That’s legit the reason why Lara Croft is the star of Tomb Raider.

Do you actually own the TV or one with that same stand? 3/3 people I know, plus OP had to do something extra to make that stand work. That’s bad design. Maybe not for the bottom line of the company, but definitely for the customer.

Functionally the stand is garbage too even if you do have a massive surface. It’s not at all adjustable and it can easily damage your table if it shifts at all.

But I guess, expecting a product to work out of the box without third party add-ons like a VESA stand or needing to cut grooves in a wooden block to keep it from toppling over is “entitled” now.

I have the same TV and built a custom stand for it. Doesn’t change the fact that the included stand is a bad design.

Mint.

I switched a friend from Ubuntu to Fedora specifically because the partition setup during Fedora install is so good. (It was during a new build)

You can donate to Mozilla, and I do. https://donate.mozilla.org/en-GB/

A lot of people will have to donate a lot to equal the amount they are getting from Google though, and if Google pulls that money I feel that Firefox would end before people donate enough to make up the shortfall.

That touchscreen plays ads loudly as well.

It’s a Bananus Goldus Flutterus

https://donkeykong.fandom.com/wiki/Banana_Bird

The bus picked me up at 6:30 AM and I had extracurriculars, so I didn’t get home from the late bus until after 5:30 PM. I’d almost always have an hour or two of homework too, but usually I could get it done on the bus or during other classes. But not always.

Then there is the puberty and hormones, plus the depression from not being popular or good looking, which still affects me today.

Don’t forget that you lose 3% to inflation every year, and even more when we are in hyper-inflation like we are now.

Gambling in Wall Street’s Casino is, by design, the only way to have a chance not to lose money.

That’s HP’s fault and isn’t Linux specific.

Only if you never update at all. You can still update manually on your schedule, and control when the reboot happens.

I’ve got a bluetooth steering wheel control (add on for ~$15) that adds play, pause, volume control, and next/previous track.

MP3 CDs hold about 120 songs, which is pretty much the perfect amount to be able to curate while also not have to swap out discs too often.

Imagine if they had spent that $50 million on programmers instead. They could have had the best music playing app in existence.

Company A raises prices and reports record quarterly profits. Company B is aware of this because both the price raising and quarterly profit report for Company A are public. Company B raises prices too so that they can get also get more profit. Company C either does the same thing, or there is no company C because rubber stamped mergers and acquisitions for decades have allowed a handful of companies to dominate every industry, sometimes multiple industries.

None of this is a conspiracy. It’s Econ 101 level “how things work.”

Service in Japan and South Korea is better than in American restaurants and you don’t have to bribe the staff to be nice to you. The price on the menu is usually cheaper too.

Also, pooled tips are basically a slush fund for wages since the entire point of tipping is supposed to be to reward good service and if the tip isn’t going directly to the person who provides the service, what’s the point? Ditto for any tip on a service that hasn’t even been performed yet, such as delivery services.

People in general crave the big numbers. It’s why Microsoft is so weird with Xbox naming. Having the Xbox 360 compete with the PlayStation 3 Vs “Xbox 2”.

Firefox also started inflating version numbers because the high version numbers Chrome was using made it look more updated.

That’s the same reason I do. A place for friends to hang out online free from ads and algorithms manipulating the conversation is such a rarity these days. All the features they give you for free are nice enough I don’t mind tossing them a few bucks for a theme and an animated avatar hat. Hopefully if enough of us do, we can avoid the enshittening.

That 8mb limit was annoying though. Glad they raised it.

Nearly all games work flawlessly on Linux now thanks to Steam and Proton.