I’m far from a power user as well. I was on Ubuntu for about 5 years. Also installed it on my dads laptop a few years ago. Last week I installed Debian for myself and dad. It was easy. Its also very nice to use, I have a ancient shit laptop and it runs with absolutely no problems at all. My dad’s been happy with it as well.

I wont tell you to do what you don’t want to, I just want to let you know that installing and setting up, for example, Debian is not difficult at all. If a moron like me can do it, so can you :)

Come on OP, tells us the opinion you said that got you banned from where ever you came from.

Was it about lower taxation, deregulation? Somehow I have a feeling it wasn’t.

And they would ban him for that

I’m a introverted Finn. So… nope.

100% all of that.

I have these winter boots, got them from my dad. My dad bought them in early 1980s. They have a thing that lets you attach them to traditional skis. I use them during the winter for hiking and forest skiing. When the snows melt I take them to a cobbler and tell him to do a service when he has the time. I pick them up during the spring. They are getting on a bit, but I bet I can still get 3-5 years out of them.

I’ve been using Librewolf for about a month now, today I ran into the first problem, a website was blank but that fixed itself when I closed the tab and opened it again. I’ve been very happy with it so far. Sad to hear you ran into troubles.

If you don’t mind how it looks, as long as it works, check out James Channel on youtube. Dude cuts circuit boards with a angle grinder etc. Goes to show that you don’t necessarily need to be careful… as long as you know what and how to fix. And if you have a lot of hot glue.

Yup. But if only 10% of those people decide to go fix a thing, instead of buying a new one, I guess that’s a win.

Haha yup. Either a hobby or a way to make youtube videos. The amount of channels where people just fix things and they have millions of views is a good sign… I just hope it evolves into people starting to think about this whole fixing of things and not just watch youtube videos.

Yeah I do that a lot. Luckily I have tools and some skills so I can do a lot of fixing myself. My current clothes washing machine was given to me, the shock absorbers had let the liquids out. I put some new O-rings in and a bit of hydraulic fluid. Its been working fine for 3 years now lol.

Yeah I have like 8 different ones. I have a fancy Mitutoyo in a nice wooden box that I use on special occasions and a whole bunch of others that are more or less beat up. I use the digital one’s for quick checks on stuff like brake disc thickness, where it doesnt matter if its off by 0.05mm etc

I don’t remember who it was, some youtube person, who said that he talks to chagpt when he goes to sleep. Like he goes to bed and starts chatting with the bot until he falls asleep. Thats completely bonkers to me.

Probably half a generation even. When I was a kid fixing things was normal. I remember when all the small electronic shops started to disappear. Only to be replaced by mobile phone screen switch shops lol.

I have one of those digital measurement calipers. I dropped it and the screen went wonky. I took it apart, one of the zebra connectors had moved a bit. Put it back in place, put the thing back together and I’m back to measuring with it. Didn’t cost anything except maybe 30 minutes of time.

I love the feeling of fixing shit.

Buy a thing, it stops working, throw the thing away, buy a new thing.

Seems like nobody fixes shit anymore. And yes, I know, companies make things as unfixable as possible. But I’m a weirdo who would rather pay a lot to fix a thing than throw it into the ocean and buy a new thing.

That’s mostly a American society thing though :P

Where I am, the government sends you a paper that has the tax %, you give that to your employer and they take the amount from your pay and send it to the government. If you have deductions you fill out a form and send it to the government.

I hope the Swiss was consenting to you slicing them up

Good advice. :)

Luckily its easy for me to avoid Walmart, I think the closest one is several thousand kilometers away. :D And I’m already a snob about olive oil so I got that one covered as well :) IIRC, theres a middle-east specialized spice/food shop fairly near me, I’ll go check their selection.

Excellent suggestion. I’ve been meaning to try something new. Thai and Italian is starting to get boring after 20 years.

Finnish :)

https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesirinkeli