Vibration “ringtones” should be a thing. Less likely to confuse with phantom sensations and other people’s phones vibrating.

If it’s too hot. Unless it’s actually frigid in my room, I also tend to kick the blanket off at some point during the night.

This is the stuff I fear about self-driving cars, but now with the middleman hacker cut out. If they ever make self-driving cars mandatory, that’s my cue to move somewhere I can get around with just a bicycle. Or a cabin in the woods.

Interesting, I’ve only had filets and fried nuggets. How’s the taste of texture of ground alligator?

Alligator

6 years of using bottom-of-the-barrel laptops because I wanted to buy new. Not to mention the time wasted “optimizing” them, working around their quirks, and spending a whole day fitting a riveted-in keyboard that was never meant to be serviced. If I had the foresight to buy a used business-grade laptop for $200 when I started, I might as well have daily driven it to this day.

There’s a dark pattern to it as well. I was under the impression that it was mandatory along with handing over my ID.

Unfortunately, I’m only given a choice between Boot Display Devices under that menu.

edit: Apparently, there is a menu for it if the T510 is a later model with Optimus support. Early dGPU variants like mine are forced to use the discrete graphics, even if the BIOS is hacked to reveal the menu.

Neither laptop BIOS offers the option to disable discrete graphics :(

I’ve only heard recommendations for Macrium Reflect, but I’ve never used it myself. Never heard anything bad about it either, should be good if it’s what you are most comfortable with.

For the backup, you might want to try out Clonezilla or Rescuezilla (for a GUI option).

18650s, but the laptops refuse to charge the batteries, so the BMS might be toast already.

Absolutely. I likewise moved to Linux more out of frustration with Windows than any of my own tech ability. It needn’t be a concerted effort either. I had it on a separate SSD (for a more stable dual-boot) and dabbled for a couple of years until I found myself gradually booting into Linux instead of Windows more and more.

Try isolating anything unique to your installation by booting from a live USB of Mint 22.1 or 21.3 and go about your workflow. If it gives the same symptoms, boot from a live USB of Mint 19.3. Hopefully nothing bad happened to your hardware during the update.

Math, particularly snippets from larger manuscripts and documentation thrown around between colleagues. Can’t really predict when they send a .tex and when they send a .md for review.

Plain text is how I have it set up. I have the files named by date in one folder (made effortless with my small script) and a plain text editor on my phone, also pointed to a specific folder. The setup is pretty much ready for Syncthing if I wanted to automate syncing, but I haven’t bothered yet.

I was about to suggest disconnecting the disk until I read that you already tried that. What came up when you removed the disk? The fact that it doesn’t go straight to a boot device selection screen or the BIOS is very curious.

I’m all for insects being a more common part of people’s diets. The taste and texture is amazing and it’s disheartening to see how expensive it is because it’s so niche here. I really should look into farming my own edible insects. Maybe I’m weird, but I find handling raw meat a bit more disgusting than insects.

Tidying up, journalling, writing, or art. Though nothing on a screen and nothing related to eating to avoid brushing my teeth again.

Indeed, I have the means and curiosity to try out biphasic sleeping. Only things that keep me back are having two alarms a night (at least while I’m not used to it) and the fear I’ll get too worked up to fall asleep again.

Sometimes I’ll wake up at 0300 and contemplate trying biphasic sleep. But I fall back asleep before I can muster the courage to get out of bed.