I was hoping for a story.

As others have mentioned, perhaps while the metaphor is weak, your spirit is strong!

My kid's Chromebooks (I purchased for them before the school provided) reached EOL before they finished elementary school.

I installed Linux (Gentoo) so we could continue using them. When power is correctly configured, they were very cool to use as a quick tool to search for something, answer an email, write a quick document and other simple tasks. They did not work well as workstations as an old Thinkpad might.

Since they are so light, and the battery lasted forever, we would leave them on a counter, and pick them up as needed.

I feel seen.

Mine is a front end for hosted services. Nextcloud, jitsi, and the like.

Neo-Launcher (you can find it on GitHub) is attempting to replace Nova.

They've done a decent job.

Thanks! While flatpaks are not the Gentoo way, I'll give it a try.

LLM speech-to-text.

It appears continuous speech recognition is possible, but I only got as far as recognition of an audio file.

Still very cool!

reFind is superior in this use case, as it will detect and boot any EFI media, even hot plugged.

Did you read the article? Simple text and PDF readers are in the cross hairs. Apps that aren't "engaging" are in the cross hairs.

I expect developers of perfectly fine apps will have to manually vet those apps with Google.

I used this when my son's computer wouldn't boot after a Windows update. None of Microsoft's tools would repair the disk.

I attached it to mine and ran ntfsfix on it. Success!

Can you grab logcat from Android when attempting to stream?

I want to be the owner. <--- see the period there?

Don't you DARE speak French in France unless you're a native speaker!

That country is the reverse complaint put forth in this thread.

This does not support your claim.

Does the USA have an official language?

"No English" can be interpreted many ways. A few examples might be: "It's really hard to learn, I've tried and I just can't get it!" "I don't make enough money to take lessons, and I don't know anyone who will teach me. Will you?" "I've learned some English, but I feel nervous speaking to strangers."

I suppose "I refuse" is possible. I assume people with such an attitude are in the minority (I'm an optimist).

KDE / Qt licenses

Can you point where it's not OSS?

still refuse to learn a single word of English

Do they say this out loud?

Still and all, USA has no national language.

Depends on what the virus is built to do.

I read someone intentionally infected their Linux system with a Windows virus, and they lost the home directory.

It's where Linux really shines, to be honest. Those specs will be fine. Great learning opportunity for the students too.

This. 25 years later, I love her more than ever.

Moral of the story: no clue. But sexiness was absolutely NOT the magic bullet.

Dirk is the current maintainer of the open source dive log software "Subsurface". He took over from Linus.

They dive(ed?) frequently together, and are good friends.

FWIW, you can run all the services simultaneously, so that you can gradually move.

It's what I'm doing. I use echo, home, and HA all at the same time.

Getting out and actually doing something useful and productive can help you view the world in a different way. Be a part of the things that are good about the world.

Volunteer Be with good people

And therapy.

IRC!!

Clarify the question. Make sure I heard it correctly.

No, but you brought back another memory! Star Control. I'm going to have to check it out. Thanks!

I'm beginning to think the game i was wondering about is a fever dream.

That's the son, and thanks! He's got a mean slice, but he knows how to play it. He's got a strong swing (everyone comments), but I know he'll get to the next level with one on one coaching, so that's the goal for summer.

For years I've played bzflag. It's a 3d tank battle game with a variety of play methods (capture the flag, soccer, -em-up, etc).

Other than this, there was once some kind of space opera with combat, politics, and other game functions. I can't remember the name now.

Excellent post. Thank you!

Ok, similar to mine. I'm not on Ubuntu though.

Which Nvidia device? The 970 is currently problematic.

If you believe everyone is human equally:

If you had the same genetics and upbringing as that "bad hombre" , you'd make the same choices.

Install it on your PC and ask if how to install on Android.

Very cool. This coming week's project.

I got more info with increased verbosity:

wine client error:150: write: Bad file descriptor 01a8:err:ntoskrnl:ZwLoadDriver failed to create driver L"\\Registry\\Machine\\System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\lirsgt": c0000142

A little searching found that this is a copy protection file. Interesting because I copied the disc's files to a directory and installed from there. Wondering if installing from the discs themselves would fare better.

Thanks! Increasing verbosity should be useful.

I'll post back when i try that.

Your question is likely too general for a good answer.

What do you need specifically? What makes the solutions you've tried 'meh'? What would make an office suite 'better'?

There used to be a wine-based project specifically for Microsoft office. It was called crossover office. Not sure if it's still maintained.

Good luck!

Yes. You can set a permanent password. So long as the machine is on, rustdesk is running, and you have the password, you'll get in.

Are they grooving with several species of small furry animals in a cave?

I believe you can set it up to auto accept. I'm pretty sure I did that as it was my intention to use it to bring my desktop to my android tablet (which also works well btw).

Ping me tomorrow and I'll double check for you.

I do, and I've used it for a customer.

Server is a VPS running several other services and it doesn't load them much at all. I think the server provides the handshake, and the rest is done on the two clients.