"Sons of Texas" reminded me of this tune I enjoyed a while back from Maylene and the Sons of Disaster:

"Step Up (I'm On It)"

Thanks a lot! I'll look into the upgrades you mentioned and try my luck. Here's hoping I can get it back up and running without too much work

Agreed on the Ender 3's needing some tinkering. My wife got me the Ender 3 V2 a couple of years ago for Christmas and I like it a lot, but I spend more time troubleshooting it than actually printing stuff.

I like to tinker, but the Ender 3 V2 takes advantage of that fact.

Any recommendations on part upgrades? I've upgraded the nozzle and the extruder on mine (the stock, plastic extruder cracked badly last year and I replaced it with a full metal one), but it is still very unreliable. Prints are always failing due to adhesion issues even if I use aftermarket adhesives like MagiGoo on the build plate.

That isn't evidence that the aforementioned cat food will cause cats to become malnourished. That's just you speculating to confirm your existing biases.

AAA's seem really common in my neck of the woods.

I got a Coast headlamp a couple years back that has a rechargeable battery pack, but can also take regular AAA's, which is a handy feature if I happen to need an immediate recharge.

Ohh, I'm dumb

Any immutable distro, Debian, Ubuntu, all their derivatives

Debian and Ubuntu are not immutable distributions by default, unless I am mistaken.

I'm no legal expert; I assume support can be either offered or completely avoided depending on the shop owner's preference. Most Linux distributions come with a "this software is free (as in freedom) and comes with no warranty or guaranteed functionality" disclaimer.

If I wanted to engage more with my clients and build more trust, I might offer some degree of troubleshooting/support for the Linux machines I sold. But I don't think I'd be under any legal obligation to offer that service just for selling the laptops.

Whether or not the computer shop offers support might affect whether or not a customer wants to shop at my store. Maybe I can sell my laptops cheaper if I don't offer support, or maybe my laptops cost a bit more because I do offer aftermarket support.

6.06 "Dapper Drake" (iirc) was my first GNU/Linux distro back in the day. I was about 15 and spent a week tinkering with it trying to get the wifi to work on my old HP Pavilion.

Good times.

Yep! These guys are booked solid around the clock. I have to schedule well in advance any time I want to take my car to them, unless I want to camp out and be the first customer when they open at 5am. Worth it, though. They're good people.

I dunno if VLC can do "Pipewire output", but I think it does a lot of the other stuff you mentioned. I use it on my desktop (Mint) and my phone (Android) and it suits my needs at least.

I miss Doritos Blaze. Those mfs were spicier than your run-of-the-mill grocery store potato chip. I don't think they make them any more; haven't seen them in years.

The downside of loving spicy food is that there isn't a huge market for those who enjoy superhots. Many of the spicier products I've enjoyed over the years are discontinued cause they (presumably) didn't sell enough.