My non-tech literate aunt has been running her Ebay business from a laptop running Fedora with unattended upgrades for 3 years now. She manages her expenses in Libreoffice calc and accesses everything else through Chrome and prints labels on an old USB HP printer. I don’t think she’s even noticed I switched her over from Windows 10 when her machine was getting slow.
My Dad’s laptop is also on Fedora (though he mainly just uses an Android tablet these days) and I intend to install it on my Grandma’s PC when Windows 10 stops being supported. So for the people who’d be happy with something like a Chromebook, which is a good chunk of older folks, it’s perfect and I can easily provide support.
That being said if I had to deal with helping kids who wanted to game and use Bluetooth bits and pieces surrounded by RGB crap then yea outside of a few well supported options it could be a nightmare depending on what they’ve got.
I can’t afford to buy one right now, which I’m sure is the same for a lot of people and a reason they’re struggling, but I’d love to own one of their bikes.
Pretty much, but the comment I was replying to already contained most of the words I knew so just chipping in rat-arsed and fucked seemed a bit pointless.
Sony, Philips and Polygram introduce a revolutionary new digital audio system called a Compact Disc, that contains up to 1 hour of uninterrupted music. The introduction also came along with 16 titles, in Compact Disc format, from CBS Records....
CDs were a total game changer but they’re fragile as all hell. Everybody said that CDs were dust proof and scratch proof when they came out which was bullshit. I can’t find it but the BBC’s Tomorrow’s World did a segment where they spread butter and jam all over a CD then put it into a CD player and it supposedly worked. Closest thing I could find was this Australian show from 1982 where they said you could bump a CD player and it would keep playing. I had a Discman and you had to hold it totally level or it skipped immediately www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tx6TYnPat8
Nancy Pelosi (age 20) at JFK’s inauguration, 1961 (sh.itjust.works)
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Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧📈 (gs.statcounter.com)
Men over 30, what, if anything, do you watch on YouTube?
Looking for some hidden gems
Goth rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Guess the Episode [Hard] (lemmy.world)
1 point for the episode, 1.3 points for the gag, points are made up and don’t matter like security at the nuclear power plant.
They complained about this ad... (lemmy.today)
…because it says “us” instead of “we”
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Source
Metallica: Enter Sandman (1991) (www.youtube.com)
CEO Espen Digernes acquires bankrupt Swedish e-motorbike manufacturer Cake (tech.eu)
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TODAY IN ROCK AND ROLL HISTORY - 03/02/1983 (2.bp.blogspot.com)
Sony, Philips and Polygram introduce a revolutionary new digital audio system called a Compact Disc, that contains up to 1 hour of uninterrupted music. The introduction also came along with 16 titles, in Compact Disc format, from CBS Records....
Heople (sopuli.xyz)
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CAFFEINE IS GREAT (lemmy.world)
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Guess the Episode [Genius at Work] (lemmy.world)
1 point for the episode/main plot. 1 point for the joke/scene....
Idiotic spammers trying to extort me, claiming they hacked my webcam and got video of me jerking off, so I have to pay them on bitcoin. (lemmy.ml)
Plot twitst: I dont have any webcams. Lol.
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