My grandmother ran Linux for a couple decades until her death at 101 years old. My 80+ year old mom has been running Linux for at least 2 decades. Yes, I’m tech support, but I don’t really have to do anything. It just works.
I recently read Kernighan’s UNIX: A History and Memoir. It was pretty interesting. Also, Bell Labs still hosts a page with a lot of links/info for Richie at: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/
There’s this: https://github.com/lextrack/Simple-Screen-Recorder
Disclaimer: I haven’t touched Windows in at least a decade.
I tried FreeBSD for several months about 15-20 years ago. I really liked how clean the filesystem and environment felt, and have suggested it for many people over the years. In the end I couldn’t get around their license vs GPL.
I’m always surprised when these weird freaks believing in trickle-down economics actually exist. Morons who still worship at the fecal stained feet of dementia Reagan.
They need to check gardening supply places.
You can look up the man page for date
. I’m not sure if that’ll do, but it’s pretty easy. Something like date --set="1 MAY 18:00:00"
as root.
I edited my config, and it changed the font size next time I opened kitty. I’m not sure what is happening to you, other than maybe having the config file not where it’s expected.
Did you remove the #
at the start of the font_size
setting?
I’m sure you’ve seen it many times, but I love Bill Hick’s take on marketing.
Better late than never, I suppose.
Become comfortable with the command line. Learn the when and whys of using sudo
. If you aren’t willing to do that, you may not want to stick with Linux. It can have a little bit of a learning curve in the beginning (nothing like what it used to be), but you should get more comfortable in a short time.
The only one I ever used was https://ltsp.org/ , but it’s been years, so I have no idea how it’s doing now. It was great for thin clients.
It’s been some time since I used it on an old laptop, but Puppy Linux was very responsive on shit hardware.
I wish they wouldn’t advertise days of battery life, when their “day” is 1/2 an hour. Just say how many hours the battery will run. The math for how long it’ll run for my use is not rocket science. It’s good to see color E Ink in a reasonable price range. I think I’ll wait for the size to increase while staying affordable.
I don’t think you’ll get anything that is a real drop in for Partiful.
Sounds interesting. I’d imagine it would make it easier to seal off the electronics and have a drink-proof keyboard.
That was my thought as well. I’m also thinking it might be a challenge to get something to read them in 100 years.