Linux.

Because Windows or iOS is already loaded when they buy the machine.

People who treat others who cannot benefit them well. For example, wait staff.

Firefox allowed you to define the default search and have many many engines listed. That's been a standard feature for many years.

This. Still feel and act as I did at thirty. This is going to get sad eventually.

So far nothing like my 'parents' thankfully.

There's a reason that I'm not a Twitter, X or Mastodon user. I'm not that kind of person. I think they should hand out free methadone if you can prove you're an X user.

Lemmy (and Reddit) is separated into distinct communities too. You can avoid certain areas easily.

He wasn't speaking loudly at all.

A faux front end that makes the fediverse appear centralised.

That CEO has definitely shorted Reddit somehow.

Give them all the same ridiculous non-negotiable cash selling price.

Does noone use glances anymore?

Can I remind you that the US has already had a hand in replacing the leadership once and how that turned out.

My web browser then Android apps.

Cancer is a fairly safe bet; I'm in the western world.

Hello fellow hairless dude also turning into a monkey. Hair in nostrils, ears (wtaf), eyelids occasionally.

I think the stats say, about 52% of the population is female, 48% is male.

So 2% of females are male. Oh .. wait ..!

Would the last person out of Reddit please turn off the lights.

Rishi Sunak and Keir Starma, to name but two.

Probably Ruby. For some reason .. no, that's a lie .. playing with Exherbo, Gentoo and Funtoo, but mostly Exherbo, made me loathe Python. However, everyone in the data processing arena seems to use it, so I'm bound to have to change my ways eventually! For "Ruby": read "Python".

My days of needing high-speed low level languages are long gone. I learned C on Borland C++ back in 1990 to price derivatives on 386s. Loved it.

If I mess around with any language it's for fun. I intend to commit suicide, when my time is done, by the percussive head trauma that learning Haskell will cause me.

Top Hat. It isn't a sex aid, millennials. I know you haven't seen them before.

Isn't that an unwritten given by now? If not why not?

Don't put parental controls on it. What do you want to control? Maybe put controls on the website that they can visit, but that goes on the DNS or router. Most kids will go to a mate's house that doesn't have any or as harsh parental controls anyway if they are particularly keen on seeing something that they 'shouldn't'. Parental controls are a fix for parents who can't talk to their kids; they make the parents feel safer but just send the issues underground. Gen X will have been writing code for a while at your child's age. I was. There was no choice if you needed to unlock a game you could've afford. At that time GUIs were a bad overlay over MS-DOS or DR-DOS. You had to know what you were doing to get the best out of it. Your kid will be fine with any distribution of Linux. If your kid is technically inquisitive likely to be good at maths/science, get them installing Arch. If not and they just want to use a browser, install one of the top five popular distributions from distrowatch.com. The Office suite for Linux is called LibreOffice. If you use Chrome as your browser you'll easily tell if your child has been on bad sites because your timeline will be filled with adverts for unsavoury impotence remedies. Enjoy.

PS printers are still bastards in Linux. Happily they're less bastardish in Linux (and Mac, because Linux and iOS use the same printing software) than Windows. If you like your life buy a decent Laser from anyone but HP - my generation bought the last decent HP printers they made.

Each time period (week, year etc) is a smaller proportion of your life.

Anything that happened when I was much younger can't be resolved easily to the nearest year, unless I can identify a specific immutable event like a specific birthday.

That they haven't convinced the rest of the useful Reddit users to move across (and create/populate the equivalent /c/ I (used to) frequent for help and advice)! 😜

Everyone does it. Every year of so we gather everyone we know together to commemorate.

If it runs Windows it'll run Linux almost certainly. The cheaper you go, the more likely you'll have lower priced or older components for WiFi, Bluetooth etc which may mean that you have to dig some firmware binaries out to get the whole thing running.

If you can take a USB stick with you of a typical Rescue distribution, and can boot it up, you'll know what will and won't work easily. The bits that don't work may need some minor fiddling. As I said, there are usually walkthrough blogs etc around.

Have fun.

Use your surname with a personal domain. Then you can link up other family members to it. Eg. dave@cammeron.me . Otherwise you've got to have an email address dave@davecammeron.me which looks stupid.

Use your organisation as your work email. boris@megacorp.com, boris.bloke@megacorp.com bb@megacoro.com ceo@megacorp.com

You then separate the work and personal emails. Sending personal emails through a corporate server using the corporate domain is fair game to use in a court, you're ostensibly representing the company and it's not a personal email.

