Lol I rarely get many good days without pain in between. It just repeated again. It’s always like this. Anyways have a great week too. Hopefully you’re at least able to have it

I have exactly the same issue (though in my case sometimes there are artifacts instead of just a black screen). I would love a solution but I never found one unfortunately

APT doesn’t have parallel downloads by default either. But in my case it’s still 100 times faster than DNF, especially in terms of fetching. As I remember, once I had to wait for like 10 MINUTES to install htop on a Fedora live ISO. That’s why I gave Fedora and DNF itself a big red DNF and started using Arch btw

You don’t know how far people from poor countries can go to save money. Some of my relatives literally buy everything non-critical there

Don’t do that. Many malicious actors can put malware on Aliexpress tech products and sell it to get credit card information, create a botnet (similar to gaining remote access) or spy on you for the government

Hmm then I’m almost sure it’s working in UEFI mode. I’d say try another USB stick

Wow that is an engine and a half. I’m wondering how it handles the torque load though

Bruh that insurance makes no sense. Hopefully it will die soon and finally allow people to buy cars they want

1. How old is your computer’s motherboard?
2. Aliexpress=questionable. You don’t need more facts. Getting something cheap always comes with a risk

I have a cheap USB drive that doesn’t work as a bootable medium too (except for Ubuntu and maybe some other specific distros). Though I suspect this issue apppeared after I dropped it from like 1.3 meters height. Anyways it can be a malfunction or your drive just doesn’t properly support it. What is your hardware though? Are you sure you need the UEFI mode and not the legacy BIOS mode?

Oh I forgot about insurance. But here where I live there’s a different kind of it which is extremely cheap afaik so it’s not much of a factor. And yea all of that makes sense. I’m just not a fan of SUVs I guess

That is a hard choice

Hmm that sounds like an interesting choice. Why did you pick it instead of a Range Rover or something?

V2.0: if you don’t want your hardware spying on you, get a device that has fully FOSS drivers and an open architecture (neither AMD nor Intel have that cuz they use x86_64 which is proprietary). I think Raspberry Pi and PinePhone have that. Not sure though. And if you meant microphone and camera spying on you then apps, ISP and everything else do matter. Just unplug that devices when you want to stay private and that’s it

If you want to be absolutely sure, the only way is to unplug all the network cables and physically break or disconnect all the wireless equipment. If you have a SIM card, the carrier can automatically install spyware. On the computer you can get malware or the bootloader/UEFI can be compromised. There are many other ways to spy as well, especially if it’s a targeted attack (done by the local law enforcement or your own enemy). The Internet was never meant to be private. It’s really hard to keep any data secure on a machine that has access to it. You can minimize the risk and decrease it by 1000000% but you can’t completely mitigate it unfortunately

Might I ask what model is it?

It’s only Monday but ok. This week started quite good actually. I’m still about to cry very often but at least I can talk to my best friend again and that’s just great. Also nothing very bad happened yet and I still can watch YouTube and TV shows all day as I always do so hey it’s already much better than the last week. Sorry for not saying as much as other people. I’m just almost completely lifeless and I’m going through a lot now so yea not much “normal” stuff to say

Nice idea for fun and diversity (you can’t prohibit people to make such apps after all) but in daily usage? No, no, no and no

I can only use one sentence to comment this: when the imposters are sus

Increase the space between the 2 network speed indicator things. 9.8/10 10/10. I don’t see any issues except for that one. Btw what’s that calculator app?