Just because it's red hot does not mean it's near molten. The material still has sufficient proprieties to support its weight.

Wow. Just...wow.

I love it when they serve 2 per taco. The filing is always more than enough for 1, so I split it across the extra tortilla. Double tacos FTW!

I'd lean toward the way you have it now. I like having the owner profile as my daily driver. Any app that I have doubts about gets its own profile.

If you haven't already, check out the Graphene forum and search for profiles. There have been lots of discussions about this, and you'll find some good examples for various privacy/security needs.

I've had the opposite experience. I'm on a Pixel 8 running Graphene. So far today (8.5 hours since last charge), I'm at 87%. The screen time meter says 90 minutes of screen time since last charge. I've been running Bluetooth for about 4 hours, and WiFi full time.

I'd typically be under 60% at this point when I was on stock Android.

I mean, have you seen these things? It's entirely possible the monstrosity doesn't fit in the garage!

You mean the AI that was trained on Reddit shitposts will be helping advance science? The AI that recommended putting glue on pizza, and that you won't fall off a cliff if you just keep waking?

What could go wrong?

I have to ask... Are you actually happy with Kodi? Did you find a way to make it more usable?

I set it up on a RPi, got Netflix and Amazon working on it, and I really, REALLY wanted to like it...

But I just can't. The interface is awful. The sorting is nonsensical. You have to manually enable thumbnails. You can change it, but you have to change it for every interface. And then it doesn't remember, so you have to go through all that again the next time you use it.

Sorry if I sound whiny, but I'd love to know if you got it to be more usable than I could.

Haha, that's a good call. I certainly should have. I was pretty new with the torch so I suppose I was focused on the task at hand.

And it was just the tip™️. The last inch or 2 on the fork of a small lift won't make a lot of noise compared to the torch.

I was using the forks as a workbench to cut a piece of 1/2" steel with an acetylene torch. I thought I had enough overhang to make it work.

Those forks ended up about 1.5" shorter after I finished my cut.

We each have our own checking account. We also have a joint account. Each of us receives our paychecks in our personal account. We each keep a small portion in our personal accounts for each month for personal expenses, gifts, etc. The rest goes into the joint account.

We set up credit cards the same way. This gives us the means to buy gifts for each other without the other knowing. It also provides redundancy for lost cards.

We can both see the joint accounts. We cannot see each other's personal accounts. Our bank has it set up so I can see everything I have access to on a single online account.

This arrangement has been working well for years.

For my money, it's Puscifer > Tool > APC.

Don't get me wrong, they're all great in their own forms!

Interest, meet conflict.

Yes, yes it is.

...and nothing of value was lost.

My desire to distance myself from Copilot led me to start using Libre. It was a surprisingly easy transition.

While it doesn't feel as polished as MS Office, I find that it has everything I need. It also allows more control for customisations. Now, a few months later, I prefer using Libre over MS.

I honestly haven't noticed a difference.

Me too. I have a Brother printer. When I first set it up, Windows printed everything in inverse black and white until I hunted down the correct driver. Windows also never figured out how to wake it up, so I always had to manually wake it up. And it simply never worked with the scanner.

Linux got everything right without me having to fuss with anything.

I installed Graphene OS. Loving it so far.

I think LLM's are incredibly useful in limited circumstances. But it needs to be on-demand, NOT omnipresent.

For example, I'm learning a bit of C#. I was following a tutorial a few weeks ago that had some code I didn't understand. I spent an hour googling and reading documentation, but found nothing. I headed to ChatGPT and asked it what it meant. It gave a clear, easy to understand explanation.

Unfortunately, the industry is going about this all wrong. Google wants to force Gemini on my Pixel. So I nuked Android. Microsoft silently installed Copilot on my laptop without consent. That laptop is now happily running Linux.

Forcing these tools on people will just alienate people like me. In a way, I'm glad it happened. I'm much more satisfied now that these companies are minimized in my life.