Look at that, an OP who is just a prick.

Why? If you say to limit the spread of bacteria we have some studies that suggest it makes no difference at all

Some HP printers require proprietary firmware be loaded over USB. You could try hplip but I found that although my printer is explicitly supported it couldn’t identify it via device ID.

they’ve published kernel modules as opensource moved everything to proprietary firmware blobs that used to be in drivers to make an “open source” version, unethically (and arguably illegally) used a GPL condom to avoid kernel taint, and in the enterprise space are jacking up prices and pushing “cloud” stuff just because they can.

FTFY.

Let’s not pretend that NVIDIA are a pro-consumer company; they’re kind of dicks and their primary motivation is profit.

Metadata for MP3 tracks is stored in an id3 tag; you need an id3 tag editor to embed the thumbnail into the tag.

There’s a lot of automation out there, MusicBrainz Picard is probably the best option out there for automating the process, especially if your tracks are already sorted by album.

I’m not worried about that 😎

You should be. Your name will be associated with abuse forevermore.

The admins can tell me what’s the frequency/number they’re comfortable w/ and I can reconfigure the solution.

Or you can set some sane defaults and a timeout period. 1 request / 5 mins is fine to check if something is online and responding.

I run Gentoo; (almost) every binary on my system was compiled from source on my machine or one that I control.

hybrid intel/nvidia that can give you a lot of headaches on Linux

Nah, nowadays we just use PRIME render offload via prime-run and things “just work”.

The whole hybrid Optimus/Bumblebee graphics switcheroo was a terrible idea and I’m glad it died an ignoble death.

I purchased a relatively recent Subaru because it has a six-speed manual transmission.

You should learn to drive regardless; you never know when you’re going to be called on to drive a friend’s car or need to hire a vehicle to e.g. move house.

I’ve had to teach several people in their 20s to drive through lack of opportunity or willingness when they were younger.

I don’t feel comfortable about being in control of a heavy vehicle moving at relatively high speed.

A car is not a heavy vehicle. :)

I know I’d drive over a pedestrian the first month because I got lost in my thoughts and completely forgot to pay attention to being in a damn car.

You won’t.

Additionally there’s the high prices of gas to consider, low prices of bus transport, and for me as a student non-existent prices for trains.
Why pay extra to create additional traffic and kill people?

Knowing how to drive doesn’t mean that you’ll immediately go out and buy a car, then start exclusively using it.

Does having swap memory damage SSDs

Not to the point that it’s worth worrying about. Seriously. Unless you’re on something stupid like an SD card the write endurance of a SSD will be fine for the purposes of swap.

If you’re regularly thrashing the swap it’s still fine, but maybe rethink what you’re doing anyway because there’s probably a better way

When Netscape didn’t take off like they hoped it was retooled a little bit and turned into ff

Don’t you mean “when Microsoft abused their monopoly to crush the competition it was open sourced”?