u/CaperGrrl79

In this case, I’m glad. We need to know about it to try to stamp it out. Before they stamp us out.

I did notice some oranges were sort of green. I always wait to buy the 3lb bags till they’re on sale for $3.99 or so if possible.

Wholesale Club near me somehow has those no name bars at $1.69 still. Only two types, one being dark chocolate and almond. Probably will go up soon… and Wholesale Clubs aren’t everywhere. Dollarama sometimes has the same size bars for $1.25, I think? Not near the register, though, in the other candy aisle. And not dark chocolate, I don’t think, unless it goes quickly.

How bout dat.

Heh. My first date with my husband ended up at a pizzeria chain. He pulled out a gift card (he won at karaoke). Believe it or not, despite Weird Al asserting that pulling out a coupon book when on a date is tacky, I actually admired it. We’ve been together 14 years, and this year is our tenth wedding anniversary. 😊 Turns out we had a whole lot more in common.

Does Timeshift work on Ubuntu? It works on Mint, which is based on Ubuntu.

But if this crap keeps up, I might go with LMDE7.

Been using Linux Mint since the summer. I went to create a letter on my newer Acer laptop on Windows 11 because the HP Beats wouldn’t go to Windows 11. Office 365 paywalled me. So I looked up Open and LibreOffice (going to try OnlyOffice soon) and got them both, completed the letter.

Then I thought… Windows is getting so crappy with this insult plus AI & ads… I wonder what Linux looks like these days? I had used it in the early 2000s, mostly Mandrake and Suse, as I recall, on KDE.

I was lucky I happened upon Distrosea, so I played with some there. I almost installed ZorinOS, but decided that dual booting Mint on the Beats laptop was better, because the Software Center has ratings and reviews.

There were a few hiccups with the flash drive, Secure Boot and all that. Ended up having to format the iso in Rufus before putting it on the flash drive with Ventoy, but it worked.

Granted, I don’t use my personal laptops that often, the last thing I want to do after being on my work laptop (which is Windows 11, but my coworker runs CachyOS and brings up work stuff in ThinkCast) is get on another laptop, especially where I work evenings.

Since then, I’ve wanted to put it (or smaller distros) on other older machines in the house for fun, but several of them have some issues… old Dell Dimension 2200 psu capacitors popped, so that was a no go… and the Dell Vostro tower we have is beeping at me, gotta have someone look at that… might be graphics card or mobo needs reseat.

This is something I would love to do for people on a professional basis… I’m laying the groundwork for it right now (side hustle and fallback cushion for if the American 3rd party contract ends, esp. before 2029).

FOSS transitions and tech help, senior target demo, but basically anyone, even solo/small businesses… saving money, and sanity!

I think gimp and Photopea might be worth looking into, though I don’t have experience with those myself.

Only one way to find out… try it and let us know how it goes.

Precisely. People were calling it months ago, it was in Project 2025.

Yeah, if you have a Pixel, GrapheneOS looks to be the least complicated, but it’s still daunting. I haven’t tried it yet.

Ugh. So much for Elbows Up.

I almost went with Zorin, but the ratings and reviews in Linux Mint ultimately won me over, as well as ease of use.

That said, I almost checked out Winux, but evidently, it is not actually FOSS.

Might be able to use Mint Debian Edition.

Yes indeed, this happened to my coworker yesterday and it took them an hour to get everything fixed. This is not OK.

OMG they are in my hometown.

Americanisation?

Regarding Ubuntu, its cousin Mint is even more regular user friendly, as is ZorinOS.

One of my favourite things about Mint is that it has a Software Center with ratings and reviews. It’s what tipped me over from installing Zorin OS.