I just want real Pokemon battles and an easier way to sort by appraisal.

Why? Win+C launches Copilot already, if you want to use it. It’s simple enough currently, why change it? This will just make everything worse.

I wouldn’t call $250 “a few bucks.” That’s over 10% of the cost of my motorcycle which I’ve been saving for for a couple years. That $250 would be all for a glorious 10 minutes of driving one car, vs a year of riding my motorcycle for hundreds of hours.

As a car enthusiast, the Uber one would be a dream. I could drive any car, including all the supercars and hypercars.

Windows 11 has irked me on my main laptop. I still use it due to various applications (not just games) that require Windows, but the slowness of the OS and the tracking drive me away from it. I installed Linux on another drive on the laptop.

Additionally, I purchased a desktop from my friend, and completely wiped Windows from it to install Linux (KDE Neon). I realized there is nothing that I’d want from that desktop, possibly aside from a couple of games my more powerful laptop can run, that Linux cannot run.

I think foldables have found a niche market at the moment. People buy them, just not in the quantities the companies might want.

The main reasons for this are Samsung being stagnant on its innovation with foldables (Z flip 5 notwithstanding), much of the competition being limited to China only or aren’t being marketed at all, and the book style foldables all being overpriced (they still MSRP for $1700-$1800 plus 1000% storage markups, they should be aiming for a $1200-$1300 MSRP).

Here in the US, we have:

The usual Samsung foldables: The Z flip 5 which is a great device at on okay price, and I’ve seen a few of these (or the previous gens), notable because 85% of the devices I see are iPhones. The Z Fold 5 is stagnant and overpriced.

Pixel Fold: Hahahahaha it can’t even last a week before the screen dies lol lol haha

Moto Razr Flip 40 and its variations: Nobody knows that these phones exist, and the ones who do struggle to even find a place to buy the phone. On Amazon listing for the US version is blended with the international listings and is often out of stock, and Motorola’s website gives me an error when I try to get to the buying process on its phones. Also there’s like 3 different versions of this phone Real shame, because they are good phones for a great price if you can stomach the poor battery life.

OnePlus Open: Possibly the most innovative phone of 2023, this phone 1-ups the Z Fold line in nearly every way, although it’s still pricey. But again, basically nobody has even heard of this brand, much less this phone. They just believe Samsung is the only one that makes foldables while they choose to buy the latest iPhone.

I actively participated in Reddit before the killing of the Third Party Apps, because I really liked the content and the platform was a superb experience on a third party app.

There’s some of that, but even in the open dining hall space I get terrible Internet speeds, even when it isn’t particularly crowded there.

Currently I’m a college student, so I don’t have my own router but I use my university WiFi. And that frequently goes below 1mbps.

Good. I almost never need speeds in excess of those possible with WiFi 2, and 90% of the time WiFi 1 speeds are enough, but very often my speeds drop below 1mbps, rendering accessing the Internet on my phone or tablet essentially useless.

I have a theory that they want you to get so annoyed that you suck it up and pay for premium.

Instead, I decreased my YouTube consumption, turned on my adblocker for low-quality content, or content from an unmonetized creator, or content showing something technically illegal (game OSTs or a motorcycle review involving going 2x the speed limit), and donated to some patreons and purchased a year of Nebula.

Remember, the reason I ditched Reddit wasn’t the ads per se, it was the constant data selling, and the official app just getting worse and worse with unwanted “features” pushed on everyone. They kept getting greedier and greedier so when they disabled 3rd party apps I ditched Reddit.

Most of the mdadm commands look like some kind of wizard’s spell to a noob like me. I have no idea what I’m actually doing with the commands.

The thing is that I’m not primarily running the computer as a NAS. It’s a used computer with a desktop OS and with two used 2TB HDDs, so I want the redundancy.

One of the 240 million would’ve possibly been my friend’s “old” gaming PC with a Ryzen 9 3900X, that he said could not upgrade to Windows 11. He sold it to me for cheap and I put KDE Neon on it. So far, it’s running smoothly except for the challenge of trying to automate mounting a RAID 1 set of drives.

I used nano to edit /etc/fstab and commented out the last line and the system booted into GUI mode!

This leaves me with some questions:

1. Why does fstab fail to mount the NTFS raid array?
2. Why does the raid array failing to mount block the EDID signal? It’s not like the OS lives on the raid array.
3. How do I properly mount the raid array and how do I automate it every boot if I can’t use fstab?

The ease of making a RAID array!

I wanted to set up two used hard drives in RAID 1, and the only way to do that was through obscure command line stuff. I tried following a tutorial but I would always divert from it somehow. So I turned to ChatGPT, and it seemed to set it up fine, but then when I tried to reboot, I couldn’t enter a GUI, even though the OS booted from a separate SSD.

I have a feeling this list would be very different if motorcycle brands were in the mix as well.

Didn’t the courts strike down his student loan forgiveness plan? If you support the plan, blame the courts, not Biden.

How do I edit /etc/fstab if I’m not even able to boot the system? Or am I already booted in the system, just in a CLI environment?