during my k12, we went from PET to apple II and gs (apple was wizards at selling their junk to schools), and finally getting out from under apple and adding a few 386s at the end.

here in the midwest, i see random packages of frozen game meat from the food pantry every now and then. usually venison, sometimes bear… elk once, even. and not always packaged by a commercial meat locker, either.

an image viewer with the feature set and workflow of irfanview on windows.

‘hybrid sleep’ does write the hibernate file before going into ‘sleep mode’. if you have an older system or one that doesn’t use ‘modern standby’ and you have an ssd, you might want to double-check that setting in your power scheme advanced settings.

the culprit is actually probably “fast startup” which writes a hibernate file every shutdown. every “normal” ‘shutdown’… close programs, logoff, hibernate, power off. this feature is unnecessary on systems with ssd but it continues to be enabled by default. it was created in the days of old to make hdd systems appear to boot up faster by not actually starting up windows on every power on.

hibernate isn’t enabled by default.

the other writer of hibernate data, hybrid sleep, doesn’t even exist on a newer system that uses ‘modern standby’… but is enabled by default on desktops that do not.

acrobatics on horseback is most definitely a thing. and it’s absolutely crazy the stunts they can pull off.

you’re on the right track, i think, but not bazzite–that carries a lot of extra stuff that isn’t necessary here. just ordinary fedora silverblue. clean up the app grid or put dash-to-dock on it and put the few launchers they need down on that. gnome is actually a good desktop for basic users that just need to run one or a few applications. updates are somewhat frequent but should be almost entirely automatic.

i have a few users like your parents on endless os, which is similar to silverblue, just based on an in-house immutable debian instead of silverblue’s fedora base. i rarely ever hear from them, it ‘just works’. i also have it at home, it’s currently my only linux desktop there (i do most my ‘work’ at the office, home is just doom-scrolling and media for the most part these days). updates are less frequent but endless is switching to a gnome os base with the next major version. that will probably increase the frequency of updates a bit compared to their older debian base. that upgrade to v7 should be mostly invisible to the user, they’ve done a good job in the past with upgrades.

many were there first, long before microsoft bought the site. but now? yea. why tf are people still using it.

and then there’s also this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_vaulting

like we’re seeing with Android’s “Desktop mode”.

apple is already in on this game, as well.

every day i use windows less than the day before. i still ‘need’ it for some things, including work, but on a personal level it’s almost entirely linux lately… but it’s been a three decade journey.

microsoft ‘lost their way’ years ago in their relentless pursuit of profit.

detroit wins.

minnesota vs michigan. one of the oldest rivalries in college football, dating back to 1892. the gophers have taken home the jug only four times in the last 48 games (1968 to present).

kwiktrip’s ‘quarter pound’ burgers aren’t horrible. they have in-store kitchens, so its not the microwave reheated crap like op that many stores have. better than some fast food chains. the paper thin bacon scrap they use on bacon cheeseburgers is pathetic, though.

our burgers in school were ok, even if they were part soy. this was the 70s and 80s though, before school lunches became outsourced profit centers for greedy corporations. school lunches in general were pretty good… and at college after, even better. was like going to a gourmet all-you-can-eat buffet for every meal (the ‘freshman 15’ was very real back then).

i wonder how often the ceo and board members of companies like conagra ‘eat their own dog food’.

just a hunch, but i’m guessing that’s never.

i’m waiting for them to try dropping blue paint, or food coloring, or fabric dye into it…

it’s what keeps the aliens from making first contact.

still using “www.” like it’s 1993 or something.