I’ve got an Acer Aspire from 2008 running mint on an Intel Atom and 1 GB memory (might be 2, I forget). It is slow but very usable except for video and such.

Do you have the original disc? As I recall Wine runs it just fine.

This is sort of the plot of Children of Time

Yeah its pretty bad. I have two dell latitudes, one from about 2015 and one newish one. Opensuse on the old one, Win11 on the new one, guess which one isn’t all laggy

Also the miniseries with Kenneth Branagh is pretty good. Then for counterpoint watch The Last Place on Earth

Not exactly daily but the shovel I use to clean out my grill ashes was my grandfather’s, hand forged and used for branding iron fires, gotta be 100 years old. Then a phonograph from 1960.

I have zero problems with this on Lineage. ?? No spoofing either, just Lineage.

Yeah you usually can. LibreOffice works fine for most things. Some classes need things like Solid works that only run on Windows, and the remote testing software can be a nightmare. You might get an O365 license as part of your enrollment but doubt you really need it.

Protip; learn how to typeset your papers in something like LyX and integrate Zotero for citation management. The typesetting usually got me a few extra points alone.

Yeah this part is truly infuriating

Oh im not defending it. Just saying we’ve been well-fed geese for a very long time now. It has just changed from cramming us full of the Tootsie Pop Owl and the Doublemint Twins with a chaser of Sears Christmas Catalog to a succotash of targeted ads.

He knew the throttle wire trick

I had no idea this was going on. Is it because I’m running Lineage?

No different than the decades of ad supported broadcast television.

That looks good. Ive got some good home pizza practices. You can use a large cast iron skillet on a burner to parcook the dough while dressing it, or a hot pizza stone, then put the whole thing straight into the 500 degree oven.

Puree whole peeled tomatoes for the sauce and spice it up. If you like anchovies, use the anchovy oil from the can in the sauce.

Same - can sync snapshots from Truenas to Backblaze.

If you want to get real fancy you could stash an N40L cube server at your mom’s house where she will never find it and VPN back to your local network and replicate snapshots to it

And still Star Flight did the same thing and was a all time great game, oh and it fit on two 360k floppies.

There is also a complete lack of segregation of duties with these things. The companies that install, configure, and maintain also get a cut of the income. This is really bad.

Soups. Find Cooks Illustrated Best Soups cookbook. Learn to make and can your own broth. It doesn’t change everything but it changes a lot.

Too bad it is all being used for AirBNBs

I mean it is good that he doesn’t want to just indiscriminately wipe out the population of housed cows