The issue is the heat sealing of the sole to the welt.

Typical Goodyear wilted shoes have a removable sole that separate from the welt. However, modern Docs use heat to melt the sole and welt together, creating a permanent bond.

It doesn’t interfere. High quality boots just don’t use them.

What brand are your boots?

Link? I’d honestly like to see that.

It’s not that it’s better by itself. It’s that zippers don’t exist on good boots.

Can’t really tell you why.

Here’s the thing: quality Goodyear welted boots do not come with zippers. Zippers are a sign of cheap, crappy boots.

No zippered boots will be BIFL.

So, what do you do if you don’t want to have to deal with laces?

Chelsea boots. https://thursdayboots.com/products/womens-duchess-black-chelsea-boot

I collect and restore shoes, and I can tell you all about construction + types of leather + what truly makes a boot last a lifetime. Feel free to ask me all your questions.

Yeah, I was gonna say. I use the Pro2 with Bazzite via Bluetooth. There is no dongle, it’s just a Bluetooth controller.

Does the controller show up in your Bluetooth panel? Is it pairing successfully?

I’ve been using Bazzite for months.

If it’s a gaming PC, you want the OS to be stable and reliable. Bazzite is that.

Not saying your other choices aren’t, just that there’s no reason to be afraid of Bazzite.

Remove the AI. Problem solved!

You’re better off getting an 8bitdo controller with Hall or TMR sticks.

Of course the search is scientifically feasible.

Searching is literally something that many, many scientists do.

No, because corporations know it’s more profitable to throw away a working device and replace it with a new one.

Because they don’t fuck the leather.

And if only if it was just 1 mm thicker, or maybe 2, the battery could have been user replaceable.

In the mechanic’s defense, it’s a Mercedes.

That sounds like something a bot would say.

Study anatomy. Go to live model drawing sessions. And draw, draw, draw.

Yoursgrub

What?

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.