Many ex cops work in retail.

Oh sure. It’s not perfect but it could be so much worse. All in all he’s doing fine.

My father is 85, used to be a dev. No issues, maintains his file sync between his two sites by himself via various clouds. Sticks to Windows.

Can’t get him to use proper passwords (as in random generated stuff from his password manager) though, he insists on needlessly peppering the weak-ish passwords he comes up with and storing that in his decent password manager instead. I guess you can’t win them all.

Tumbleweed will update six months of packages or more without breaking a sweat. It’s all about using something sturdy.

And goose eggs are also way better than chicken eggs for a lot of pastry.

Viruses are extremely small compared to bactria. They typically can’t be resolved optically. The study of micro organisms would be microbiology if you want to be broad.

Viewing a virus with a microscope would be quite something.

Good luck making gears though.

There are so many open filesystems that I’m not sure that it’s really a valid issue. It’s more that MS values compatibility with prehistoric stuff more than anything. If it was up to them, we’d still be using wax tablets and styluses for compatibility’s sake.

They did manage to move beyond BMP images, so anything is possible.

We don’t want a viditor, we want an editor. Why? Because ed is the standard!

I don’t know how much of a killswitch the US has on their hardware. What if you use a plane of theirs in a way they don’t approve of?

I’d be wary of buying complex US hardware.

I think Windows is simply an easier and more straightforward system.

For example, list the processes on a windows system. Nobody has the faintest idea what half of them are. Do the same on Linux and there’s maybe 10 you’ll have to look up. Windows is a mess of interconnected and piled upon crud. Unix may not be perfect but at least it makes sense.

It hasn’t been the right week to quit yet.

I thought that the lemons had been stolen by those naughty ladies.

3.11? Which couldn’t even network properly?

Right click widget, select options, click on show date, or day or whatever, click apply, done.

I don’t know what bizarre stuff Gnome runs but it obviously hasn’t gotten better.

That’s not a linux question. That’s related to whatever desktop environment is running and what clock or calendar widget it can display.

Because linux users are people familiar with computers. The general public can barely use windows, they can’t realistically install an operating system. If you think people can install windows, I’m afraid that’s quite unlikely.

You’re clearly surrounded by tech savvy users. Don’t confuse them with regular users. They have nothing in common.

Well, there goes my pet theory then.