I’ll have to give that one a try!

Pax Imperia: Eminent Domain. Quite a learning curve, but I loved the different ways you can win (conquest, trade, black ops) and how much you could customize your ships or pick unique races with tolerances for different planets.

Game strategy advice for a 30+ year old game? I love this so much, you guys are awesome.

omg YES. Nothing I have found since then has quite scratched the same itch of flying around with a friend on some random dude’s server. So much fun!

Puppy was going to me my suggestion too, before I read that you’d already used it. Maybe try some of the other versions? If you used a Debian- or Ubuntu-based Puppy, you could try a Slack-based one, or vice-versa. Puppy’s organization is a little confusing, in my opinion, but it does give a user some options. You also might try some of the “puplets” that aren’t official Puppy distros but are part of the Puppy family.

https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/family-tree.html

It’s always been remarkable how much editorial independence student editors of law reviews have. Now we see universities betraying their free speech principles because power trumps ethics every time if it thinks it can get away with it.

I’m fine with this, particularly since you can just tick the box and still access them. Linux Mint is such a good gateway for new Linux users, it makes sense to hide unverified flatpaks until they understand the risks. Plenty of people (perhaps myself included) won’t ever need to worry about unverified flatpacks if their needs are simple and they don’t add much beyond the standard software.

I haven’t yet, I will try to follow your process and see if it works.

It is really weird to have a distro that is so mature and competent at just about everything else, and then it just doesn’t upgrade at all. I had an older family member on Mint a few years ago and they were very happy with it, but they ran into trouble on the upgrade, and after it went past the service period and they go stuck on older versions of Firefox, etc., they gave up and went back to Windows.

Glad I’m not the only one having trouble, my LMDE is less than 90 days from end-of-support, and the mintupgrade tool isn’t working for me. At my skill level, I’ve resigned myself to doing a fresh install, but it’s very frustrating. I typically use Mint because I don’t want to have to do that level of configuration and legwork, and it’s a bit off-putting.

Mint

I definitely found Linux Mint the easiest version to switch to, coming from Windows. All the menus and icons were basically where I expected to find them. I couldn’t have cared less about Wayland support, I just wanted to do basic tasks and for my printer to work, and Mint did that out of the box.

This sort of treatment costs so little to install, just a few thousand euros and political will. And the tragedy is that most towns could easily come up with the former but can’t muster the latter.

Naw, people on foot and on bike mix pretty well, it’s the 2±tonne metal cages that ruin cities.

There are some income thresholds that cap fees, and the charge is lower for passenger vehicles than commercial vehicles. It’s not perfect, and I’d like to see higher fees for pickup trucks and SUVs, but there are some fee tiers.

CNBC did a piece last year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjG_8zFVFAw

Honestly, this is good advice. It’s much better to keep personal computer activity on a personal device, whether that’s on a ThinkPad or anything else.

Martha Wells’ Murderbot series is funny, fast, and breezy. The first one, All Systems Red, is basically novella length, and a good yarn.

I have a soft spot in my heart for Puppy Linux, I had a laptop hard drive fail on me when I was in school and I couldn’t afford a new one. I made it through the last semester booting Puppy Linux from a USB drive. It was no-frills, but it worked.

My life is a little better knowing this fact. 😄

ChatGPT is pretty crap branding too, for the record. They just somehow managed to mainstream it. All the LLMs after it try to have cooler names (Bard, Copilot, etc.) but the kludgy first name is still better known.

Easier said than done sometimes. That’s the advantage of Ubuntu, Mint, etc. — they minimize the number of weird quirks you run into.