I’ve got an Acer Aspire from 2008 running mint on an Intel Atom and 1 GB memory (might be 2, I forget). It is slow but very usable except for video and such.

This is sort of the plot of Children of Time

Also the miniseries with Kenneth Branagh is pretty good. Then for counterpoint watch The Last Place on Earth

Wild guess here. Looks like the downspout and gutter are also painted matte black, perhaps they had a discount painter paint everything they saw as an external fixture.

Doesn’t look like a camera to me though. Looks more like a very large electronic weather sensor.

I have zero problems with this on Lineage. ?? No spoofing either, just Lineage.

Have enterprise win 11 now and it isnt as bad as that. Its stupid, but not evil.

To think what lengths we went to keep the Win7 launcher

Yeah you usually can. LibreOffice works fine for most things. Some classes need things like Solid works that only run on Windows, and the remote testing software can be a nightmare. You might get an O365 license as part of your enrollment but doubt you really need it.

Protip; learn how to typeset your papers in something like LyX and integrate Zotero for citation management. The typesetting usually got me a few extra points alone.

Yeah this part is truly infuriating

Oh im not defending it. Just saying we’ve been well-fed geese for a very long time now. It has just changed from cramming us full of the Tootsie Pop Owl and the Doublemint Twins with a chaser of Sears Christmas Catalog to a succotash of targeted ads.

I had no idea this was going on. Is it because I’m running Lineage?

No different than the decades of ad supported broadcast television.

Same - can sync snapshots from Truenas to Backblaze.

If you want to get real fancy you could stash an N40L cube server at your mom’s house where she will never find it and VPN back to your local network and replicate snapshots to it

There is also a complete lack of segregation of duties with these things. The companies that install, configure, and maintain also get a cut of the income. This is really bad.

Living next to a few short-term rentals, it is so extremely creepy to have various large groups of people in and out, staring at you and your stuff, blocking the street with Ubers and scooters, and you only think it’s quiet because you’re the house making all the noise.

It sucks to make a neighborhood a nice place to live only to have all that leeched for profit selling to bachelorette parties full of girls going WOOO at 1 AM.

Make sure the cell provider hasn’t banned the model. AT&T banned a bunch of perfectly good unlockable international phones and kept the locked local ones not supporting lineage. They still work of course, just can’t make calls.

There’s a ton of junk - Bixby, the Samsung cloud apps, I have one I have to keep stock for work and another i have Lineage on and the difference is very noticeable, battery drain for one

Already here. It has been used in airport security lines for a few years now

Donkey Kong Country did this to me forever

It worked perfectly well to install though? Like why does it matter if its old