The 4 year upgrade cycle is too short on one hand. On the other, critical software like Firefox is too old even then so I have to use a flatpack for that which does not integrate well. I am using Debian 12. The other option is that Mozilla does have a debian repo but that is harder to setup.

Besides. What is there to really mange. There are only a few that one are likely to change. Every thing else is in /etc. Besides all of thia is in whole system backups and snapshots anyway.

Which means using them as an always on device is expensive and not very eco.

For what it is worth, my Bluetooth hearing aids just work on Ubuntu. Have not tried BLE.

Various uses of “find” in particular. “xargs” sometimes too. The capabilities of “bash” in general including scripting and the whole redirection, piping, and multiprocessing capabilities in particular.

Correct me if I am wrong but I think some breakers you have to fully shut off before resetting. Also good to figure out why it tripped. What do you have on that circuit for example and is it too much.

Meta is used in many ways. In CS usually something in between. Source code, intermediate or meta code, binary code.

Yes humans are terible at multitasking.

Not at all. The Volt is great. No major issues. Not sure why your loosing your shit over something you seem to know nothing about.

Over bloan. Software does not age but security does. Other things that do not age well is specialty tech hardware components. Batteries are a question too.

I know my volt at 10 years does not have a viable oem battery replacement (back ordered and nutty price). I can get a reasonable after market battery though.

No. People do what they do.

What I find more laughable is people complaining profusely about windows but doing nothing about it.

Using something different is hard too. Most people are somewhere between cows and idiots. I have been using Python since the late 90s even on Windows and at work too. I got some strange reactions and push back over the years. You just have to not care. We see now how that turned out. Now everyone agrees Python is useful.

However when many apps have a permission it becomes meaningless.

The thing about most default configs of any OS is that user storage is largely accessable to all apps. True of Linux, Android. Windows, …

Graphene has options to restrict that but you have to set it up that way. Android also has App sandboxing for app data.

Thinking through the threat model of course is always good as is hardening. All security is porous. Linux is fine generally. If one is exposing services on the public net it is not clear that any OS or software is sufficiently secure, that takes constant effort in terms of monitoring and management.

More tornadoes too I think. More intense rain at times.

Hail. Yes and constant stream of questionable roofers coming to your door.

I realize this is kind of older, but didn’t see a very good reply.

Probably also depends on where in the world you are, and the kind of advice you want. If tax only and in the US, there are registered agents, CPAs that specialize in tax, and tax attorneys. Also lot of the online preparers have an assistance option. For self help, and online preparer and their Q&A and docs, the state or federal tax sites which have tones of docs, searching like you said, and AI too though check anything AI says. Around tax time there are often tax clinics at local libraries or other locations especially for the elderly by maybe wider too.

For other kinds of financial advice, you’d use the kind of advisor you need for example a financial advisor, or an estate or elder law attorney.

The primary reason to use Lemmey is decentralization and avoidance of Reddit enshitification. Lot of Lemmey blocks shit show lemmey nodes though I am sure they exist.

Yes good analogy. Just my guess. Been a long time since I actually worked in the field.

There are various designs of backlights. They typically have a stack of loose components in an assembly. By loose I mean not totally fixed but not too free. They have to free float enought that temperature changes do not cause issues. They also have to not stick, warp, or buckle over time. Harder to engineer then you might think.

So consider what might happen if for example the top backlight film might buckle some then stick to the back of the lcd. The film might deform which would change its optical properties. Then later thermal cycling might cause release. It might do same elsewhere.

Not saying this is mechanism, but just example.

Edit: Keep in mind the LCD is glass, and the backlight components are plastic. Very different thermal expansion coefficients. Then add LED or CCFL lighting and you have a big changing heat source. Add on top of that humidity changes too.

Backlight I think. Probably film pack warp / buckle / wetout. Just a guess.

Edit: Worst part looks kind of like a wrinkle.

Sounds to me like the backlight behind the LCD. They have components which could potentially sag, stick, or warp. White screen is probably best way to see. Also look at various angles. May be more visible at some angles then others.

Hard to unsee. I know this feeling. I used to work in the industry years ago. Displays are never perfect and hard to unsee things once you see them especially when it was part of your job.