They’re business gear. Nothing flashy, nothing really well marketed as a personal computer. A lot of people don’t even know they exist.

Some folks? They see that they aren’t super expensive and assume that means they suck. But because they’re designed for business use, they tend the be built really well. Durable; light enough to be portable, but not flimsy.

Legit, it’s the way to go. Even with the memory fuckery ongoing, you can pick up decent used ThinkPads all day long for way less than anything else. They won’t be great gaming platforms, but you can do some gaming on them.

Pick any of the most recommended “distros” you want to try, make thumb drives that can boot them, and you don’t even have to install any until after you’ve seen that they can handle your needs.

Me? I’m a mint guy. Next to zero chance of it not working on anything I want it to, easy to use and a good package repository. PopOs is good, Ubuntu is okay. And there’s a good handful of other solid, noob friendly ones out there.

First, ask Linux users what distro you should use.

Second, laugh maniacally as they devolve into an Anchorman style rumble to the death

Third, ?

Forth, go boldly

Fourth, profit

Seventh, realize you skipped some steps, go back and see which Linux user is the least dead, loot their bootable “live” thumb drive, and install whatever is on it.

They got so much wrong it’s hilarious.

About the only thing they got right is that we have chickens and like comfy clothing, and one mention based on a five year old review. Literally everything else was junk.

Wattpad is a company/site/app for independent self publication. Fairly good user base, and enough awareness that movies and traditional publishers have found authors there.

With lemmy (and, I think piefed), you can set a display name in your user profile settings. There’s a character limit, but it can be almost anything.

Wattpad

Damn, you went from zero to asshole in one comment. Sorry you wasted my time.

That’s some really cool word play :)

I said it wasn’t inherently harmful.

Second, if you’re going to stretch the word Theft to include murder and kidnapping/imprisonment, we’re both wasting time because we aren’t using the same language at all. Just let me know you’re standing on that principle and I won’t bother you again.

That being said, with the normal usage of Theft, it really depends on what you take from whom, and how much as to whether harm is done.

Secondary to that, even when there is harm from theft, it can still be justified. Me stealing a medication from a pharmacy certainly costs someone something, but if that’s the last ditch option when all else has failed, is it really a situation where the harm of the theft outweighs the harm of the broken society that made it necessary? While two wrongs don’t make a right, some wrongs preclude right in the first place.

In that scenario, the harm is so heavily distributed via tax breaks and insurances that it might even be a benefit overall since without some theft as a reason to exist, there’s entire industries that wouldn’t exist. The individual theft is still a harm tp some link in the chain, but the chain itself is not harmed at all.

Stepping back even further, what about stealing back? I paid taxes and monies into a broken system, thus me stealing necessary medication could be simply taking back what was taken from me in bad faith. Restitutional theft ain’t really theft, in other words.

Again, I never said theft was never harmful, I said it isn’t inherently harmful.

Become a leader of a country with access to a large nuclear arsenal

Not so.

Theft in and of itself isn’t a certain harm.

The problem isn’t so much that you’d kill yourself trying. Unless you’re an idiot and can’t follow instructions, that’s not likely.

The problem is that you picked the wrong medication. Nyquil is a blend. It’s got multiple drugs in it, and they aren’t going to do what you want at a safe dosage.

You gotta use a single medication that’s both safe and effective for short term sleep assistance. Since I have zero clue about your medical history, am not a doctor, and also not an idiot, I’m not willing to recommend anything other than consulting your doctor that knows your history for a recommendation.

Truth be told though, it’s not going to be as useful as you think. You can sleep through the early withdrawal from nicotine. But the part that makes it hard is the mid term symptoms that kick in as your body adapts, around the third day to a week. Most people can willpower through a few days, it’s once things get more subtle that they run into real trouble. It’s not so much the cravings as it is losing all the benefits that come with nicotine. Everything gets dulled down, your brain gets foggy. It’s not miserable really, it’s akin to the tail end of the flu where you’re better, but still drained.

You can’t sleep that long

Updates are non existent, basic functionality locked behind a subscription, iffy support, lousy documentation. They suck. I have one, and the only reason I haven’t replaced it is monetary I have too many other things eating into my budget to replace something that is working, if not to my preferences

Yeah, well, they’re shit anyway

Pfft, like they need my chipset for that

You’re don’t to get different answers because a lot of it is subjective.

But, my opinion is that dark is more “restful” up to a point. After that point, the darker colors end up giving a room a cramped, gloomy feel star can be less restful and more draggy.

That remains consistent for furniture, wall colors, and even in art by itself.

Beige is indeed a neutral, easy to work around color. As are soft grays. I’d tend to prefer soft grays, and maybe blue slate tones over beige with significant black furniture in the same room. Not that browns and blacks can’t work well together! They absolutely can (and holy shit I just noticed how weird that sentence would be out of context), but you need to commit to more of the browns, they need to be more present, like with rugs or whatever, supporting the black.

So, in my opinion (which is subjective as hell, as already mentioned), if you want a restful vibe, and are only considering a couch cover, go with something in the gray range, with or without tinges of a color to it. It’ll get the goal you have of brightening things a tad, while not clashing or looking out of place.

But! If you really like the beige/tan/brown vibe, it’s easy enough to grab a throw rug or some wall hangings that can tie the cover into the rest of the room very nicely.

Iirc, and don’t rely on my memory for anything real without consulting a local attorney, as long as the firearm isn’t functional, as in it has been rendered unable to fire at all, regardless of being assembled or not, it’s no longer a firearm fur that specific purpose. But there’s fairly strict rules about what actually renders weapon legally fucked enough to pass muster.

That being said, it isn’t really about US laws for the most part, it’s state laws that will fuck you in the ass. So, again, grain of salt.

But that’s how people can own actual military gear without an ffl. You get a “machine” gun that’s entirely welded into a brick, and has paperwork with it, you don’t have to do anything else.

With another that being said, a convicted felon is going to want to be very careful anyway. Yeah, eventually it’ll be handled and it won’t come back on them, but it’s still gonna be at least a brief clusterfuck if the wrong person sees it. A lot of cops don’t give a fuck and will cause trouble before checking to see if it’s actually legal.

Edit: it’s usually the receiver that’s considered the important part. And it isn’t enough to just not have one visible in your scenario. You’d want proof that there wasn’t one, just to avoid hassles

Pfft, you can keep her. She’s grumpy and worn out. Ima go steal OP’s mom.

It’s an offshoot of the whole valley girl thing from the seventies and eighties, iirc

At least, that’s the general origin of that specific expression of the over exaggerated brat whine.

Other versions likely have other origins, and the long extended vowel at the end is likely timeless

A wheelchair that isn’t covered by insurance might as well not exist for the vast majority