I’ve never installed Mint, but I’ve had a patriot memory stick go bad, and the RMA process involved sending both sticks to Patriot. Never buying from that garbage company again…

Yup, get a recovery/tool ISO and run a memory test.

For me, it was the lack of support for certain Wi-Fi cards. I had to pull an older Wi-Fi card out of an old Chromebook, because no flavor of Linux supported the card that came with the (Windows 11) laptop. And guess who has two thumbs and no Ethernet port…

Finally got it working, but at one point i was almost willing to have a USB tether to my phone, just so i wouldn’t have to fight with windows anymore.

Edit: Just realized it said desktop, but my desktop also has Wi-Fi, i just haven’t had the courage to switch fully from my Spectre Win 10 install…

“Just Jeeves it” doesn’t quite roll off the tongue…

The only “creation” I’ve tried to do is a cover letter for job hunting. If I needed something other than a resume, portfolio AND references, then I see nothing wrong with using one to do work that another ai is going to look at… Just my $0.02

Should’ve prayed harder.

“freedom of speech” means the government can’t arrest you for your views. It doesn’t mean the rest of us have to listen…

Whenever i search for a problem now, most of the posts that contain actual answers are more than a year old, and increasingly out dated.

Fortunately, Lemmy is tech savvy and small enough that I can ask questions without worrying about the down vote brigade.

Same.

Bought a Blu-ray burner and “archive grade” disks for third location backups.

I made a list of files that is just a text document (3MB!) that sits on the root of the Blu-ray. There’s probably a better way of doing that, but it works for me.

Yup, found on my phone yesterday.

It also claimed that i was part of the beta program, which is probably how they back-doored it in, so make sure you leave the beta program to keep it from coming back.

DNA digital data storage

Using dna to encode digital data has been shown to be stable, reliable and easily reproducible. And according to Wikipedia, there’s a technique that can encode data at 1Mbps. Not lightning fast by any stretch, but it works!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_digital_data_storage

Ah, yeah I’ve never been “in demand”, unless you count the straight girls that needed the “gay best friend”.

He’s basically got “young and hot” syndrome. Middle age is going to be a bitch…

Gay guy checking in…

Holy forking shirtballs, who hurt him!?

Nope, reduced by 10%, leaving you with 90% of the original quantity.

“Could of…”

It’s “could have”!

Edit: I’m referring to text based things, like text and email. I can pretty much ignore the mispronouncing.

Warning: Product manufactured at a facility that also uses AI.

Thanks, i just had it stuffed!

To answer the post title and ignoring the wall of text:

Long vacations in other countries. You’re not ready to be away from “everything” for that long, and culture shock is a thing, even for us woke lefties…

The only SoundCloud artist i listen to: https://youtu.be/vbEIhOUK0SY?si=t-3GWyIdNrgpYZbw

(Smiling Friends clip)

Yup. US post office and any physical check has a special ocr friendly font, so the non-computer ocr systems could work.