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Awesome informative reply. I've long wondered about how some creators get the same "face" in some insta accounts.

You're a notional enemy until you actually invade, and then you become an actual enemy. That's how these things work, Vladdy

Jesus Christ. I've never been so thankful for being a Linux noob in my life. That sounds awful.

Heads up, the bootloader cannot be unlocked if you buy a pixel through Verizon. You have to buy it straight from Google if you want to install anything custom.

Source: I have a pixel 6 pro from Verizon that I got originally thinking to try out grapheneOS.

Same. I think my neighbors would shit a brick if they ever found out that there are more guns in my house than people, that I'm a veteran, and that I vote Democrat.

I wrote a lot of star wars fanfic back 20 years ago because I was terrible at writing and couldn't afford college classes for a few semesters. I needed the practice, and the best way at the time for me to exercise that skill was forcing myself into creative writing. Those chapters and the idea of how the story would end were never finished.

In 2020, I started a DnD campaign based off those chapters, and we are still playing the same campaign. When we began, I thought I had maybe two, or maximum three years of content. Now at three years later, we are optimistically at bout 1/3 of the way through the story playing at roughly every other week.

If I had one wish, it would be to have three hours to sell the idea to Jon Favreau, because he would make it the next Star Wars saga. I've taken elements from KOTOR1, The Witcher, The Expanse, and most of the new star wars shows to create a story where my players are battling for what they believe is right, when there are no right answers.

I've been lying to my players for about three years. They believe they are bringing peace and prosperity to a shattered Republic by fighting on the side of the rebels about 1000 BBY. What they do not know is that they've been manipulated and windwashed by a sith lord into decapitating the Jedi order and acting as the admirals and generals of the rebel fleet and army.

I have been planning this for ages. All the names of recurring characters are anagrams for things like "Revan was right", "peace is a lie", and "sith lord doom", and in one part of the story, a player is actually playing his same character without knowing it, and his "new" character's name is an anagram of his original character's name.

There will come a point where he will find out he was manipulated by the story, and the other players will find out I did not tell them the whole truth of their own situation. It is going to be glorious. The party will find out they are all essentially Sith apprentices with no easy way out. And then we will get to the actual subject of the story--what it means to be a Jedi. What do you do, when everything you believed in and believed was right turns out to be a lie?

When faced with losing everything, like Obiwan Kenobi, how do you continue serving the light when it has robbed everything from you?

I 100% would rather have shit break sometimes than find windows settings that are buried several layers deep in the UI simply because Microsoft wants me to use my computer in a certain way

Not only that, but Bond has an entire agency and thousands of people supporting him and his activities. There really are things you can't do yourself while in a heated situation that have to be done.

But are you sure you don't want to make Edge your default browser??

Parentification is a form of emotional abuse. This is dangerously close to that line.

Mint is an awesome option too. For me it came down to the UI as the primary decision factor. I prefer MacOS aesthetics to Windows.

There are a host of other issues I have with how Microsoft (and Apple!!) do things, and really, the GUI is the least of those problems. But it is also the most obvious problem because I'm looking at it all day at work.

In that case, Pop!_OS might be a good option to try. It's built on Ubuntu and doesn't have snapd garbage on it. I've been using it as a daily driver for 2 years now and I've had zero problems.