A flag with 5 stars isn’t a US flag. It’s like those black line flags or any basically any flag that’s similar to the US flag isn’t a US flag.

The only flags that are different than our current one would be previous US flags.

It looks like the edge facing your camera should press into the lip in the dishwasher.

I would not trust 3rd party/aftermarket formed gaskets. Unless they used the original tooling it’s not going to be right.

Is it backwards?

If I need to buy something off the shelf I’m looking at unifi.

Insulation. Reflectrix your attic. Seal off air gaps. Add as much blow-in that you can.

Heat pump water heater.

You can buy an entry Ecoflow River that will use solar before battery. Could run a fridge off of it.

Viewers like you.

Sounds like you’re missing an on-site copy on different storage and an offsite copy.

Nope, bad idea.

Lawyers don’t lie. They massage the truth.

It’s not like Trump is some mastermind coming up with all these ideas on his own, and Miller isn’t likable enough to get elected.

This looks like something any machine shop could make in 45 mins.

I would gladly embrace shitty young ones over old ones. At least the younger ones are thinking about the future.

Instead of chaining them together, try to put the “router” in a central location and do what’s needed to limit your repeaters to a single hop away from the router. Chaining them together will lead to problems.

A proper mesh system will work better than repeaters. Some systems can use powerline networking to use your existing power outlets as a network, but it’s not always that great.

Some locations such as apartments/condos have really bad interfering neighbors on 2.4ghz. If that’s your situation then using 5ghz exclusively might help.

Shower stroke thoughts.

They will close. If you look at how many gas stations there are you’ll see that they are everywhere. I was driving through Iowa and saw an intersection that had 6 gas stations.

You can easily search for news on Linux malware. Most recently npm was affected.

Npm is used by a lot of software, so updating your software from valid sources could easily infect your machine.

It’s also dead simple to misconfigure something on Linux, like your firewall, leaving your machine exposed to the internet. Linux doesn’t bother you nearly as much as windows does when it comes to updating and restarting. Windows used to be that way too but had to adapt to the changing threat landscape.

With VMs you can try as many at once as your system can support, with less risk than booting up on a livecd, and the ability to switch between them without having to reboot.

Moving files manually is fine.

Don’t use an EoL/EoS OS, full stop.

Start up virtualbox or any virtual machine on your windows machine and test drive a few different distributions until you find one you like.

Use windows built in backup services or something like the Veeam free backup agent before blowing up your system.

I would also move my files to a cloud services, even if it’s temporary.

Install the distribution your choice.

Spin up virtual box again and restore your machine into it. You may have license activation issues but you’ll have access your data. Move your data out of the VM and onto your home folder.

Also note that win11 isn’t nearly as bad as people here say.

Linux has malware. It’s just different. Linux supports nvidia, a usb boot would help you determine how well your hardware is supported.

Once an OS boots there’s not really a lot of need for ssd. Save ssd for the apps.

Two companies, the manufacturer and the store. And it’s happened a lot in the past.

Glad you’re trying to steer one of them into the right direction.

I recently bought a perishable that I opened the following day. It had mold on it, while the “best by” date was 2 months away.

The contact info they listed on the package didn’t work.

I contacted the store I bought it from, just to let them know they might have a bad batch

A week later I get contacted back. They said bring it in and the receipt for a refund.

No one at these companies really gives a shit.