I’m assuming she had breast implants and she thought one of them ruptured. It happens and isn’t life threatening.

I’m sorry that it wasn’t the case though.

AliExpress takes a zillion years to receive your item…longer than any other online retailer I’ve used. Great value for your money, but you ain’t getting that shit any time soon. I’ve had good experiences with them, but Amazon is when you need something within a reasonable timeframe.

Like OP said, Amazon is really the only company that managed to figure out how to ship stuff fast. So many other websites are ungodly slow, making you wait multiple weeks for your item. Patience is a virtue, I guess…but it’s hard to order items online from these other vendors when you’re out of town frequently (I drive to visit my mom a lot and stay at her place since it’s somewhat far from me) and have no idea when your package will eventually arrive.

In my experience, they stopped offering free months and started changing it to “pay $2 for one month” offers. I found it super useful when I knew someone had a birthday coming up or something I needed to shop for. But I don’t think they do free months anymore.

Yeah idk. I was more interested in trying to stick with an Ubuntu-based (or at the very least a Debian-based) OS just because it’s easier to search for an issue and have those related distros be the top result.

I remember years back when I first discovered Mint it seemed like the perfect end user focused Linux distro. It worked so much better out of the box than even Ubuntu (which is already very user friendly), with very minimal configuring needed…installing a lot of things out of the box that even Ubuntu didn’t do at the time. I was deciding between Mint and Pop OS to try out on my laptop, and ultimately went with Pop OS because of GNOME and because I heard they have a bit better hardware support (altho I don’t have an NVIDIA card so that might be moot).

I get that you can install other desktop environments on your system, but if your distro is built with something in mind it seems better to try that first. I also didn’t want to necessarily want to jump back into Ubuntu after all these years, because I hear it doesn’t run as well as other distros with these new Snaps things. The point would be to make my laptop run better than it is, not worse.

I don’t mind a bit of tinkering here and there, but I have no interest in 3l337 h@X0r level distros. The more user friendly and “it just works”, the better. I’m not a programmer, nor do I work in IT or anything of the sort. I prefer GUI based programs, not terminal based ones.

Idk I tried a weed vape once and felt like I was going to pass out like that lol. I stick to edibles.

Not that weird imo if he puffed it that many times in a row without coming up for air.

People use Mac and Windows because everything just works and it comes pre-loaded on the system. That can be the case with some Linux distros, but more often than not you’ll spend forever troubleshooting because some random bit of hardware on your system is not supported immediately out of the box.

I put Linux Mint on my mom’s laptop several years back in an attempt to breathe some new life back into that piece of crap. It’s still a piece of shit, but I thankfully haven’t had to tinker with it and nothing has broken for her.

The other day I tried installing Pop OS on my laptop after having been away from linux for several years. I was infuriated at how long it took me to fiddle with it and get certain components of my system working. Even then, it randomly boots into a black screen occasionally until I restart it a few times. No idea why.

As an example, when I paired my bluetooth mouse, it had missing functionality for the extra buttons. I tried installing some program that you have to manually configure from the terminal and it just threw errors and broke functionality of the scroll wheel. Found a program with a GUI interface…it had both a flatpack and a .deb available. Tried the .deb and it threw an error and never worked. Tried the flatpack version…still didn’t work but this time it no longer told me what the error was (and neither did reinstalling the .deb version)…gave it once and never again so I hope you memorized it. Through some googling I found out that both installations packages were missing some stupid vital and necessary permissions file for some reason. I have absolutely no idea why they were missing the file. It reminded me of the old days when windows was missing some obscure .dll file and I had to download it online. Had to do some more googling to actually figure out what the file was supposed to contain and ended up creating it myself. Finally I got all of the mouse buttons working after all this headache.

If everything works out of the box, you’re golden. If you have to configure shit or things break randomly (like the intermittent black screen issue), things can get frustrating real quickly.

