Yeah, there’s a lot of niche software for specific needs that’s doesn’t have alternative or have subpar alternatives on Linux. Even as a full-time Linux users and supporter, I still have to acknowledge that the amount of investments gone into enterprise stuff over the year have basically made switching from Windows for a lot of professions almost impossible. Unless we start having more funding and development from state actors, the market share of OS won’t change significantly anytime soon.

I was in Sichuan just this Lunar New Year for a tour and the whole time I have to have my caffeine addiction fixed by either instant coffee I bagged myself or tea. Almost nobody drink coffee over there. There are some coffee shops here and there in tourist attractions but I wasn’t able to locate a place that can make a stiff cup of Joe, most are bland instant coffee like water with milk. Supposedly you would have more luck with that going somewhere more south east and closer to Vietnam

Can I have the sauce for your wallpaper please?!

To add to this comment. You should look out for the ThinkPad T series (no p or s after the number) if you want ease of repairs and upgrade.

Probably will wait until a tear down video is available. Pebbles are nice devices but absolutely garbage at fixability.

Hit me right in the nostalgia with this one. Used to played the heck out of it on SEA and my local country server. The game is super grindy for my taste now but I still feel nostalgic about the community and people there.

You forgot to count 0. The alien should write 4 as 10, not 4.

I will trust it when I see it. The track record of the G7 in solving global warming is atrocious.

You gotta enjoy it for less than… Check calendar… 7 months at least

Sorry if you already move on from this. I don’t know much about Nicaragua to say if you will have any luck with trying to ask the local government for help. However, I lived in a third world country before where if you escalate to the local government, all they do is shrug their shoulder and ask you to move on. Unless you are rich and powerful enough, which would negate all of these problem from even happening from the beginning, to have somebody in the “local government” to help then that road is typically a dead end.

Other stuff you can try is directly appealing to the working crews. Just a little bit of food and some greetings would sometimes give you a lot of information regarding who they are, who they are working for and what they are doing. If you know who they are working for, you can then go and appeal to them, which might solve your issue (or make it worse), but try to asset before reaching out just in-case. Knowing the crew might also reduce the annoyance since people tend to be more considerate around people they know. However, it might not help much if the crew is also under pressure and constraint from their contracts and workload.

Can’t offer help without important details like where you are currently living and who hired the construction crew? Is that under construction building owned by your landlord? Is it some public funded projects? Are you living in Europe or Asia?