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Well, every now and again, someone needs to post on the reddit one saying "look at them misidentifying a thing on Lemmy".

They'll either be genuinely helpful types, and join us to help out, or they'll be "someone is wrong on the internet" types, and join us to be correct.

Obviously I have no idea if this would work in practice.

If he wants to do it, he's going to do it - you just make sure there's somewhere you both agree is fine. Telling him "no" won't work as well as "pick him up and put him in front of a thing that's fine to scratch".

We've got the "activity chair", which is covered in toys and string and bits to climb through and jump off, and it's absolutely scratched to pieces - but no other furniture has a mark on it.

Sadly, they probably don't need to. They just needed a "not our fault" 3rd party to supply a report, which is just convincing enough, to last long enough to let the Daily Mail tell its readership that Looney Liberal Left Climate Plans are going to cost £6,000 per year, per household.

It doesn't need to be true, it just needs to be written down.

I guessing I should have checked again before posting! Thank you :)

Yeah, I kind of get what you mean. It's frustrating to see tax money wasted on pointless right-wing-wank-fantasies and bungs of money to their friends' companies, but if they talk about cutting welfare to cut taxes, they're not going to touch landlord benefit, offshore tax benefit, house of lords benefit, too-many-houses benefit etc.

whatisthisthing

It's quite fun tracing some of them back - especially the frontrunners which grew put of backmarkers (though often you find the backmarkers were themselves frontrunners 20 years earlie)r.

For example, Tyrrell were world champions with Jackie Stewart in the 70s, but by the mid 1990s, they were pootling around at the back of the field with Ukyo Katayama.

Tyrrell became British American Racing, which became Honda Racing, which became Braun GP, which became Mercedes, who up until Red Bull's current dominance, were doing pretty well :)

If your city has a "Linux User Group" or maker/hackerspace thing, you might just find you're less alone than you previously thought.

We don't want tax cuts, we want things to work properly again.

Bear in mind that most of what is written above also applies to PopOS - except for the desktop environment being Gnome 3's "Mac-like" rather than Cinnamon's "Windows-Like". There's a few cool little adjustments to both, but this preference may have the biggest impact.

You can always test a "Live USB" of both, which allows you to load the OS directly from a USB stick, without installing anything - to test which seems right (and the same applies to any other distro anyone mentions in the thread). I'm pretty sure a ten minute test of each would give a sufficient amount of "Hmm, that's cool" / "Huh, that's weird" to help things along :)

I'm sure you'll get 20 different recommendations, but if you'd like another one, I'd agree with your original suggestion of Linux Mint.

For someone who's familiar with Windows, they should be able to pick up and use it immediately, it uses the easy to understand traditional desktop visual language, menu bar etc.

As an Ubuntu based OS, you're giving yourself access to a lot of very user friendly forums etc - the vast majority of what applies to Ubuntu applies to Mint. It's currently very well supported based on its popularity.

I only steer away from Ubuntu itself because of the newer versions using non-traditional (perhaps Mac-like?) desktop visual language, and problems with Snaps (fonts, external drives, USB pens, cameras, printers etc not being visible).

Nvidia drivers are sorted during the install. You could happily use it for years without touching the terminal, as long as your install runs smoothly in the first place (wifi/touchpad/sleep etc) - though that should apply to any distro really.

Basically it should work, should be safe and comfortable, should be easy.

He'll have a significantly easier time if he works with the idea that "Games = Steam. No other shop/launcher exists" (same for any distro).

I sometimes offer a little informal tech support to older/less computery people near where I live - Mint tends to be easily picked up and understood, and for most of them, it's now a yearly check-up rather than a weekly panic :)

I absolutely missed the bit about fifteen years ago, where they unconvicted the guy they'd previously convicted.

Not sure if it's more suitable than what's been suggested already, but I use Virtual Volumes View, an open source program to log/index my (disconnected) external drives and older hard drives.

I then keep the database/catalogue in a shared location I can check from my desktop/laptop.

It's an art/architecture project from about ten years ago - there's a bit of info about it on dezeen.com

It would be cool if, like you suggested, it also had some hidden practical purpose, but I think it was just what it was.

They'd pick that up fine when you say "Ah use t'arch by t'way, annumavegan". :)

We have a lot to thank Joshua Ashton for. He started D9VK as a personal project whilst still at school, then went on to work on DXVK etc amongst other things. That bloke works all year round to make Linux gaming work better.

There was a good interview with him on gamingonlinux.com a few years back.

People in Hull: "Why have you painted your white phone boxes red and put royal crowns on top of them?"

Aww mate, sorry to hear that. I've been in those pits before. I hope life, the world, or yourself gives you the break you need, or the support you need to get through it.

To be honest, I'd probably call it "awesome" and be a bit envious. That must pretty much be a state where whatever mood you're in, there's always going to be something you want to play, like someone with an amazing collection of vinyl records, or bookcases full of literature & poetry.

Those are some pretty big numbers on hours played too, so it's not like you've just played each thing for an hour and then chucked it.

I only feel mine's out of control because of the relatively small amount of time I have to play these days, and the amount of unplayed games - I can play a new game every week for about three years, but actually I just stick another ten hours into "Crusader Truck Manager Fortress Rally Tactics III", on average.

Mine's a little out of control at 446 games on the wishlist.

My Steam library is already a little out of control at 547 games.

[Edit] 152 games never played.