“extra fingers, too many fingers, not toasted, bad anatomy,” got me. It’s perfect.

Also, your username is perfect for this moment.

I hope I’m rocking that hard at 84.

My next non-alcohol bubbly drink will be in your honor, Larry.

Great summary bot, as ever. But missed this absolute gem from the comments:

“Thanks for helping me wardrive and steal the WiFi from that dentist, Larry.”

with debian you are asked to choose the environment: xfce, mate… how troublesome is to change those after installation?

I just install whichever ones look interesting, and pick the one I want to use, today, from the drop down, on the login screen.

Yeah. I finally switched and learned that what I loved about Ubuntu exists in Debian, without the extra nonsense.

If you don’t mind learning a lot of JavaScript, a Script monkey style Solution can do this for you.

Press F12 - choose the console tab, type “debugger” and hit enter. If that doesn’t stop everything, a “console.break()” may also be needed.

Edit: This looks promising: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/javascript-toggler/

My reaction to this delightful update:

Yeah. This is going to suck worse before it gets any better. The good news is that all the useful content (outside of sales gardens) is going to be here in the Fediverse.

The other good news is that the state of Cybersecurity investment is abysmal, and the walled garden content is going to get breached/leaked/pirated a lot, for a long time to come.

https://pine64.com/product/pinetime-smartwatch-sealed/

The PineTime will get you quite a bit of your list, while you save up for something else:

• affordable ~$30
• battery life: I charge it about every 4 days, out of habit, but it seems like it should go for over a week as it has half battery left when I recharge
• notifications, media controls
• no vendor lock in
• ability to turn stuff off, it’s fully open source, no vendor is forcing features

Does that mean they’re prepping to sell to Elon Musk at well above market value only to get enshitified? It’s not clear to me what’s mandatory after you fire JD…

I got through some of it then life got busy. It was a good and interesting experiences. I didn’t finish with a fully functional hand crafted artisinal home desktop, though.

I’m wrong. Good catch.

Basically any mainstream Linux distro is easy enough for a child, today.

For kids who can read tell them to press that ‘Windows’ key, and start typing what they’re looking for.

For younger kids, place appropriate icons on their desktop.

I do my parental controls at the network level (PiHole, etc), so I haven’t looked much into parental controls on the Linux host, itself.

I have started to favor PopOS, because it is familiar, because it looks a lot like SteamOs, what their SteamDeck runs, when they reboot into desktop mode, in order to mod their Minecraft.

I can confirm. My little ones have been running Linux for years.

I see that you’re trying to bait us, but the Cult of Debian doesn’t talk about the Cult of Debian.

Wait, I didn’t mean to-

Agreed in principle, but in practice, I find it’s rarely a problem.

While editing, we pick an export tool for all editors and stick to it.

Once the document is stable, we export it to HTML or PDF and it’ll be stable forever.

We’ll pull out and you guys will be completely fucked. Have fun!"

Don’t threaten me with a good time! /s :)

Whoops…

Well I thought your comment was insightful and relevant here, anyway. Thanks!

Yep!

But maybe an injection of speculative casual short term investors is exactly what it needs to get back on it’s feet. /s