I’ve got a similar set.

Fun fact; you can get a set of like 12 metal straws pretty cheap, and at least the set I got came with silicone mouthpieces, so if you forget one somewhere you can just throw a new one in!

Which is one of many reasons why I won’t go for fast food anymore.

I’m on a low sodium diet, and have been all of my life because high blood pressure runs in the family. (I started blood pressure meds at 17 despite being an athlete with a great diet)

I used to swing by after work 2 days a week and get fries on my way home, a treat after the 12 hour days (2 days a week were 12 hrs due to how the workflow had to be).

Eventually they started being cold, and like… they aren’t any good cold… haven’t bought fast food in decades as a result, even as a treat, or when on a road trip. If my health is such a problem that you’ll punish me for asking for what I need in order to spend my money with you, you aren’t getting my money ever again.

I get it, they aren’t paid enough to give a fuck and do “extra” work, and I don’t blame the workers. That’s why I didn’t complain about cold food to management, I just stopped spending money there.

I recently read through the entire backlog of this comic and oh man it’s really good. I never remember to keep up with comics though so thanks for posting this!

Poor thing is in restraints too. I don’t mind leaving them out if they can access decent shelter from the weather, but this is just cruel.

I have a fan back chair very similar to hers. It was my mom’s. She always referred to it as the morticia chair. She was big on Halloween and Adam’s family and stuff (married my dad on Halloween dressed as Frankenstein and the bride of Frankenstein)

What you mean you don’t enjoy the challenge of going through page after page of solutions, going “hmm, that doesn’t quite look right/make sense/sound familiar but I’ll try it any- oh, the dependencies are missing, well nvm on this option…”?

Rice and vermicelli is rice and pasta, and it’s wildly common, especially the cheap bagged side dish stuff.

So I guess I do.

It’s the best way to ensure the resale market sucks, at least. As well as getting people to pay up for replacement parts/devices or upgrade sooner.

I have a perfectly good phone, babied all to hell, lives in a case and never comes out, the works.

Well it must have fallen at some point and caught the camera bump. The lenses are fine, thankfully, but it caused spider webbing of the back glass. I didn’t even know it happened until I saw cracks through my liquid case. Possibly months later.

Resale value now significantly lower for essentially no reason. Almost like they designed the whole thing to be as fragile as possible.

Good news! I got fedora silverblue to install, tho not bazzite directly, and rebased to bazzite and it seems to be working. Figured what’s the worst that could happen if I tried, you know?

Anyway thanks for all the help!

I don’t have another flash drive big enough for this, no. The other one I have is 8gb and the utility says it requires 10, but I have been using the back ports. I’ll try again with one of the bottom ones and a bazzite install since I would need to remake the fedora one anyway. I had tried that previously but before having a workable display.

And hey, this kinda stuff happens whenever I try to do something a bit new. I refer to myself as the walking incarnation of Murphy’s law. I’m used to it 😊 it sucks for sure but I’m used to it lol (and I do tend to learn quite a bit in the process so not a total loss)

Ok, so update from yesterday; I had to stop.

Anyway the new bazzite stuff didn’t work. Fedora live test environment sort of worked but it failed at 4.8%, which is identical to another issue I saw saying it has to do with windows and if you make it on Linux it should work.

Also to answer those other questions at the bottom - voltage and temp readings are normal, psu was a replacement for one that burned out and is 700w so it should be more than enough. The parts should all be compatible, pcpartpicker said they are, but no, I don’t know that they are for sure. Still, my old Ubuntu install loads just fine, tho with some minor errors. Wouldn’t that mean everything does work?

Ah, actually no this is an error I came across before, and the help article said using dd mode on Rufus or the etcher program should fix it, so I’m going to try that again with etcher, and see if it does. Like I said getting a screen saying kernel panic is big progress! It beats the lingering black screen (probably from it actually working but not displaying, like you said)

I don’t have another actual monitor that doesn’t only take VGA. I have been using TVs in place of monitors for a very long time because I mostly use my computer for media-related activities (hosting and maintaining Plex and watching that locally) so I don’t need much.

