My sample size is three, with the current one being an X399-A first-gen Threadripper board bought on Black Friday of 2017. The only issue I've had that could be attributed specifically to that motherboard was lack of Linux kernel support for the onboard it-87 sensor chip variant at the time I bought it.
Your friend's notebook sound like everything except the mobo is breaking on him. 😜
"We do not provide a service to remove our staff from the paper bags before use."
Yeah, OpenSCAD is purely a CAD program with no support for CAM, which is the toolpaths part. FreeCAD is the only reasonably mature multiplatform open-source CAM-supporting software that I'm aware of, although there might be something Windows-specific or Web-based that I haven't found. There may be a Blender plugin somewhere, but I wouldn't trust it.
There was a time when they were good, but that time is long, long gone.
I haven't had any problem with their boards either, but that's a sample size of less than half-a-dozen, strictly AMD-based mobos. Really not definitive, and I believe the people who say they've gotten multiple bad Asus boards.
In the end, it's down to luck. Every manufacturer sends out some percentage of products that have undetected faults or are damaged in shipping. What that percentage is depends on QA and product design. I wouldn't be surprised to find that Asus had some boards with design issues that led to high failure rates, while others are solid.
"My free speech, not your free speech." Pretty common attitude among freeze peach evangelists.
The main difference between Ubuntu and Fedora is the package manager. Most of the rest is just selected default values for configuration and cosmetics, and what helper scripts are or aren't present on the system. They're both mainstream distributions aimed at the general user, and they're shaped by their goals.
To see how different distributions can be, you need to compare the mainstream distributions to stuff that's decidedly not mainstream, like Gentoo, Alpine, and Nix.
Just as a trivia note: Gentoo does package a couple of other distros' package managers (app-arch/rpm and app-arch/dpkg), for use in installing otherwise-unavailable commercial binaries, although I suspect app-arch/rpm2targz sees more use than either of them.
Given the general interest over the past few decades in restoring heirloom vegetable and fruit cultivars, this seems both backward and abysmally stupid. The only way this might make sense is if the "goes green under prolonged light exposure" issue means that light exposure causes them to develop a toxic level of glycoalkaloids, and I couldn't find anything to suggest that. There also seems to be some question as to whether they really are harder to machine-harvest than the worst of other varieties that remain certified.
This smells to me like there was something political involved, probably small-scale, inside the Department of Agriculture, and now lost to time.
Just class him as a vexatious litigant and have done. No new laws required.
A clearly-labeled plastic box smaller than the actual metal meter is not likely to cause this law to be invoked, since there is no way in hell that a reasonable person could mistake it for the real thing. It would be like mistaking a Tonka toy for actual construction equipment.
Was the average Canadian educated in it even then? As far as I can recall, the Charter was barely touched on in any required material during my mandatory schooling. We spent more time on stuff like the internal timeline of the Seven Years' War than we did on any kind of civics.
Granted, that was back in the 20th century. I really hope that the subject matter covered in mandatory education has been rebalanced since then, but I'm not holding my breath for the result having been any better.