So, folks who responded are conflating BIOS with UEFI. It’s a common mistake - but they are very different things that serve the same purpose.

BIOS is older technology. It usually wasn’t risky unless the board was somehow faulty, but there was always some risk because you were directly reflashing the CMOS.

UEFI is the current technology. If your board is less than 10 years old, you almost definitely have UEFI and not BIOS. It’s stored in NOR flash memory on the motherboard.

UEFI’s nature and design make it much simpler and safer to update. UEFI can be updated automatically within Linux; BIOS requires the board manufacturer’s utility to reprogram the CMOS.

I’m simplifying some of this. But this should help explain the conflicting responses of what gets updated under Linux.

Any secondhand laser printer should fit the bill.

No pun intended

Narrator: until someone else gains access

When an LCD looks like that, the panel itself is damaged. There’s no fixing it.

Clearly, a movie is a block, and not all kinds of bombs can bust blocks.

I’ve been running EndeavourOS on my my SP4. It works great with the custom Surface kernel.

Don’t buy a 4 - it has heat problems and a shitty power circuit. As long as you get a 5 or newer, it should run great.

Narrator: it’s wrong.

If this shit is the dope, yes.

But not necessarily if this shit is simply the dope.

And “this dope is the shit” means “this shit is dope.”

However, “this shit is the dope” does not mean “this dope is shit.”

Thanks for sharing this. I’m very confident with Linux, but I hadn’t thought about this!

Your blog post was concise, too. I hate scrolling forever before finding the solution.

Or, just disable the increasingly inaccurately-named “Secure Boot.”

Anything can be a dildo if you’re brave enough.

Have you tried the proton version of everything?

Ugh.

Wouldn’t Paul McCartney resist? He’s still alive.

Vivaldi or LibreWolf

All ants are black in the dark.

She (most likely), not he

See, that’s a false dichotomy.

Modern corporate America demands expansion and growth. But expansion and growth do not need to be required for innovation.

That’s where Adobe is a victim of the vulture capitalists who’ve taken it over.

That gives me pause. And it’s not quite what I said.

When you try to integrate everything into the same application, you have to make compromises. Even if they have separate workflows, you’re not optimizing a tool for a specific use. You’re creating something general-purpose.

InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator are separate applications. That allows each to fully specialize in what it does best. And each one does a hell of a lot of things that would simply bog down the other two applications.

The applications need to integrate with each other. But no single application can be excellent at literally everything.

Edit: oh, Affinity is made by Canva? Yeah, I’m not touching that shit. No reason to trade one evil empire for another.