I missed out on that one

Reading those numbers it’s like I can hear the Duke Dukem intro.

Better avoid the whole of Europe to be safe.

The Dutch!

Ah yes now I remember, they were very annoying.

As I remember Vista had some areas that were hard or unintuitive to configure, Win7 cleaned up those parts.

Win7 also made the disk hungry background processes play nice, Vista would occasionally lock up with 100% CPU and disk usage while the os scanned something.

And I agree Win7 is just a reskinned Vista.

BBS’es and Fidonet through modem were there before the web.

Don’t think many found each other on BBS’s but at least they could download low res porn.

Is that a PC in your pocket or are you happy to see me.

Only if they replace their C-suite with ChatGPT

I have used Jan Kruegers guide along with Sqouzen and Open Cola to find the correct ratios needed. Jan’s recipe was chosen because its sugar free and skips the step with making sugar syrup, and you end up with 257ml syrup that gives 45l cola.

I’m on the fourth 1/4 scale batch, and weigh everything because its more precise than measuring volume, and that have helped me dial in the correct amounts.

I found that it’s fun it is to tinker with all the ratios in a spreadsheet, while dialing in the recipe to my taste.

Problem with big data is that it takes a lot of time and effort to sift through it to get any value out of it.

Companies dream that they can enable predictive maintenance by using the big data from your collected data, but in reality its easier said than done, so they end up failing because of the price.

And I doubt the current level of AI can provide better results than a bunch of search parameters, I would be worried if the result is hallucinated, and still need some search parameters to verify the result.

I’m not sure I would use a open source Linux version of Recall, I think it would be like always sharing/streaming your desktop, so I think .bash_history is enough recall for me.

I would also allow an open source version of Co-Pilot because the AI snooping only happens within a single program.

I don’t have a problem with Java, and you can get Oracle free versions of Java.

JavaScript on the other hand is a blight as you say.

JavaScript’s real name is ECMAScript.

https://tc39.es/

In 50 years I hope we can set up a LAN and play some CS, TF and Quake in the nursing home.

I think it’s a matter of scale, back in 2014 they were scumbags with a thin veneer of “decency” that veneer got sandblasted off and now there’s only a bag of hate left.

And yet without that “critical feature” people have still used Gimp for much more advanced editing.

Gimp has been fine for many tasks for the last 20+ years, yes it’s not Photoshop and may never be a 1:1 replacement.

But I’m sure that has never been the goal.

No problem, it just sounded like you needed help.

To avoid getting advice then you better mark your comment, with rant or something.

At least you tried! And annoying that you stumbled upon hw issues.

If you ever want to try again what about getting hold of an old drive, or try dual boot, then you can swap back to windows easily and there’s less pressure for Linux to work out of the box.

As you say the guides you used didn’t match, try and research more about what is the correct distro for you, and maybe start with one that looks like a sure bet.