i have my boss’s old one here that’s pretty much only used for testing mobile web and for its camera. i use a ‘dumb’ phone, and its camera doesn’t work (was crap-tier anyway when it did). i think it has 10 on it. it doesn’t leave the office, doesn’t get used that much, and has no google account linked to it anymore since it was totally reset when it was replaced earlier in the year… the inability to use google play to install a few apps reduces its usefulness. i got f-droid on it but not everything is available from it.

it probably is. he can’t rename the department of defense without congressional action, but apparently the moron-in-chief can make up ‘secondary’ names and titles:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/05/trump-legally-rename-department-of-defense-war/85990088007/

“I haven’t seen Mexico since I was four,” Ceballos said. “I don’t speak Spanish anymore. If I get deported it would wreck my life.”

that’s ok. you could just as easily be shipped off to africa or something instead.

it was at 50 percent in aug 2024’s survey… that last 15 percent to 65 took over a year to achieve.

the paid scam is 30usd for a year of extended updates.

(the first year only, i’m guessing… if they did it like win7, the price will ramp-up year 2 and again year 3).

They dropped 7, 8, and 8.1 at the same time, January 1st 2024

the actual ‘end of service’ dates for win7 (with the max 3 years esu) and 8/8.1 all occurred during the first half of 2023… so they gave a whole six months of extra life on those versions.

if you want the full american experience, pay $10 + tip for a lukewarm (by the time you get it) cup of water and a lipton tea bag from room service.

beginning??

have you been in a coma the last nine years?

if that’s all you need it to do: browser, kitra, libreoffice and not much else… any mainstream distribution will work.

fedora’s ‘atomic’ distributions tick your boxes. minimal terminal exposure, hard to break, and infrequent demands of user password.

silverblue (gnome) or kinoite (kde). kde is a traditional desktop experience, but gnome would be excellent for your rather basic set-up.

“free willy”

little beau peep

as if that’s all it took to lower prices. companies are gonna look at this as ‘free profit’ and keep them high, pocketing the ‘savings’ for as long as they can.

my guess is someone big wants it and offered to pay enough to fund it, so canonical is just opening up the same support timeframe to anyone willing cough-up some cash.

pictures are taken by sorting machines of every piece of mail that goes through usps. that data is retained by the usps for a period of time, and is open to ‘law enforcement’ on request; and who knows what really happens to that data when the usps doesn’t want to hold it any longer.

rotisserie chickens are bred for that purpose and their lives are cut short to meet the cost and weight targets of the largest customers (walmart, etc), which means the facilities can produce ‘more’ in the same amount of time than roasters. they cost $6-10 here and $5-6 on sale (higher $ is at the regional convenience store chain, lower is wm), and i can frequently find ‘old’ ones in the cooler at wm marked down to $2 (yea, just two bucks each).

roasters are larger, priced by weight, and usually cost more (per bird) than rotisserie chicken. here, they’re $10-12 at wm, $15 and up at the ‘local’ grocery store. they’re rarely on sale.

and some are, apparently, obscure af:

“an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”

the dude is a clearly a product of that 48th out of 50 public education system… and the only sitting u.s. senator without at least a bachelor’s degree.

the blood isn’t being “lost”, just “redirected”

not shown: the small hose that ‘naturally’ refills the jacket.

tgt’s last quarterly loss (negative net income) was over a decade ago, and it was just one quarter.