My SSD from 2009 still reports having most of its life left. I used it heavily for around a decade before retiring it as my system drive.

You’ll be fine. A quality SSD is very unlikely to “wear out” from standard use.

Yeah, older printers’ extruders had some trouble with TPU, but TPU use similar temperature ranges to PLA.

It’s worth a shot, at least.

If you know anybody who 3D prints, that may offer a solution.

I’ve printed custom wire reinforcements in TPU. They are very flexible, and they will take the strain off the wire itself.

Any crimped or soldered joint is going to be a weak point. So if you can’t find something strong enough? Make it!

If you don’t know anyone who has one, you could check thingiverse.com and printables.com for a model that meets your needs, and there are plenty of print services who will make them for you.

I just assumed you lived in a multi-story house.

On top of this:

In the UEFI, make sure the Linux/grub drive is the first boot device.

Yeah, I’m not panicking, but I agree with everything you said.

I want to believe that someone at IBM realizes what they lost if they fuck up Red Hat, but I’m sure we all know better than to count on it.

It’s just a bummer we have to have this conversation at all. Even when a corporation tries to start out on the right foot, odds are stacked in favor of enshittifying.

Yeah, I agree. The big picture is concerning, though this latest instance just happens to not be a red flag. We’re not enshittified yet, but it’s a short jump depending on IBM’s next decisions.

Considering Red Hat’s core is development, it’s not necessarily a bad thing to merge things like legal, HR, finance, and accounting with IBM’s own departments.

The trouble is, once the parent company starts merging some departments, shareholders often push to merge more departments.

If the right people hold sway at IBM, Red Hat won’t continue that route to the point of fucking up the OS. But that’s a big “if.”

Probably no need to rush into anything. It sounds like the reorg is moving a data security team into Red Hat, and isn’t necessarily enshittifying anything.

A backup plan is always good, but this could wind up being a nothingburger.

GIF is way too short to be German.

“Treaded tires are more dangerous to drive with than bald ones.”

No, it was just a low-quality hand-me-down that started to bend and lost part of one of its claws.

I recently replaced my hammer because it wore out.

Real Japanese knives are all BIFL. Japanese bladesmiths take pride in quality above all else.

My MAC knives are older than I am.

Someone here has never cleaned out a litterbox.

I don’t own one, and I don’t plan to buy one.

But I love it because it’s enabled Linux support for basically every game I could want.

So now, outside of work, I can have a blissfully Windows-free existence.

By “Silicon Valley” I assume they mean the racist bastards running many big tech companies?

Probably an updated/different driver that came pre-loaded in the new installer.

Even at that age, some computers can do plenty.

I built my “old” gaming desktop in 2009. It currently runs Linux with Plasma. I still use it to do 3D modeling for 3D printing.

They seem to be Italian.

MX is a branch off antiX, and they put “anti-fascist” at the top of their homepage.

I’m happy that KDE defines “smart” as “hey user, you probably don’t need this.”

As opposed to Apple’s “the system is going to predict things to make your life easier, and will be wrong much of the time.”