BearOfaTime

Historically max $100. Recently had to go to $180 for a Pixel.

I refuse to pay more than $200

Wrong in so many ways.

Yes, diets primarily work by caloric deficit. But if you eat nothing but Snickers and maintain a calory deficit you're gonna have a bad time.

You should read up in low carb, something doctors have recommended for diabetic patients since the 1930's, because of how metabolism works (specifically glycemic response to specific macro nutrients).

This chart is meaningless.

If anyone wants a better layman's understanding, read "The Zone" by Barry Sears (a biochemist). Don't read any other books of his, just the first one from the early 90's.

Upholstery shops do thibgs like boat seats, convertible tops, commercial seating, etc. Should be one in your city.

You can also look for local car groups - those guys will know all the shops that do car stuff.

And people wonder why I don't let automatic updates happen?

Not really - that information would have to be stored off-device, as anything on-device would be destroyed by a factory reset.

At best you can see the age of a device - when it was manufactured or perhaps sold. Which for most purposes is good enough. For example, the battery is probably the most sensitive component, with time being a significant measure of its life, along with usage/usage patterns.

Hahahahaha

Yea, this has been an issue for 20 years, at least.

Manufacturers make it difficult as possible to retrieve any more than basic codes.

It's the constant cat-and-mouse game, and why I bought a very expensive code reader 15 years ago.

Really good point on power consumption.

That said, any space heater I've used that draws 10A can't heat water to boiling in 1 minute.

So I guess something about how a microwave delivers that energy matters in this equation? (I'm thinking distance from the emitter).

It's not even AI.

This garbage started in the 90s,and has never worked right.

Ticket Bastard

From all the comments it looks like it's quite a challenge to go native Linux.

One option, run a VM using KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine, native to some distros).

You can install Windows IOT LTSC (Long-term Servicing Channel), which receives only security updates 2x/year, no others. It also doesn't have all the bloat. It's what I run for daily use.

Win10 LTSC. It gets updates 2x/year, has very minimal bloat.

Windows LTSC Downloads, don't forget to grab the key.

Then get O&O Shutup to reduce bloat even more (mostly just to limit telemetry on Windows).

And you can permanently license it using Microsoft's own scripts. - Scripts on Github.

At one time you could directly launch apps in VMs using SeamlessRDP, I'm not sure if that still works or if there's something new.

As others have said, wtf is wrong with the school - requiring OneDrive? FFS

No, they misspoke.

Literally means literally:

1530s, "in a literal sense, according to the exact meaning of the word or words used,"