Yeah I’ve always been a very casual Linux enthusiast (key word is casual) since I was a teen. Setup and things “just working” out of the box have absolutely never been the case, even in 2024, and even though people like to say it does. In an ideal situation on an ideal computer with ideal hardware, you don’t have to tweak anything. But for most people, there are going to be some annoying issues and tweaks you have to work through.

If a Linux system has already been set up and tested for the end user, then it is a great alternative. But in my experience, these systems absolutely never work perfectly out of the box and it takes some technical know how to get to that point. Ever since Windows 7, Windows has “just worked” out of the box… especially because it comes pre-loaded on your device.

I have been dealing with some issues with my Bluetooth module in Windows. I had eventually solved the problem, but the fix seemed to have reverted itself somewhat recently. Annoyed, I thought I’d finally commit to a switch to Linux on my daily driver since my laptop doesn’t support Win 11. Well, I chose Linux Mint since it doesn’t use Wayland which for some reason has poor compatibility with my common Logitech mouse. Everything had been fine but then I found instead of the Bluetooth module crashing like in Windows, which just makes me have to reset the module, the entire system crashes in Linux instead and requires me to reboot it. Frustrating to say the least.

And then, as you’ve brought up, gaming on Linux is just generally not a good experience unless you have all of your games on Steam.

Linux can be awesome but it’s absolutely not for everyone…especially people with less technical knowledge (unless it is set up for them), people who want something to “just work” without any fiddling, or people who do a lot of gaming outside of Steam.

Damn you’re right…I should install arch

You don’t need to leave a crazy amount of space when stopped at a traffic light, but you still should be leaving some. So if someone rear ends you, it minimizes the risk of your car then smashing into the person in front of you, so it reduces the risk of additional people being involved in an accident.

Seriously this reads like a sketch. Maybe a Seinfeld one where they all talk about it afterwards lol

That’s what I’m thinking and hoping it likely is! I can’t totally rule out the possibility that it’s also leaking through the hairline chips, but they don’t seem deep enough to cause that. More than likely it’s just the tub drain itself like you said!

Yes you have the situation correct! I wasn’t sure if it was even the tub or not at first because it took multiple hours for the dripping to subside. I posted this a bit too early …it was definitely the tub and the dripping has finally stopped.

I assumed it was the seal around the tub drain leaking slowly, but I didn’t think about the hairline crack thing. Upon careful examination of the tub basin, there are a bunch of small hairline scratches or possible cracks in the basin near the drain. I didn’t realize that could happen tbh. Was hoping it was the drain because that seemed like an easier fix but now I’m not sure if it really is the basin itself leaking. Is there a way I can determine whether or not the scratches are cosmetic or whether or not this is the source of the leak?

Either way, I’m glad it’s not an immediate emergency!

That’s an interesting theory. I’m not knowledgeable enough to know if that can happen. Where do you think that would cause a pipe to come loose do you think?

Thank you for your comment, but stores aren’t going to be open for a bit still. Do you have any toolless ideas in the meantime?

It’s not free standing, but I don’t see anything that resembles a panel. It’s one of those fairly standard tub/shower combos.

Currently dealing with this over the span of multiple days. I’m dying send help.

Checkmate, atheists

I’ve had automated systems just straight up hang up on me when I ask for a customer service representative instead of actually linking me to one. Because it says it “couldn’t understand me”.

I had some people install a new water heater at my place. They turned off what was labeled as the water heater at the breaker and proceeded to change out the heater.

I noticed later that it seemed odd that the AC hadn’t cycled on all day. Eventually realized the circuit breaker was mislabeled.

The guys doing the water heater replacement were working on a live line and I guess they didn’t bother to check with a multimeter. Jesus. They didn’t get hurt/killed thankfully.

What’s wrong with liking both form and function in an item? Especially because I hardly use a mouse or keyboard in a way that I would call it a “tool” like a power drill. That’s great if you need something like that, but a lot of us are more casual users and would appreciate something that matches our taste when it’s displayed on a desk all day. Your power tools don’t just sit out on your computer desk all day, do they?

I have been rocking an off brand Chinese mechanical tenkeyless (a must for my space) keyboard for 10 years now and a Logitech triathlon M720 mouse secondhand for a slightly shorter amount of time. A great combo for me and the keyboard can be lighted or off in any color I choose. It doesn’t constantly strobe at you unless you want it to.

I agree that modern smartphones are too big, but that’s what the vast majority of the options are nowadays. I don’t know if you can call it a “gimmick” anymore if literally all of them are like that. It’s getting harder and harder to find a reasonably sized phone. But believe me, if I didn’t have a folding phone, I’d be looking out for small phones like the Zen phone.

? Just because it’s not practical for everyone doesn’t mean it’s “just a gimmick”.

Modern smartphones are freaking gigantic. Women’s pants pockets are comically tiny. Modern smartphones physically would not fit in the majority of my pants. I bought a Z Flip so I could fit a modern phone in my pants and not be forced to carry around a purse.

The length is important for women’s pants pockets, not necessarily the thickness. It is practical for me. No, it’s not practical for everyone.

Now I’m wondering what that looks like. Personally, sometimes I find having something a bit loud is fun!

I suppose that’s possible, but I didn’t see the word “Bitlocker”. Would that not necessarily appear on screen? It just asked for a product key, which I thought was odd.

It wasn’t blocking me from logging into Windows (which would blue screen though). It was instead blocking me from using certain recovery options.

Edit: After some digging, that is likely what it was even thought it didn’t say Bitlocker on the screen. From screenshots, it looks like it occasionally doesn’t say that. Would make sense for security purposes and I’m sure many companies had something like that enabled. It made fixing the whole ordeal a much more slow and manual process though instead of just giving users some instructions!

Also sorry idk who downvoted you!

For context, I do not work in anything remotely close to an IT department. I work in a hospital. This affected my work the other day too. I am a bit more tech savvy than some of my coworkers, so I was attempting to see if I could fix the issue on my own by reverting to the previous windows update in recovery mode.

However, doing so prompted me for a Windows product key, which I obviously didn’t have because I didn’t install Windows on that computer.

The IT department had to come around individually for every single affected computer. They had to manually look up and type out the unique Windows product key for every single affected computer in order to be able to fix the problem.

Not sure if most installs of Windows act that way or not, but it definitely made the process more manual and annoying than it had to be. I have no idea why many of the recovery options required me to look up and enter a Windows product key. Seemed very odd to me and just made the ordeal more manual and time consuming than it had to be.

I believe some hospitals even ended up having to cancel surgeries.

Honestly a lot of us on here talk about being lonely so…