FishInABarrel

I don't know how it is in practice, but conceptually clearing a jam in a 40mm grenade thrower sounds nerve-wracking.

I've got an older 3900X that's Zen 2, but I'm otherwise clear, too.

It's kind of hard to figure out which Zen # a CPU falls under, so here's the Wiki page listing all Zen 2 CPUs.

Heat pump water heaters already exist, but I think they're pretty expensive compared to gas/resistive heat.

I wouldn't be surprised if electric tankless water heaters are indeed infeasible under this mandate. Heat pumps generally aren't powerful, and tankless heaters require enormous amounts of power while in use.

I'm a month or so into switching from Windows 10 to Ubuntu. I've never lasted this long in prior attempts to switch over.

Gaming has been quite good. Steam just works for 99% of the games I've tried, with the 1% being one or two minor bugs in games that otherwise worked fine. Lutris, on the other hand, did not work at all. 0% success rate installing or running games.

Linux does still seem brittle and/or unnecessarily complicated, though. For example, I have a super common nvidia card, and my first post-install experience was having to boot into safe mode to fix the drivers. Then Ubuntu updated the drivers and my screens didn't come back up. I had to hard-reset to get them back. And I have yet to get NUT installed and configured correctly so I can have the PC power down gracefully when the UPS runs low, something which is trivial in Windows.

Is all the frustration worth it to have an OS that isn't selling me ads and trying to move me to a cloud account? Probably.

When I started cooking, I thought a "clove" was the whole head of garlic. It tasted about right to me. XD

This feels like a comment from 1997. Aside from occasionally updating video drivers for a new video game, I can't remember the last time I had to maintain--much less fix--a driver.

I had a really hard time with the first book and eventually gave up--quite a rare thing with me. I felt like the translation wasn't working for me, but that's a hard thing to judge without actually finishing the book.