Apple doesn’t give a shit about their image, and hasn’t for years.

If you’ve bought into the Apple ecosystem, you either like the products or you’re subject to their hideous vendor lock-in, so you’re probably going to buy more Apple products either way.

If you aren’t by this point, you probably never will be, so why would they waste their money appealing to you?

I’ve never rented a car so I’m curious, what benefits does checking-in early actually get you? I assume you still need to talk to a person and go through the whole upselling thing they’re notorious for. Accidental damage cover? Fuel cover? Rain cover? Excess cover? Excess cover excess cover?

If my dad had tried to do this to me I’d probably go along with it. Knowing what he was like, he would’ve set me up with a gay man, and we’d both have a laugh.

OP, if this is anything more than “hypothetically”, you are absolutely definitely being scammed right now. Break off chat with the “billionaire”. If you’ve given them your financial details, call the phone number printed on the back of your bank card. If you use Windows or MacOS, run a scan with Seraph Secure to make sure nobody has remote access to your computer.

That said: billionaires deal with banks and financial institutions of all kinds all the time. They’ll have their bank communicate directly with your bank before making a bank transfer, so both banks know exactly what’s happening. You may need to pay tax on the donation/investment. Use some of the money to hire an accountant.

And what gave humans the right to put those cities there?

They’re like bitcoins, but the developers piggy promise that each one will always be worth a fixed amount of real money.

This. Stray dogs have every bit as much right to be there as random humans. They probably treat the place better than the average human, too.

You’re welcome, the collaborative effort wins again :)

Thanks, you too. :)

Termux will accept files “shared” to it, and pass the full filename to ~/bin/termux-file-editor

So, if it’s the only thing you plan to use Termux for, you could make your ~/bin/termux-file-editor something like:

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i "$1" -b:a 320k "$1.mp3"

…and then never think about it again, just share files via Termux and it’ll re-encode them for you. :)

or, if you don’t specifically need CBR and just want ffmpeg to output on its highest quality:

#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -i "$1" -q:a 0 "$1.mp3"

I’m not sure of the exact syntax, but hope this at least helps point you in the right direction :)

Ah. That’s a pretty good reason. Thanks.

Fruit isn’t sold like that here, but I’m curious. Why not just open the bag and take a lemon?

People like that have surprisingly short memories.

If you want to apply back, talk to your former colleagues who have good things to say. List them as your references, or drop their names.

Don’t talk to your old boss. Don’t give her power over you again if your job will have nothing to do with her.

Can I just say I love your username

Unpopular opinion: There is no one “best” distro. I’d recommend you download a few, try them out, see what clicks for you. Nobody knows your use case as well as you do.

Me.

You’re not the only one. I jumped ship from Win11, hopped around a bit, but settled on Kubuntu early last year. I’m perfectly happy here, and unless they decide to ram degenerate AI down my throat I’m probably not moving.

You must either have a bad one or you’re using it wrong. The one we have is amazing.

You may wish to reconsider using Brave. The devs are not very nice people.

I tried Zen and I didn’t like it. I have a big enough screen, I like everything being a click away, I even turned on the menu bar in LibreWolf. I also didn’t like the forced tabs down the side. I guess this is why we have options!