My non-tech literate aunt has been running her Ebay business from a laptop running Fedora with unattended upgrades for 3 years now. She manages her expenses in Libreoffice calc and accesses everything else through Chrome and prints labels on an old USB HP printer. I don’t think she’s even noticed I switched her over from Windows 10 when her machine was getting slow.

My Dad’s laptop is also on Fedora (though he mainly just uses an Android tablet these days) and I intend to install it on my Grandma’s PC when Windows 10 stops being supported. So for the people who’d be happy with something like a Chromebook, which is a good chunk of older folks, it’s perfect and I can easily provide support.

That being said if I had to deal with helping kids who wanted to game and use Bluetooth bits and pieces surrounded by RGB crap then yea outside of a few well supported options it could be a nightmare depending on what they’ve got.

Scientists are freaking out about ocean!

Stanley is a UK brand that originally just made flasks. They started making cups in the same style as their flasks and for some reason they recently blew up online.

So no one told ya Phoebe isn’t spelt that way…

Then I will proudly call myself a not particularly smooth criminal.

As much as I like electric cars this could be done with pretty much any petrol or diesel car with an inverter.

So is this version of Mickey, he’s wearing gloves

First experience was trying to dual boot Slackware and Windows ME on the family computer in 2003 after getting a magazine with the install disc on. Nuked the Windows install and got banned from the family PC for a while.

Then I got my own laptop with Windows 98 on it at 18. I’d just found dyne:bolic which was one of the first Linux live CDs if I recall correctly and was designed to work on older hardware (this was mid 00s). That machine served me well for 2 or 3 years.

A few years of bouncing between various distros and Windows followed. Eventually I made the full switch in about 2012 first to Ubuntu then Debian which I’ve been using for the last 5 years or so.

Yea, or do I become me as a six year old in the modern day?

If it was a monkey paw type of situation you’d probably become a six year old child in pre-historic times.

With the red pill, do I go back in time to when I was 6 with all of my knowledge or become a different 6 year old now with all of my knowledge?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN3IiBzKSXA

But not as much as the high seas me heartie…

I don’t want to sound arrogant but is reading a few paragraphs then copying and pasting 3 different commands into a terminal really that difficult?

It will make life easier in the long run as having a repo added will update the software with sudo apt upgrade in the future.

Yup, you’ve done it again

Yea, I live in south Cumbria. I couldn’t believe someone on Lemmy would set foot in my neck of the woods, but here we are.

Coronation chicken was created for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953.

You’re right. I’d best give them a call to be on the safe side. Sure they won’t mind if I explain why.

Lol yea, I forgot that happened.

Don’t think I’ve ever used directory enquiries in my life. I was 16 in 2003 and we already had the internet at home by then.

It did, but the numbers never changed.

I’ve lived in England for all of my 36 years and it’s always been 999.

Another way to say this is the master race are about to upgrade their hardware