I’m not at my place right now. If you come to my friend’s place where we’re at, you can have a donut and maybe pet the cat.

My current and previous laptops were/are Dell and I can count on one hand the number of hardware issues I’ve had with Linux (minus the Nvidia GPU but yknow. Nvidia.)

The anoles are one of the few things I miss about living in Florida. There are lizards here in Kentucky, but they’re more elusive.

E-bike?

Same

I agree with contacting local charities (kitchens, food banks, etc) and see if they can use them.

Username checks out.

Anyway, I think the actual answer is compassion.

My devil’s advocate argument for the elves being there is that there were a bunch of battles in the north that didn’t make it into the movie and only get mentioned a little in the books, and one of the important themes of LOTR is that all these disparate groups had to band together to fight Sauron. So having elves be at Helm’s Deep is a way to show the different people fighting together in a movie series that was already pressed for time. Necessary? Maybe not. But it doesn’t bother me as much as some of the other changes, because I can at least see a rationale for it.

Yeah I ain’t watching that. They left out like at least a third of what made the books good IMO. Sounds like a waste of time.

OK, here’s the thing. Overall, Peter Jackson’s LOTR trilogy is extremely good. I think it’s the best Tolkien adaptation we’re likely to ever get.

HOWEVER.

The random “Arwen is dying!” subplot was incredibly fucking stupid and while it didn’t ruin the movies for me, it did dampen my enjoyment of them. There had to be a better way to get more screentime for Liv Tyler, surely.

Honestly? Gotta disagree. It’s been a long time since I’ve read the book but I remember being disappointed by it after seeing the movie. Maybe I’ll give it a reread and see if my opinion’s changed. ETA: fuck all the movie sequels though, no one needed that shit.

I love the Dark Tower series and hadn’t seen the movie yet. They dropped Susannah out ENTIRELY? Seriously???

Well, at least next year you’ll meet a dental hygenist with a spatula tattooed on her arm

Director’s cut of Goncharov

Being able to make notes about users like you can on Mastodon.

Check Caitlin Doughty’s “Ask A Mortician” videos, in addition to some of the other suggestions.

NVIDIA

Welp, there’s your problem. I have an NVIDIA card as well and it’s been the source of at least 95% of my Linux headaches.

I’ve tried a few distros and Linux Mint was definitely the most “just works” for me. Make sure you’re using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers, regardless of what option you choose. Currently I use SpiralLinux (Debian with a few tweaks) because I really like the BTRFS snapshots and fell in love with KDE during my distro-hopping, but Mint is what I would recommend to the vast majority of people.

Eight, but this account is only a couple weeks old.

Game no one’s mentioned yet: Look Outside

I didn’t but I knew a guy who did.