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The multiplication is implied and has been part of the standard mathematical notation for far longer than any of us have been alive.

You have to view this from outside your tech knowledge bubble.

I have friends that are "stuck on windows 10 because fuck windows 11". I urge them to give Linux a try via Live USB and they're hesitant to even do that.

The paid support path is there for people that want to try and escape and need the comfort of that safety net. They don't feel comfortable trying to figure out even where to search for information. And if they've gotten that far, having various instructions for different distros can make things confusing because they probably did a generic "my issue, linux" search or just did a "my issue" search and are seeing cryptic answers, including Mac and windows. If somebody needs that paid safety net, ZorinOS for an existing machine is great, System76/PopOS for something new.

If there is something that provides value (customer support or even the OS equivalent of a hat cosmetic) to the user, I have no concerns at all with that being sold. If that optional value could easily be done yourself with effort, those of us that know how to put in that effort ,are willing to put in the effort, or not afraid of the effort when unknown, will continue to do so. Those of us who don't match those criteria at least have an option.

Be forewarned, Bazzite has some install issues and can lock up or appear locked up during a painfully long install process. Also, VR support is meh on Bazzite and their immutable distro and managed packages make it more challenging to get non-managed solutions rolling.

As somebody running Bazzite and loving it on their HTPC, I am looking at switching to CachyOS using the Handheld (SteamOS) Display Environment or launching directly into Kodi.

Surprisingly, plate tectonics is a relatively new field of study and wasn't accepted until 1965, and before that, there was a nebulous contiential drift theory proposed in the 1910s. And of course, curriculums and books lagged behind that.

That also means that Geologists have been reverse engineering plate tectonics since then and there are several diverging theories as to where things were at different geoglical eras after going back far enough.

That joke makes me remeber the time I helped my friend move into his 8th floor condo. He has an oversized black leather sofa that didn't fit in their elevator and we had to take it up the stairs and if it was any bigger it would not have made it up the stairs at all.

Each flight of stairs required us to remove the hand rail, slowly carry it up the flight, then precisely lift and pivot onto the next landing and ready for the next flight, replacing the hand rail, and repeating the process a total of 16 times. I told him that when he leaves that place the sofa is either leaving via the window, chainsaw, or sold with the condo.

Bosch makes a few descent models.

Things to skip on all brands.

External water & ice dispensers, doesnt matter the brand. You're cutting a fucking hole in the thermal envelope to put a faulty device that's experiencing mechanical stress on parts every time you open/close the door. It's not a matter of if it will fail, but when. Also, increased operational cost. Internal water dispensers and automatic ice makers are always the better option if you want those features.

Smart features. Why the fuck do you need smart features on a fridge? Even if it's using AI vision to scan for inventory... Just no, fucking no. That's more personal data on you to be bought, sold, data breached, and utilized to fuck you somehow.

Fridges that split the freezer and fridge on a vertically.

Thanks for introducing this to me. This might actually be the vehicle that solves the needs of my wife & I.

Orange is just brown, with context.

Aptera might be the closest think to "Open Source" we might get.

The owner and creator plans on providing all schematics, operational code, and components. Including QR codes etched on everything to easily be able to find the specific info for any given part.

It's been a while since I've done a deep dive into them, but maybe it's time to do so again.

Escuse me, but I'm aging at just the right rate. Not rapidly, not slowly, but exactly as the universe planned it as we hurtle through time and space on our planet size space ship.

So, back to hand written reports, and physical books only found at the library?

Democrats are agasint the 2nd Ammendment? That's a new one.

Democrats wanting to work within the 2nd Ammandment to regulate a "well regulated militia" is another story.

The framing of Democrats being against the 2nd Ammendment is right wing (and the now defunct Russian fund pipeline: NRA) fear mongering.