i have only ever had basic phones, dating back to my first nokia ~ 25 years ago. i don’t have the need or desire to have an android or iphone. one time. just once, ever–i enabled cellular data on my phone so i could look something up–the current weather forecast (in the kai weather ‘app’) because it started to look like i might get stranded out in a bad storm and i forgot to check the forecast before i left.

always forget that there’s a big ad spot on the home page.

i helped someone set up theirs a little while back… i’m like, “oh, so that’s what’s supposed to be there…”; followed by a “i can help you get rid of those if you want…”

it’s similar. in a mainstream distribution with a desktop environment, updates can typically be configured to notify you or install automatically. it’s common for those updates to now also include third-party sources like flathub.

upgrades (to a next point release or major version) are different, some can be fairly straightforward–others, not so much. and those upgrades will be more frequent, as the “lifecycle” for most linux distributions is shorter than windows’ 10 years.

https://leta.mullvad.net/ uses Brave or Google

thanks for this one. i’m currently trying out their encrypted and adblocking dns on the hotspot i set up on dietpi to isolate ‘streaming’ devices, comparing its effectiveness to pihole and adguard home.

openoffice is an apache project, created when oracle gave them the code and rights to the openoffice project. ibm later donated symphony to them. anyone familiar with apache knows they do things their own way, and usually slowly.

libreoffice originated from a fork when openoffice’s status under oracle was in doubt. it progresses faster than apache, as most developers also switched.

onlyoffice is an entirely different application. decent enough, but with its own quirks. it can also be slow on lower-spec systems due to the heavy reliance on js. originally a latvian-russian project, it was reorganized (via new corporate entities in uk and sg) to hide the russian ties for ‘reasons’.

on the linked page, i get a giant header image and headline, followed by the article text (which accounts for just 15% of the vertical space on my 16:10 screen).

when i scroll as you have, there’s no elements glued to the top getting in the way.

(ubo and um both enabled)

sounds like a ‘service problem’ someone once spoke about…

acquire your ms office ‘elsewhere’ and never link it to a ms account. same with windows. no msa, no ‘cloud’ to save to.

and there is a service problem here.

the new libreoffice won’t run on your vista.

that’s where most of my ‘issues’ come from when upgrading an old debian… upstream version changes to major software packages (python, php, even apache 1.x to 2 back in the day) that require some manual intervention

it’s really not their responsibility to babysit user-initiated configuration changes and third-party software during updates and upgrades. the user makes the changes that go ‘off book’ and uses ‘non debian’ software–so that is where the responsibility lies.

and we’re moving… we’re moving… we’re moving…

this way, gentlemen.

next, we’re off to the royal bathroom where the king-to-be stores his most precious of national secrets. replicas will be available for purchase.

the joy of not having any microsoft accounts.

although i still do have to deal with this shit every day for other people. the ‘best’ ones are those with only a voice number on their account for a verification, from back before they went sms-only for phone numbers.

‘decision anxiety’ is definitely real. there’s literally too many choices and different ways to deliver the same end result.

ubuntu studio is an excellent choice for your use case. you just gotta jump in with both feet

video chatting with a screen visible to the driver? fk no. also his setup and use of it violates cvc 27602.

it wasn’t the ohio river, it was the lake in caesar creek state park, which feeds into the nearby little miami ~ 50 miles north of cincy and the ohio.

there’s probably a commission system built-in to pay the value of a month’s rent or something to the ‘agent’ when you sign a lease. which means, of course, they’re financially motivated to steer you to better paying properties (for them), not better units or locations for you.

the intel alder lake-n and twin lake-n have some chips with very low tdp… basically just the “e cores” from a desktop cpu, drawing as little as 6w tdp. nice chips if you don’t need the raw compute power of the desktop’s performance cores. they make for nice little servers and laptops for ‘normal’ users. minipc form factor desktops with them are very affordable.

i like my laptop ‘server’. low power chip that never throttles up to its max 15w tdp, runs cool with display off and lid closed, needs no kb and mouse attached, and the battery is just a bonus ups. it sits out of the way on a shelf like a book.

don’t forget to pick up the original, which is also free. i put in way more hours into it than i care to admit when it was a new game.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/postal_classic_and_uncut

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