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  • You’ve never used function keys? The dual function is annoying even inside the OS. I have to help several people with laptops and you can’t tell what mode they’re in, the user often doesn’t know either.

    On laptops, you never know if the F-key behavior is defined by the OS, BIOS or keyboard driver. I just mash F2, F8, Fn+F2, Fn+F8, Del as often as I can (these are the most common keys to do the trick). You can reduce the options with a USB keyboard with just normal F-keys.

    Some laptops don’t have a key you can hold to enter BIOS settings or boot menu (maybe to start booting before the keyboard is initialized?) and there is a reset button hole for that.



  • Even basic things in distros are quite different, for example the frontend for settings, so tech support threads will show how to do it in the backend. Oh well, but then there’s someone who suggests

    sudo nano /etc/default/grub
    

    If you’re a noob, run this and get a “nano: command not found” error, you’ll google it and learn to resolve it using apt. However, Manjaro’s package manager is pacman but you don’t know, so you install apt using a weird guide without knowing what it even is. The next update then wreaks havoc on your system.

    My first install ended in a dependency hell because of this.



  • Wanted to customize GRUB and tried the GUI program. I wanted it to boot without delays unless a key is being held, and also add a “Shutdown” option (GRUB script halt), in case I open the laptop and didn’t want it turned on. The edits looked alright in GRUB Customizer but I should not have made them both at once, because it made “Shutdown” the default option somehow, so the OS would never boot and holding none of the special keys worked. I failed to update or reinstall GRUB using a live USB and ended up having to reinstall the entire distro.


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    Nah, likely just incorrectly declared and the importer failed to respond to a tax evasion fine. The Czech Republic is pretty lax when it comes to regulating such things (heck, even this was allowed). They could be legalized without a CE certificate, just some paper work.





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    TL;DR My country’s customs officers seem to have misappropriated 7 buttplugs, 8 Venus ball sets, 3 non-USB penis devices and 7 sets of BDSM straps.

    We had a large shipment of illegal sex toys seized in the Czech Republic, and the customs office held an auction with publicly disclosed contents of the package. There were several suspicious amounts. I have a copy of the list:

    Not auctioned individually, only as a complete set. 1 CZK ≈ 0.04 USD. Yes, we have words for sex toy but they specifically chose more formal wording.

    Item Description of the auctioned item Qty Unit price CZK total
    1 Erotic aid - anal jewel, 3 pcs/set 594 300 ($13) 178 200,00 ($7722)
    2 Erotic aid case 300 210  ($9) 63 000,00 ($2700)
    3 Erotic aid (penis) 40 600 ($25) 24 000,00 ($1000)
    4 Electric pump 40 90  ($4) 3 600,00  ($160)
    5 Sex aid - straps 193 300 ($13) 57 900,00 ($2509)
    6 Erotic aid - anal jewel with tail 99 210  ($9) 20 790,00  ($891)
    7 Erotic aid for penis without USB 77 300 ($13) 23 100,00 ($1001)
    8 Venus balls 112 300 ($13) 33 600,00 ($1456)
    9 Enema 210 120  ($5) 25 200,00 ($1050)
    10 Enema with black pouch 30 150  ($7) 4 500,00  ($210)
    Total price (CZK) 433 890,00 ($18,315)
    Auction start at (CZK) 144 630,00  ($6105)

    The goods have been legalized for resale in the EU even though some lack CE certification.

    Auction notice including photos (Czech, PDF, 9,74 MiB) / Deep-L’s English translation of the document (view in browser) - gets interesting on page 5, or just click the hyperlinked items for extracted images (only 6 seems to have been published)

    Above is translation of a Reddit comment I had made here but since overwritten with a power-delete tool.