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食 Shoku the Umbreon
@TheMNWolf@furry.engineer
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Lv 42 retired guardian angel from Minnesota (shocking, I know). Maker, gamer, self-proclaimed chef, part-time mad scientist, adjunct virtual spaceship pilot for Medrunners. Unhealthy amounts of silly, not a significant source of vitamin C. He/him, pan + single + looking.
Found the correct USB port. I'm just going to completely replace it rather than try to repair this one with the broke tab.
Well my "new" racing wheelbase has arrived. It was described in the eBay listing as non-working, for parts only. Well, I do believe I have identified the source of the issue. Not the easiest repair I have ever attempted, but I think it is well within my abilities. If this works, I just got a $500 wheel for about 100 bucks. #simpit
Most days I'm not even awake yet. Today, I'm already home from my first delivery block. I like it, it's nice and dark. The moon's out. It's peaceful and I don't have to talk to anyone.
Nothing like sharing an elevator with the fastest quantum drive in the game... #starcitizen
Linux in a Bit
What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?
Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.
The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.
They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.
We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.
Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.
The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it. 
And as an added bonus, the lower portion of my bumper is no longer mostly detached. Now it is only partly detached. Those screws are even harder to reach, I don't even know if I'm going to bother with them.
I have the (pneumatic) powerrrrr!
While I'm waiting for a route to pop up, I went ahead and took out the old blower and I can verify that's the issue. The brushes wore down so much that they actually severed the copper connections to them.
One more light design that I had come up with. I just didn't have enough modules printed at the time to lay it out. I am close to being able to test these, but I'm waiting on the 4-pin DuPont connectors which I think are supposed to arrive Friday.
