Dell was my first thought as well

Have you tried it? Have you felt Poseidon’s kiss? Magical.

Soap is a bonus, an extra tool that we haven’t what’s had. But water, by itself, gets you a significant fraction of the way towards being “completely” clean.

Water is a polar molecule, it naturally separates dirt and grime, and dissolves things like salt and sugar.

It’s considered a universal solvent, not because it can dissolve anything, but because it’s so dang good at cleaning so much stuff.

If I’m away from soap, all I have is water, and my hands are dirty, I feel pretty good about using just water. With just water, and some mechanical action, you can get pretty far. Soap would be better, but that’s not always an option every moment of every day.

Nobody is saying that if you use a bidet you no longer have to wash your butt in the shower. But if you use a bidet, the time in between showers will be cleaner than had you just used paper. It’s literally science.

Soap would be better, sure. But if I was somewhere far away from soap, and I got poop on any part of my body, I would be much happier using a garden hose to spray myself off, rather than just some paper towels.

Likewise, when I’m out and about, with no bidet, sure, yeah, give me the TP. It’s fine, I guess.

But at home? With access to a bidet? Why wouldn’t I use it over the TP?

Bidets are cheap, easy to use, and effective. Everyone should get over themselves and get one.

Or don’t, you do you, but you’re missing out 🤷‍♂️

I’m not personally saying that everyone else has poor hygiene. But many people have poor hygiene, more than you can imagine. And a bidet helps have better hygiene.

Honestly it’s probably a good litmus test. Not everyone without bidets have bad hygiene. But statistically, I bet most people with bidets have good hygiene.

I think the point you might be missing from the OP, is that the person in question doesn’t actually possess this knowledge or skill, but instead of being humble and admitting the gaps in their knowledge, perhaps asking a question or two when they don’t understand, they just plow ahead.

I know people like this. It’s not malicious I don’t think, maybe it’s more of a defense mechanism? They don’t want to look uninformed, so they try to fill the gaps in their knowledge with assumptions. Maybe they’re right a decent amount of the time, or close enough to fool people who aren’t knowledgeable on the subject. But people who are knowledgeable, will recognize what they’re doing, and the lack of humility comes across as arrogance, even though that may not strictly be the case.

It’s normal to know a lot of stuff and like a wide variety of things. But you need to be humble when you don’t know something.

When I don’t know something for sure, I like to say “I think it’s this way, but I could be wrong.” Or something like that. Or heck, if someone else has the knowledge and skills I don’t, I’m right up there asking questions, I want to learn. Maybe I’ll try to impress them with what little I do know on the subject by commenting or asking questions in a way that shows I understand what they’re talking about, because we all want to have self worth. But faking it isn’t cool, and can be harmful, or just annoying.

Super awesome! I was looking at this, but don’t want a new phone right now

Dude that’s awesome, this thing is more versatile than I ever imagined! Thanks!

I guess I didn’t realize these could gravity feed, is that normal?

Glad to hear they are so resilient though

Nice! How long between trips? I only really go a few times a year

That’s good to know that drying it out works. Same filter? 7 years? Awesome! Maybe I just need to do that. I’m surprised it can dry at all, honestly.

I wonder how the filter material differs to that of the life straw. The life straw has instructions that if you let it dry out and it stops working, you can fix it by soaking it in coconut milk. Something about the milk helps reduce surface tension or something, it’s crazy.

Thanks for the write-up! Specifically I’m running a framework 13 7840U, so it’s ddr5, and that iGPU has no dedicated vram, it shares the main system ram.

I’m not looking for ridiculous performance, right now for small models I’m seeing probably 3 ish words per second. But when I put bigger models in, it starts to get ridiculously slow. I’m fine waiting around, really I’m just playing with it because I can. But that’s entering no fun territory haha

Is this why I can’t get llama GPU acceleration on my 7840u with integrated 780m?

I’ve got 96gb of ram, I can share half of that as vram. I know the performance won’t be amazing, but it’s gotta be better than CPU only.

I looked into it once and saw a bunch of people complaining about lack of support, saying it’s an easy fix but had to happen upstream somewhere. I can’t remember what it was, just that I was annoyed 🤷‍♂️

Edit: accidentally a word

I have one coming, I don’t think the area is that much smaller. The screen resolution being non native 720 bugs most people.

I’m excited because I just bought a broken-screen steam deck, so even with the high-ish cost ($130 ish for the etched version), I’ll still come out at the end with a premium deck experience for less than base model deck 🤷‍♂️

Thanks for the tips! I’m not gonna attempt it till I’m back home Sunday or Monday night

I bought a day one Deck. I didn’t think the Delta fan was that bad. I honestly never thought about it. But then one day it died. I replaced it with a huaying, and the difference is definitely noticeable. It was a pleasant surprise, even though I usually game with headphones anyway 🤷‍♂️

I bought a broken steam deck to fix for cheap. Needs a screen, left bumper, and theoretically a joystick, though the joystick seems fine to me.

Halfway through the process I realized the previous owner left half an SD card in the slot. Crazy. Haven’t had time to attempt removing it yet. Hopefully the slot is ok.

Small point, just for the sake of discussion, since you seem knowledgeable and I’m sure you already know:

Upgrading your storage doesn’t strictly require starting over. When I went from 512 to 2tb, I just cloned the drive, then expanded the main partition to fit. Worked like a charm 👌

For most people though yeah it’s probably easier starting over than fussing with cloning.

I’ll be cloning my buddy’s 64gb drive as soon as he buys something bigger.

Glad you found it, and glad it worked for you too!

Let me know!

That makes sense, definitely weirdness. Funny it didn’t bother it the other way around, the other deck is fine 🤔

At any rate, I’m done worrying about it haha