it really depends on what demands you are going to place upon the system…

gaming? have weird hardware? you’re gonna visit a command line and have to ‘research’ things…

but just basic tasks and well-supported hardware? many can give a mostly or even entirely ‘point and click’ experience.

i have a number of users on silverblue and endless that would be terrified if they ever had to open a terminal, and i rarely open a terminal on my own desktops (xfce manjaro, cinnamint, endless, silverblue)

we’re safe from that particular method here in the boonies. we’re lucky to even have one tower from any provider within range anywhere around here.

i know that big magic box in the food room has more.

the twin cities doesn’t have a ‘chinatown’ or a ‘little italy’–they have little canada

that’s when the two scales collide…

-40FC…

‘fucking cold’

it’s your fault. you’re the one that left the best part on top.

you have a bright future ahead of you in for-profit food service at public schools. the only thing missing is the taco sauce ketchup.

i had the spindle adapter to put on a stack of 45s, and also a simple disc that fit down it and just allowed one to sit on the turntable at a time. i didnt’ need to use these snap-in adapters.

it looks like cachyos just makes available anything in arch’s repos that worked for them at that time.

any upgrade or update can ‘break’ something.

mint does have an upgrade path from one major version to the next. the upgrade tool might not be available immediately upon the release of the next version, but in your case it has been around awhile.

https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/upgrade-to-mint-22.html

backups are, of course, your responsibility, as is any unexpected manual customizations or software added from outside mint repositories.

both. and all your friends and ‘friends’, too.

i have a couple dozen older systems sitting around here, mostly 2nd to 4th gen–a few newer, a few older. that i cannot even give away. i’m gonna end up binning all but the ‘best’ 5 or 6 this spring when the recycle truck makes its annual trek here.

throw it up on ebay, get most or all your ‘investment’ back. just make it the cheapest comparable BIN.

the “real id” marked state id and dl also do, but have also been ignored by the police state.

people have proved their status or citizenship only to be assaulted and detained anyway…

so, FUCK OFF.

so they also chose the venue? that venue??

like this DoJ would actually follow laws that get in the way of carrying-out the rapist-in-chief’s (also illegal) orders.

in my rural part of the u.s., the telco only sells dsl to a max of 10 mbps (and as slow as 384kbps if you’re at the end of the signal’s reach–at which point they also charge you more for the shit-tier speeds)… even if you’re literally next door to their central office… and even if they don’t have fiber down your street (which is their reasoning for the artificial limit–to push people towards fiber so they can pull the copper).

when i worked for an ‘authorized agent’, our payments from the carrier were based on number of signups or contracts, and not at all on the cost of phones associated with them.

televisions of the near future when you first turn them on: “Internet connection and account required to complete initial product set up.”