Shmurdered Murdered…

Partner and I had just finished school and gotten really good paying jobs, we saved enough money to buy a house and new car and truck. I bought myself a new used truck to haul materials and products when fixing up the new house! 🙏

When I lived in the u.s. and bought my first home, I had similar concerns as you as we were about to buy a lot of high end products to furnish our new home (a new car, dishwasher, vacuum, etc…).

We bought a subscription to “consumer reports” (https://www.consumerreports.org/). They test all types of products and give detailed reports on each product. They also listed some products as “do not buy” for whatever flaws a product may have - this convinced me further as there didn’t seem to be any partiality. We ended up making many purchases, all price ranges up to the price of a new car, based on their recommendations and don’t remember having any post purchase issues.

I don’t know if this can be accessed from your region nor if it covers any brands local to Australia, but it did cover a lot of imported products to the u.s. from Europe and Asia - hopefully this may help you as well.

I am saddened by your loss.

I am of similar ages and anniversary years, and your post resonates strongly with me.

I pray you find whatever you need to deal with this. I am so sorry.

I was working 60+ hours a week chasing promotions, pay raises, and bonuses. Then I’d have to read and study a couple of hours at night to stay current.

Burned myself out. So not worth it.

Thanks for the review. Added to 'to Read’s list.

Lol

I finished reading the second book almost a month ago. I don’t have the urge to start the third anytime soon (though I eventually will so as to get that ‘closure’).

“Two birds with one stone”…

me…

Our two cats are named Peter and Paul. We intend on getting a female tabby and naming her Mary.

Your cute puppy looks like a Marissa. I love popular human names for pets!

What about his background do you find concerning?

ooo, I went to the Framework website. When I get a some ‘disposable’ cash, I will get a framework lappy.

Debian and Fedora, Debian and Fedora. That is a lot of the recommendations I’ve gotten.

Thank you for the reply. Many moons ago I tried to spin up a Arch lappy, but failed. I haven’t tried since (complaints about no free time and such), but I kinda took that fail that I always wanted to go back and try again!

Thank you for the rec. I will have to try nix when i get some time.

Yeah, Atomic is looking to be my next spin with a thinkpad lappy i have.

I have a fondness for Mint. I was able to build a desktop and a laptop with Mint for my parents. They’ve been using them for years now, at least over 5. It just works for them.

I was mostly using Fedora desktop with CentOS servers many years ago. Though, will soon spin up Fedora again.

I feel like you are being a little snarky, but well given because of my post. I will admit I had to spin up Win 10 to finish up some projects as I have so little free time lately.