That sound a pump shotgun makes.

Chi-chick.

Roommates with benefits?

Yep!

Non smoker? Free coin pouch!

It’s surprising how freeing it is to not consult anyone about anything.

Thought process is: Whelp, I’m bored of this video game. I’m going to head to the gym quick before study group.

Trying to do the same thing living with parents: You try to go to the gym. "Hey, where you headed? Gym. At this hour? Don’t you have a thing soon? Yea, I’ll be quick. You sure? What if someone shows up early? It’ll be fine mom. Ok ok, you’re an adult, I get it. Drive safe.

It’s not that they stoped me from doing anything I wanted to, but removing that minor inconvenience of haveing to know where you are, double check your reasoning, confim schedules. It’s a hidden emotional drain. A lot of times you are so used to it you don’t even know it’s there. Until it’s gone.

Want to go grab a massive borrito at 11pm? Fuck it, go. Want to try a food that you didn’t like as a kid without the peanut gallery chiming in with stories? Do it, nobody around to lovingly tease you.

It can be a little lonely at times, but oh man is it worth it. I’ve found myself at midnight, hiking in a canyon, by myself, enjoying the moment. The sort of stuff that will never happen living with parents.

It’s easier to just not do those spontaneous things with the criticism. But remove that, and you start learning more about what you like and who you are.

Yea, someone else mentioned my drum might be dying, which could explain it.

Agreed, i’m not expecting good. But I’ve had pictures come out that look like an inkjet with the worst case of dirty print head you’ve ever seen.

Yep, tried that. Made no difference. Tried linux and windows in case it was a drivers thing. No difference. Though on linux if I use a generic driver instead of the model specific one it’s marginally better and will win against the aforementioned toddler. If it took another similar jump in quality it would be in the realm of what I’d expect to come out of a laser printer for a photo. My google results only showed people complaining on brother’s forum and they responded with “use genuine brother toner”. And someone replied saying that fixed it for them.

My brother color laser is decent, but the toner is expensive. So expensive that i buy knockoff toner. Which 95% of the time is solid. Until every once in a while a kid needs something printed that’s a photo. Not sure why, but it is absolute garbage at photos. Like not even close. Streaks and bands of color everywhere. I’m not even trying fancy photo paper, just trying to get details. A caffeinated adhd toddler with fistful of crayons could do better.

But if you want to print a worksheet in color? Does fantastic.

Advantage being you only have to buy one toner cartridge and drum.

You forgot forced microsoft account.

Funny thing about linux, is it’s unenforceable. Even if you get the big distros like ubuntu onboard, someone will make FUbuntu. Even if you get the age crap into the kernel, someone will make FUKernel without it.

That’s the beauty of FOSS. Even if someone doesn’t make those things, I can. There are tons of guides on how to compile your own linux kernel and make your own linux distro.

Plus, who’s age are they going to use for the root user on 99% of the servers in the world?

5mins after a solution is proposed, some 16yr old is going to vibe-code a stub that whenever queried will return the age of 67.

Always blaming security bullshit. I anxiously await a community fork.

Next step is requiring a subscription.

It’s how you can copy/backup/sync calendar and contacts.

on my phone I installed davx5 which does the copying over to my radicale instance on my server. Then my server backs up my calendar and contacts.

When I get a new phone I can sync all of it over easily. Bonus points, google doesn’t have that data.

You can go semi-advanced mode by using regex to ignore certain line changes. Some sites require you to go super-advanced mode by using playwright running in a headless-v2 container rather than just plain text mode.

It’s nice being able to see the history of changes. Especially when there’s multiple rapidfire changes.

Maybe it’s a pretty graph/reports thing? I enjoy looking at the pihole dashboard and reviewing top blocked domains. I even look at the top allowed domains and add some to the blacklist.

Recently discovered changedetection.io. It nicely filled the need I had. I have it watching a few static forum posts for updates that are communicated that way.

Does that prevent Windows just ninja installing it in a random update?

Windows 12 could be released as early as this year and will be a modular OS, meaning users will have the option to add or remove features, aiming to provide more flexibility.

Does this mean I can remove the AI? /s

True. One thing that helps is I hate delivery apps. I only use them when work gives out gift cards. The food is always cold and garbage when I finally get it. And not using those helps save money a lot too.

Nah, we tend to either stay home or when we go out to do things on the weekends they’re quick errands and we’re right back home.