To top it all off, I had hoped Pop OS would make my laptop run snappier, but it even feels a bit more sluggish than Windows 10. I’m still trying to give it a chance though because I missed a bit of tinkering now and then and my laptop is starting to show it’s age a bit. And the new look of GNOME was interesting (well “new” to me…I used Ubuntu back before they updated GNOME to have this dock thingy).

Edit: For anyone who wishes to comment on the black screen issue…no, I do not have a NVIDIA graphics card.

Generally, if I want an answer to something, I’ll search whatever I’m looking for followed by “Reddit”. I know a lot of people here hate the site owner, and with good reason, but it actually has made information gathering on the web sane again. Instead of my query coming up with a zillion AI generated webpages, I’ll end up with real people discussing a real issue, and giving their opinions and troubleshooting steps, etc.

I don’t know that it’s necessarily a search engine problem, but just an issue with the way the Internet has become.

Most people spend 40+ hours a week at work. It seems wild to me to be insufferable and unhappy for such a significant time of my life. I like befriending my coworkers. Fine if you don’t want to, I guess, but people like OP confuse me. We all have to work. Why not try to make the experience more enjoyable? It doesn’t mean you still can’t have a significant other or friends outside of work. The two aren’t mutually exclusive even though OP seems to weirdly make it out to be that way.

I’m sorry, I don’t have anything helpful to contribute. But I just wanted to say that I’ve been there and will probably be there again in the future. So I 100% understand what you’re feeling right now. I’ll be reading the comments as well. Good luck, friend.

To be clear, I think her reaction to not getting attention is incredibly childish and immature.

That being said…I used to never greet anyone when I arrived at work. Just sat down and did my job. But one day someone told me that in their culture, it was incredibly rude not to greet people when you walk in the room. I had honestly never even thought about it that way and it never even crossed my mind that people may view things differently like this. Since I pride myself in being kind and polite to others, I made a small change in how I interact. When I arrive at work, I say a simple “hey” to people as I see them. I don’t make it into a full blown conversation or anything, but it just acknowledges their existence. I’m not offended when people don’t say hello to me, but it also doesn’t bother me or take any effort on my part to briefly acknowledge people when I arrive for the day.

Idk. Google Maps has had the wrong location for my mom’s address for what seems like forever now. Reporting it has done nothing. It’s really frustrating because it means she can’t get deliveries from anyone other than USPS, UPS, Amazon, or FedEx. Food deliveries are flat out not possible. It directs people to an entirely different neighborhood.

Cannot confirm. Still thin skinned here. :(

I think if you have to file state taxes there is sometimes a small fee, but it’s incredibly minimal. For federal taxes it is 100% completely and totally free and I use it each year.

Why don’t people get that posting a million memes about the same thing in a row gets tiring? I don’t give a shit about what the subject is, just space them out or something.

A couple of America and oil memes? Funny. 10 nearly identical copies of a meme in a row? Starts to get grating.

That’s the thing, I can’t even manually add them. I searched all over the web, but wasn’t able to find a solution. I think in older versions of the Samsung keyboard, you were able to do this. But newer phones or newer versions of the keyboard or something removed this feature. It’s dumb.

I can’t stand the Samsung one because it doesn’t let me swear. I’m an adult, damnit. I want to be able to say what I want without my phone policing me like a child. So I use Gboard instead.

You guys are so adorable I love this. Almost makes me wish I had a relationship

It’s used a lot in law enforcement and certain medical environments like hospitals with trauma centers and morgues.

Hard disagree. I mean yeah, if you’re only listening to speech, garbage quality headphones are where it’s at.

But if you listen to music, a decent pair makes an absolute world of difference. It’s like night and day. Like comparing a tin can to a music concert.

You don’t have to spend a zillion dollars, though. A good set can absolutely still be had for cheap, but you just have to do your research first.

Where??? I always tip 20% in a restaurant when I have a server. (I don’t usually tip at counter service places because no one is serving me and staff make a higher base wage).