And staying up late one night can wreck your sleep pattern for days afterwards. “Why are you tired today?” “Because I stayed up late three days ago!” Lol, ugh.

It may seem odd, but doing crunches helps. A lot. Getting those abs in shape helps to pull the back together too!

“leava me alono!”

I’m on smoko!

I might hafta try this. Ummm, the empty present part, not Anakin’s.

You have us! Seems there are a few willing to assist. Breaking things is an excellent opportunity to learn! My IT career was kicked off by breaking computers!

I am not sure if I missed something in the thread, but did you try going to settings > peripheral devices > screen, and changing the resolution? I have seen mentioned flipping the video card selection to or from VGA and back can help.

I have loaded PopOS before, but did not really care for it and am now on Mint. I would be happy to load it up on a system tonight and help you troubleshoot a bit as I have a spare small PC with a 1080 in it.

Edit: Ah, I see that you did try and it won’t let you change it. I can load Pop up anyways to have it handy in case you reach out for help. I’ll try and load the specific release you did.

Sploosh!!!

This is true of nearly every topic.

I am a nerd with many computers. That helps.

As a frequent reader of Ars comments, I’ve noticed that those idiots are always down voted to oblivion.

You know, I’ve always wondered if local sexpot was thrown from that balcony for his anti-establishment and “eat the rich” positions. I think he was too dangerous to them. Tragic loss for the rest of us.

Those common people are the clay of the land…

In a previous life I was a mortgage loan officer at a broker. I bent over backwards helping folks get into those programs whenever possible. I was impressed with how little was needed when everything slotted in place in some cases. Glad it worked for you too!

Speaking to the post, I feel like there is a tipping point between OP and your points and the post is showing that. If you can convince the bank to loan you the money somehow you then start to build more capital which can pull you out of being “poor”. There are many variables and wildly varying degrees of this scenario, but once you start your ownership experience, some people can work it quite hard and build enough capital to own multiple residences and rent them out. (Those already in possession of capital are out of scope of OPs post.)

Rent is paying the landlord for everything every month. No repairs lately? Too bad, you’ll still pay for the possibility. The exchange is that you should never worry about repairs (or taxes) as the landlord handles everything. Once the landlord figures his margins are too tight, they raise the rent. Lots of variables here too and that makes blanket statements about which is better more difficult. I advocate home ownership, but I feel terrible for young people. Runaway greed by those that already had the capital has changed things. The young folks I know that are able to manage it all had help from relatives.

The act of convincing the bank and owning a home is getting more and more difficult. Impossible in many places and improbable in others without Herculean efforts. OPs post expresses this perspective.

Startpage has been decent for me. I find results and move on with life as a search engine should be.

I accidentally used the googs on a system last week and holy hell was it awful. The results looked so weird and unhelpful and then I noticed the default SE on the browser and fixed it straight away.

I remember the hand-wringing about Cassini prior to its launch. The probe survived launch from Earth fine, but Saturn got the materials in the end (I also remember people stating that we polluted Saturn without the Saturnian’s consent).

I believe several RTGs have been recovered from failed launches intact and without leakage, so I agree it can be done.

Last time I checked on that one, the opposition to the idea was focused on the risks of nuclear fallout from a failed launch.

ICE: Approved. Off to Angola!

Good point, thanks. Since this caused me to look that up, here’s an interesting study on Australian firefighters and plasmapheresis:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8994130/