But like I said the tv I pilfered from my kitchen at least displayed why I had the black screen so I’m making progress and I hope I can move it seamlessly when I have everything :)

I never really considered I was using too good of a display device… that was never mentioned as a possible cause in any of the articles I found, they were mostly other hardware related problems, like dual monitors or something.

Also I bought the motherboard, cpu, and ram (also a new cooling system, bc my liquid cool was very old and idk if it still works) all together based on pc part picker and advice I got in another post on the rimworld comm, so it should all be compatible, tho the gpu is iffy. Nvidia is always iffy.

So I did the ctrl-alt-fkeys and none of them did anything. I’m re-doing a live image now because the one I tried gave me a kernel panic (which is progress) with the only “monitor” or anything else that wasn’t 4k or vga-only that I could find.

It’s still a tv and hdmi, but a much smaller 720p, and that got me something to work with anyway.

I’ll keep you posted. Thanks for the help thus far :)

I can’t do anything when the screen goes black. Or at least I don’t know how to pull anything up. It’s basically just stuck and I have to reboot. I have tried pulling up the terminal before installing but I have no clue what to do with it. It’s just a blank terminal. On that note though I haven’t seen any errors other than when booting into the years-old Ubuntu install.

Only one monitor, as I said, so shouldn’t be the problem. When I try to access through the GPU, it says there’s no output. Also when I fully removed the GPU, leaving only the integrated graphics, same problem. I did try your suggestion, but it did nothing.

I don’t know how to drop the resolution on my monitor because it’s a tv, and I can’t access anything related to these things other than via bios. If you have suggestions to do that I’m totally here for them! However I did try using the low graphics mode to install which I assume would bypass this, and that also didn’t work. Same black screen, as I mentioned.

I don’t know what fallback gui means in this context; there’s nothing to access. It’s just a list? The actual gui interface for bazzite never loads, just the bios screen, or the old ass Ubuntu install, or a black screen when I try to do anything with my live media.

Already updated the bios, as I mentioned. No change.

And as for the fedora live image, I can try making one but I don’t have faith in myself to do anything with it if it works, which I don’t honestly think it will. That’s the only thing I’ve come across that I haven’t tried at all because like I said I don’t have confidence in myself to rebase. I guess for ruling stuff out that’s fine, though… but if that also doesn’t work, then what?

Or a horse that likes you. Mine used to bite my butt if I let him get his head over my shoulder. That’s shit hurts and he fucking knew it and thought it was funny.

He also knew I brought him watermelon and let him run full speed wherever he wanted to go (I was 12, what else did I have to do? My parents made terrible financial decisions that fucked me as an adult, but I had an interesting childhood!)

I was expecting this on a pos enterprise system that barely managed win 10 (but has 12 usb ports!!!). For context, the replacement drive I got for it from the IT department that “disposed of” the tower had windows 7 installed on it, they said that was the best it could probably do, which is why they were obsoleted years ago.

There must have been something really wrong with other components because even with antixlinux, which doesn’t even have seem to have sound support out of the box, and is meant to be used off a usb (keeps a persistent state on the USB so you can take your OS and data with you), it was slow as molasses. (I also tried mint and raw Debian and a couple other things and they all sucked hard)

So I threw Ubuntu back on and use it only for the Plex desktop app in my bedroom where I try not to watch too much tv. Is the only thing that runs on it without issues as long as I never close it. Reboots take 10 min tho. Not even remotely worth troubleshooting (that’s pc#4 in my house… I live alone. I have other options.)

This all to say, if it doesn’t respond well to Linux, there might be something else going on :)

Unfortunately I think they got their marketing spot on. (Tho I agree with everything you say, also as a homebrewer)

The venn diagram of people who make liking IPA their personality and people who are likely tech bros is closer to a circle than it should be.

32.7 gb at 480 ;)

But it includes the srt files. Get rid of those and it’s probably closer to 32 even.

(I know this was a joke, but it is still pretty big 😉)

Ungh, unintended consequences are the worst.