It keeps getting worse, too. The nineties wasn’t that long ago. I swear.

I put Linux mint on my 2016 laptop. It runs great.

I’m deaf in one ear. This here is my mute button.

I felt I was being pretty specific about “the most popular”. If the most popular instance is dead, we got problems.

Passenger vehicles and homes and most businesses could be covered by solar and wind, but oil will still be used for quite a while for cargo shipping and commercial trucks and things like tires. We could use a lot less, but oil is going to hang around for quite a while. Passenger vehicles account for about 25% of oil used.

Part of the issue (I feel a large part ) is that the learning curve is too steep to get on Lemmy

Now I’m not saying it’s hard at all; but it’s significantly higher than simply “go to a main page and create a user name and password”. Lemmy needs a sign up page that just random signs you up to an active instance (per the instances permission) and automatically subscribes you to the 50 most active instances to just get you started up.

Making a getting started page that’s as idiot proof as any .com would probably go a long ways into upping our numbers here.

Only thing I haven’t got to work yet for some reason is my windscribe VPN application. Easy move, really. Mint cinnamon.

An unprovoked war on most any country will likely spark sanctions and hurt the economy. Trump doesn’t give a shit about the economy. He cares about himself. That should be obvious to you as well. He’ll start a war just to try and keep in power. It’s why he’s already trying to claim he doesn’t need permission from the rest of the government to attack countries or take lands.

He wants a war before midterms as a reason to prevent them.

“the US” doesn’t want these things. Trump had the lowest 4 year average approval rating on any US president ever his first 4 year term, and he’s currently beating that by a lot this term so far. The people running the US are corrupt, wealthy, grifters. The elections are rigged by being gerrymandered all to hell (or worse) and protests are useless.

Hit the turbo button and go from a measly 30Mhz speed to the insane levels of 33Mhz.

For the younger Gen and the non computer savvy: Yeah. We went from 1 cpu core that would go like 30Mhz in the early 90s, to having 12 cpu cores running at around 5,000Mhz now. All while getting way, way, easier to build a PC from parts.

I don’t need to see these to make me feel old…

Lots of people. Way too many. Same with the BS TV doctors like dr Oz and dr Phill. Lotta dumb and gullible people out there.

I happened to enjoy most of the assigned books. I’d have the same issue in class with the amount of time given on each book, but I’d use it to my advantage. I’d usually just read each book twice on my own, chill out and more or less slack off while in class, and still answer any questions or do the work better than anyone else because I knew the subject matter better than any other students. I’d ready something like the oddesey a couple times over a weekend and then have a month where I didn’t have to use any effort at all in that class.

I give my grandma props to my reading. I went over to Grandma and Grandpa’s a lot and from the age of like 1 she would read me childrens picture books. Many times I’d ask for the same one again and again and shed lovingly read it to me. I could follow along looking at the words (she’d point with her finger at each word as she read) long before I learned sounds each letter would make. I could just recognize a word by what the word looked like in the book. I could read at a 5th grade level in first grade, and by 5th grade I tested out to its max of 12+.

Thanks, Grandma. Miss you.

We don’t get gassed on trains.

Or, I can just not use a program like chocolatey and just go one and done on ninite. Heaven forbid they only have apps on there to choose from that are popular and people want to install. I’ve never had issues with any of the programs being behind on version, but it isn’t like each program can’t check for newer versions of itself

Yes, and it will work out great for me with Nexus mods behind using it as their Linux game testing machine. But I’m in no hurry to drop windows 10 from my current game PC before November. That’s when I’ll pick which distro I want to use. If the official steam OS isn’t fleshed out by then, I’ll likely go with Bazite.

The real mvp comes from one of the best website hosts in the world. If you have to be on windows and especially if you’re setting up a fresh install; use www.ninite.com.

It bypasses all the prompts and warnings and opt in\out prompts of a ton of common programs you’d want to install on your PC into one single and quick install. You check mark each of the programs you want from the list (web browsers, anti virus, video players, etc) and it hands you over a single install file to take care of automatically installing them all at once. Best website their is if you’re a windows user. I’ve counted on this gem for well over a decade. I only have one PC left that I keep windows on now, and I’ll be swapping that over to Linux as well by November this year when windows 10 stops getting security updates.

Back in the day, you’d keep a small TV next to your computer so you have something to do while you wait for a page to load or download a 3MB file.

Australia is a globally poor country (by total in the country. Individually you’re doing well) with a small population surrounded by a lot of water.

If you think things that work in a country like Australia with a mere 27 million people can work the same as a place like the USA with a population of 340 million and land bordered with Mexico and Canada, you’re thinking like a child.