I moved away from it because:

• Too hard for normals (I know, but they won’t use it and what good is a chat app without contacts)
• Pisses metadata to any server you federate with
• Including matrix [.] org which as the “main instance” you almost have yo federate with, which is owned by The Matrix Foundation, which started as a project at Amdocs before breaking off, which is a Mossad affiliated company that infiltrated American telcom networks long ago, which I don’t find particularly trustworthy to have had any involvement with a secure messaging app that pisses metadata that Mossad “totally isn’t” spying on (I have no proof but you don’t either). They may not be, but it’s too close for comfort.
• In the public rooms there’s a CP problem. Can’t recommend that shit to friends/family I’ll look like a goddamn pedo if they see someone post that before it gets removed/banned. Not fair but it is what it is.

Yeah but honestly not that wild due to how it gets absorbed and how little vapor you get. Not for me but y’know to each their own, I’m already on the other end of the nic spectrum myself anyway.

Yeah you definitely can get a buzz easier from salts especially using a dripper haha, they’re meant for like Juuls lmao. That’s intense!

…I just vaped with covid hahaha. Fuck it we ball.

Iirc I did use zyns sometimes too if need be, I always keep a few around for “emergencies” anyway (like planes or whatever, or for a while my boss would call on the radio a code that basically meant “no vaping our landlord is here” and so I’d pop one in for the hour or two he’d be bugging us).

If I were trying to quit I would too (and will if that time comes), I just wanted to switch from a pack and a half a day to vaping lol.

Also current vapes have a much higher percentage of nicotine. When I vaped (comming from smoking), I mixed my liquids with 6 mg/ml. I think the standard today is 20 mg/ml.

Ehhh kinda. First of all when I started in like what 2012 using Kangertech pods and sticks, the vaporblunt brand liquid we were buying came in 0, 3, 6, 12, and 24mg options, and that was freebase liquid in the early days. Then mods came out and you didn’t need that high (and it would hurt lol) so most liquids were sold in 0 (sometimes, but it started falling off), 3, and 6mg options. Then salt nic came out, but due to being absorbed differently by the body and consumers mostly not wanting to use sub-ohm mods instead opting for smaller devices ~1.6ohms, the nic contents went back up (as high as 50mg, actually), but since it’s salt not freebase and something about the absorption and the amount of smoke difference from .1ohm to 1.6ohm it sort of evens out. ~45-50mg is still a little more iirc than say sub-ohm dripping a 3mg freebase, but not as wild as it sounds.

I make my own juice anyway at 4mg freebase.

Or make your own juice, it’s easy as fuck. So much cheaper too a bottle costs me like $3.

Btw the thing with diacetyl was overblown itself. The only recorded cases of popcorn lung came from a microwave popcorn factory working with the powdered form and no respirators, where it acted like asbestos and settled in the lungs. It has never been observed from the liquid form (or literally anywhere but that one factory actually, but), and never been observed due to vaping. Moreover, traditional cigarettes contain 2,000x the diacetyl that any vape did, and nobody has ever gotten popcorn lung from those, either.

Basically don’t rail lines of diacetyl powder (or just wear a respirator if you’re in a microwave popcorn factory on the “butter floor,”) and you’ll be fine.

Adults hate things that taste good, and kids never used to smoke cigs that tasted like shit before vapes. Solid plan lol.

Inb4 “Turns out all you need to ‘spy’ on them is Shodan” lmao.

I came here to post this, everyone knows Al Gore invented the internet.

Yeah at least you’ll be familiar with the apps, ease the headache switching.

So it’s GUIMP? I thought it was “GNU Image Manipulation Program.”

Well good to know the chips won’t stick to anything since they’re made out of anti-seize grease.

Tbh even if I could I wouldn’t want to, the terminal is so much better for many things. I advise new users to become comfortable with it at least by following along with a few “linux terminal basics” vids like it’s a class.

Yeh

Hey kids you like plain text files right?

Me, who grew up reading/referencing text files daily on gamefaqs for cheats, secrets/eggs, and walkthroughs when stuck on various games: Yeh.

Yeah I’ve heard excel the hard one to replace if you need some special functions of it, idk tbh I’ve used excel like twice and basic stuff at that so LibreOffice works fine for me.

Lol I don’t even know what visualization means in this context, I’m definitely no help on this one! Sorry!

Hope so, it seems to be more common these days! I “recently” got a Framework16, which was my first dual ssd laptop (but unfortunately doesn’t meet your size requirements).

It has definitely improved in your absence.

But yeah I understand needing your programs to work. For some like Office you may be able to get away with a replacement like OpenOffice or LibreOffice, maybe not. Idk what PowerBi is but it sounds like a c/196 user’s uname lol, and from a cursory search it looks like Teams is supported with a .deb and a .rpm but I can’t attest personally.

I’d also recommend using a laptop with two SSDs if possible, one for linux and one for windows, to alleviate some of the headaches in dual booting.

Try steam/proton instead of Wine

https://www.protondb.com/app/24780

ProtonDB says it runs well, but idk if that includes mods.