I’m with you. One day I was like “I wonder if Wayland’s mature enough to use as my daily driver now” and installed Sway on a Raspberry Pi. I used DWM before, but now Sway’s my default.
The only issue I still have is that I wish Zoom and ffmpeg supported the wlroots-specific screen capture methods. Those are the only things lacking that are keeping me on i3/X11 on the machine I use for work.
When Enterprise was new, it seemed like they did a lot to distance it from the rest of Star Trek. Maybe they were trying to attract non-trekkies or something? Whatever the case, they didn’t advertise it as “Star Trek: Enterprise”. Just “Enterprise” (until later seasons.) The commercials/teasers left it easy to wonder if it was Star Trek or not, at least for people who didn’t watch it. And the credits music is just another example of a departure from the rest of Trek.
No happy, fulfilled person is going to say one day “I think I’ll go be a heroin addict.” People who can’t get their basic needs fulfilled use drugs (and other addictive things) as a substitute for the fulfilling things they can’t access for other reasons.
I noticed my phone battery bulging just yesterday. So I went and dug up the documentation that came with it to see if I could take advantage of the manufacturer’s warranty. No dice, but the sim card tray ejector thing was in with the user’s manual. So at least I have that. :/
Yeah, I’ve done some research about fixing it myself on YouTube. A kit to fix it is only about $25. But I was a little intimidated by the “heat the phone to soften the adhesive so the screen will come off” step and decided to look into how much it’d cost just to get it fixed professionally.
I walked into the “Authorized Google Repair” shop with my bulging Pixel and the guy told me there was a “99.9% chance” that the screen would break in the process of replacing the battery and if he had to replace the screen too, the total cost would be more than I paid for the phone and more than I would pay to get an identical model on Amazon now.
So, I’m evaluating my options. I could get a replacement battery and a replacement screen and do a lot of research and fix it myself, which is a little risky. Or I could just contribute to the e-waste problem and get a new phone (or a refurb; this whole ordeal makes me want to not spend much on phones in the future) that has a consumer-replaceable battery.
Oh, also, I’ve had this phone for less than three years.
Also, an unlocked bootloader and a mature LineageOS or GrapheneOS or whatever other Open-Source no-Google-apps distribution is basically an absolute deal breaker must have for me. (I suppose if I do end up getting a different phone, I could look into Linux phones too, but I’m a little wary of that. I got burned with the Openmoko Neo Freerunner back in the day.) I bought this Pixel direct from the manufacturer (not through a carrier or anything) because that was the only way to get it with an unlocked bootloader so I could go LineageOS. But going that route, I only get the one-year manufacturer’s warranty. No carrier warranty or anything.
So I guess I’ll go go pray to Saint Louis Rossmann now and hope for divine inspiration. Lol.
(Ha! Sorry for the rant. I was an extremely late adopter of smartphones at all because I don’t trust them. This is the first smartphone I’ve ever had and it didn’t last me three years! Clearly I should have remained staunchly Amish for QWERTY. Lol.)