my sister ‘unthaws’ something by taking it out of the freezer.

must be a name–what he calls the shroom in his diaper.

one.

just one.

the whiny orange turd in the big house behind it in the article photograph… who has never even seen it or knew it existed before now.

and by ‘illegals’ they mean ‘brown people’ (regardless of origin or nationality or legal status to work here).

linux mint’s “installers” can boot into a live environment.

and even when you do know what you’re doing, you’re probably choosing not to host your own. at least not one that faces the public. a private mail ‘server’ that consolidates mail for you from multiple providers (and sends mail back out the same way) is different.

i have an old wood desk at the office. it just resonates and amplifies noise when i set a desktop form factor external hdd (with its attached rubber feet) on it. it now sits on a couple old-school foam rubber mouse mats.

don’t expect a 19 year old laptop to perform all the tricks something more ‘modern’ can do, such as transcoding video for a streaming media server. also note that a t5600 is not a ulv chip (draws as much as 34w under load, on its own)–so probably not a candidate to run ‘lid down’ without some outside help for cooling.

it’s not fast, it’s not power efficient, it has slow networking (10/100 and 22-year old ‘g’ wifi), and lacks usb3 for ‘tolerable’ speed on extra external storage space—but it will be ‘ok enough’ for learning on.

if you go with something like yunohost or even dietpi, you will pretty much restrict yourself to what it can run and do and how it does it. if you want more ‘control’ or to install things they don’t offer themselves, you’ll need to ‘roll your own’. a base (console only) debian would be a great place to start. popular, stable, and tons of online resources and tutorials.

i use dietpi, which is built upon a minimal debian.

office back in the 9x days you could just use all 1’s.

that’s the one i remember… and the picture of it next to the release countdown at microsoft’s offices.

they actually still ‘win’, because you’re still using their platform.

just a step or two removed from what’s probably their ultimate goal: a unique guid for every device, that you can’t change, can’t remove, can’t decline, and is always with you–including linking multiple devices when you log-in to the same account somewhere across googleland from them.

yea, you don’t want ‘ai’ in your firefox.

so? don’t install it.

it’s an addon. you don’t have it if you don’t go and get it.

it’s effective, timely, accurate, and profitable.

ofc they’re gonna use the audio, too; where and when possible.

that’s the new boobs doc.

except they gave it back to the wrong china.

prc didn’t exist back then.

roc is the successor state to the one that made that deal with britain.

when i finally dumped cable (which i had pretty much just for broadcast reception and one cable network), i figured i’d sub to services instead. i could basically get all the major ones and still have money left over.

or so i foolishly thought.

it’s been like a year and a half…

number of months paid for streaming services: zero

my greedy landlord got all that ‘saved’ money instead.

wmp still exists, but microsoft has neglected it for years–pushing the ‘app’ shit instead.

on win11, you should find ‘windows media player legacy’ hiding in ‘windows tools’.

the ‘ai chatbot’ in the ‘lab’ is different.

the chatbot is just basically an optional conduit between you and and a third party ai-powered ‘search’/‘chat’ service, so that you can use firefox to access it.

you’re still subject to any rules, policies, costs, account requirements, usage limits, etc. set by those third-parties.