I tried this out and it's a good launcher once configured, but it's time to look for a new one now. Msft is working hard to lose long time customers.

Both are bloated, but I'll take flatpaks, as snaps have given me a lot of problems on multiple machines. I now just remove it entirely.

I believe this has easily swappable battery packs. That feature alone makes so much sense it could give them an edge.

Thanks to you, cinnamon toast cocktails are a thing I have just now learned about

Beef would be much more expensive if not for the huge subsidies, it's artificially cheap. Maybe we just stop doing that and see how it goes.

Consider that what we read online as news is becoming close to 50% generated or created by bots. Dipping in now and then, but mostly avoiding doesn't seem an unreasonable approach, and breaks the dopamine machine.

I installed mint on my second PC, and it's great. I feel like migrating my main, but I'm not sure it would go smoothly. I've had a lot of issues with my four months old Ubuntu install, lately the keyboard is nonfunctional at the login screen about half the time. Snaps are another reason making me want to leave it behind.

Looks like a tug or two is in use...maybe that should be required from now on for areas where a screw up can take out major infrastructure?

An old I Love Lucy episode comes to mind, it's got to be tough! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZV40f0cXF4

It's not AI, instead think of it as a search with data mined pattern matching behind a chatbot. Marketing types are so stupidly fixated they can't figure out that over hyping something can cause disappointment and enough skepticism to kill any desire to use a product. It's a lot easier to see the usefulness of something without that kind of noise.