That’s the one I was thinking of. It’s a slow process, but it does happen.

This country that we all live in? The country of Lemmy? I know the EU have been pretty good at slapping down Google’s anti-competitive practices recently (though it’s a long and slow process and I’ve not heard any news about this particular one yet).

I think Heroic uses GOGDL

Some good answers in this post from last year, though my vote goes to the classic Bosca Ceoil!

You could try Aurora, it’s made by the same people as Bazzite but with a general (or developer) focus instead of a gamer focus, and while it’s not LTS I think it updates less rapidly than Bazzite.

If your user is really tech un-savvy though, I’d just go with ChromeOS Flex. For all their (many) faults Google do at least produce a simple all-in-one experience, and I’d rather my elderly relative use Chrome’s password manager than no password manager at all.

But I don’t want a light that flashes, I want one that stays on continuously like a torch

Your mum’s so bloated hackers are considering supply chain attacks on her dependencies

Your mum’s so old support for her architecture is being removed from the kernel

Your mum’s so easy I recommended new users switch to her instead of mint

etc, etc

The problem (well, one of the many problems) is that “AI” is a meaningless buzzword slapped on everything by marketing drones. I’m sure there are some real advances that could be made by what five years ago we’d have called “machine learning”, but the chatbots that everyone’s currently obsessing over don’t have anything to do with that.

Isn’t that what the L for Libra means?

Not to be too snarky, but was there ever an assumption that stuff you put in wasn’t being used to train it? Safe to assume that any online service you’re using is making use of the data you’re giving it.

We’re much better at telling if people are alive now, so probably not something to worry about

I think that’s what makes it good for beginners: it’s a lot like a mobile OS. There’s an “app store” where you get your programs (bazaar/flathub) and OS updates just happen automatically. Once you find yourself wanting to tinker then hopefully you’re confident enough to start installing “normal” distros.

I always recommend keeping those backup codes saved in the notes of whatever password manager you’re hopefully using

Wouldn’t this undo some of the security of even having 2FA? If your password manager was somehow breached the attacker would have all your passwords and your 2FA codes, right?

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I’d guess it’s the anti-static bag that one of the components came in. That said, the kind of person who has a copper heatsink probably also has a load-bearing towel.

This is great. And an excellent lesson as to why you comment your hacks!

I’d second this suggestion. Very simple to set up with any old android device you’ve got lying around.

Where’s Horrible Histories?

The law firm that I work for is has finally decided that we should embrace Linux.

Never thought I’d read this sentence. I don’t have any recommendations, just wanted to say congrats on achieving the unthinkable!

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