I pay $30 a year for Nitro Basic. It’s only $2.50 a month and worth it to me with how much I use it.

The joke goes rm -fr, which stands for “remove french”. Yours has double “remove” and is less believable.

Exactly what I thought of

Sell it to who? Is this a game of hot potato?

Nothing about the app is secret, Google openly advertises it

It’s for E2E encryption in chat apps.

You don’t need an ad blocker for DuckDuckGo, you can just turn off ads in the settings. Which makes complaining about them completely silly.

Let me try: Lmao. Uses a computer, still does stuff the slower way because learning new things is too difficult.

To be serious, I am looking for the best solutions for my use cases, not adequate ones. Yes dd works perfectly fine and as you noted doesn’t take long to use anyway. But just because it’s fine doesn’t mean other approaches aren’t better.

A GUI tool can offer or take a list of download URLs for common distros so downloading isn’t a separate step, it can check if the target device is a flash drive and not a hard drive by mistake, it can automatically choose the optimal block size for the device, it can verify the process by reading it back from the device, can show you the current filesystem, label, and usage of the target device to confirm, it can handle flashing to multiple devices at the same time with separate and total progress bars.

If I wanted to do all that on the command line it’d be quite a lot of commands or a sizeable script to write. Or I can use a simple dd command and lose out on all of the above. Either way it’s a worse option. I will only use dd when a GUI tool isn’t installed, or when I’m on a system without a DE.

It’s faster to drag and drop a downloaded ISO and choose the target from a dropdown, than do it on a command line. And get a progress bar. As much as command line is usually faster, it isn’t in this case.

Yes you can also get a progress bar on the command line but it’s more typing again, and realistically you need to look the option up every time if you use dd once every 3 months.

Oh? And you’re the authority on that?

Well yes, I am the authority on my opinions, just like anyone else is on theirs.

I do agree though that its not necessarily the same league as the others.

That’s what I mean, I don’t think it belongs next to Matrix or 12 Monkeys. It’s a run of the mill Tom Cruise action film. Very enjoyable, but it doesn’t break any new ground, in my opinion.

Oblivion? It was all right, and I recommend it, but I wouldn’t call it a mandatory watch, it didn’t have any special message

Why are you posting stuff about some other OS on a Linux sub? Maybe try some general technology one.

Gotta use that Anti-bio Beam

The 6-figues line could very well be a joke without the story being untrue.

I see nothing wrong with using it if you already have it.

BambuLab is not to be trusted, they are anti-consumer and remove features after purchase

You don’t need to update

If I have to careful to defend something I bought against the manufacturer remotely bricking it, then maybe it’s not a product I’d recommend

That’s the point. There is nothing strange or shady about the fact that things you type into DeepSeek.com are sent to DeepSeek.com. Obviously keystrokes you submit to a website are submitted to the website.

I found ChatGPT useful a few times, to generate alternative rewordings for a paragraph I was writing. I think the product is worth a one-time $5 purchase for lifetime access.

Linting rules and scripts should never live in an IDE-specific directory.

Of course they should. Obviously it shouldn’t be the only place they are, but committing IDE code styles settings that match the externally-enforced project styles is absolutely helpful.

Or, in our project we have a bunch of scripts that you can run manually, but we also have commited IntelliJ run configurations that make running them a convenient in-IDE action.

Yep, and the fact you can upgrade to new versions is amazing, only paying for the new parts, not a whole new printer.