There are various hilarious stories about people losing rights to their name etc post internet era when their company was purchased.

Don't try to run a mail server yourself, that became counter productive about the 2010s. I used to run servers easily last century when there was almost no-one sending email, then the sp-/sc-ammers 'entered the room'.

Accidentally clicking on a wrong email on a unsecure environment can ruin your day if you're tired and just keep clicking mindlessly.

Good luck. Especially if you have a popular surname that your family doesn't own.

Zoho mail has a domain hosting platform for email. About £60 pa in dollars for my setup. Pricing varies on the number of accounts not the number if domains. I have two accounts, personal and business, and a control admin account. The domains I host vary according to the businesses I run. I funnel each domains email to one of the two accounts and reply with the appropriate domain easily. Personal email is masked with Addy.io mostly.

They deal with the email very well. There was a time that they really didn't and the system went up and down like a tarts knickers.

The front end is ok. They play with it a lot and there are many screens pushing some shit or other before you actually are allowed to get to the inbox. The inbox setup is excellent with all the expected functionality and toys and many toys appearing monthly.

Typical of Indian continent companies, as a Brit who has spent much of his life frustrated on the phone to "Dave" from Mumbai with a really really thick accent, Zoho don't really seem to understand concepts properly, so their passkeys setup doesn't work with Bitwarden. TOTP 2FA cannot be just pasted in (from Bitwarden again) because they've tried to be flash with the input field and one has to click on a specific place first. The support team try really hard, but their ability to grasp the problem and fix it is lacking before some other buzzword catches marketing's attention and they add yet another screen to click through or subvert the problem somewhere else. Their help knowledge base is enormous, well documented but unorganized and they don't archive stuff that has been superceded, so be careful.

That said I've been using them for well over a decade and have no plans to change.

Running your own mail server ceased to be a hobby thing when RBLs came in. Use a provider with the resources to do the hard/cumbersome stuff.

I'd give Zoho mail an easy 7/10. And it's cheap. Zoho invoice is great too.

I'm in my sixth decade. It's not bad. Finally not giving any fucks at all. It's a sliding scale.

Being Gen X is pretty good.

Enjoy.

That when we see a fish on the back of their car, we know we're going to be following a really considerate driver.

Mostly in times of economic growth and very positive sentiment. It's the antidote to the catch-22 that you can't get a particular job without the experience but can't get the experience without the job.

Simply put 'fake it until' applies when you can put experience you don't (quite) have on a CV; get the job and acquire the experience before it is ever tested in any meaningful way. That only really happens in a period of rapid economic expansion (whether that be in your (their) business, sector, or country wide). In such cases no-one really knows what they're doing.

I don't have much experience of celeb or influencer culture FITYMI - finding someones parked Lamborghini or private plane and dancing in front of it for a TikTok pretending that is yours.

Until I find most of the equivalent Reddit subs on Lemmy, with their emigrated leading lights, you kind of have to. Like you said, only Reddit has the answers. Startpage: "42? site:reddit.com"

I'm too old to enjoy drama.

Politics (provided you reach high office).

Who said that (you have to use their custom mainline kernel)?

Fedora have an IoT distribution that fits the Raspberry Pi for example. There's workstation and a ostree versions.

Armbian I've used in preference to Raspbian or whatever they call it today. I like the cleanest distributions as much as possible.

That's all I have personal experience with, but there are others.

Meanwhile, others have suggested other boards. However, don't think that Raspbian is it (pun intended).

Until most of the subs become communities I'm forced to flit between the two.

Some Reddit subs' posts (but not the comments) are copied to Lemmy eg. Ubiquiti but you still have to logon to Reddit to interact.

That's why I only ever bought one Samsung phone (a galaxy 6 I think) . They do have a tendency to install shit on phones that you will never use but can't delete.

There were a few ways of deleting those apps from Samsung on the web but I focus on buying clean phones with no shite loading (like OnePlus and Pixel). Although my first Pixel send to be bullying me to put my everything on their cloud servers - where all your datas are belong to them 🤣😂 via EULA.

I love my Pixel with Niagara launcher for the love translation. Wtf Google with that locked-down home screen. I'll live with the removed call record even though it's legal in the free world.

That you eventually delete the Windows partition.

I think it was ITV. (UK)

The end of 2023.

.. And that's why average men and women got the vote in (UK) Representation of People Act 1918.