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.

Scientists are freaking out about ocean!

The thought of home internet with a limit gives me cold sweats

No, but it’s only been a couple of months.

Plus I’m single right now, if you catch my drift.

I smoked for about 10 years and replaced that with vaping. Then I replaced vaping with chewing gum in January.

I chew 2 pieces of Extra 6-7 times a day and Blockheads multivitamin gum twice a day.

I also carry strips of foil I can spit into if I’m at my desk or not near a bin.

Same here. I have no idea what the issue is.

The pharmacist at my local Tesco once told me I was buying paramol too often. It had been at least a year since I last bought it.

This told me that:

A. They’re using facial recognition to track purchases

B. There’s either not enough info provided by it or enough training on it’s use

Do you folks in Burgerland still have those two prongs that screw into the back of your TV? We’ve always used round coax here in the UK.

Just like me. I’m a fat bald guy with a huge beard which I always thought I was the Linux stereotype. But yea, I enjoy seeing cute socks with Neofetches in my feed.

Based on what data?

We had an ad that actually said “piracy funds terrorism” here in the UK. Made me laugh my arse off.

Man I’m glad I was born and raised in a working class town now. Prospects looked pretty dire here when I was a kid. Local industry fell flat in the 1990s and into the 2000s so tonnes of my fellow millennials left to go to uni and get jobs in cities. That kept the cost of living here low and I was able to buy my first house at 22.

Now those deserters are saddled with student debt and unaffordable rents with no prospect of ever buying their own home. Recently the local industry started taking off again in a big way. I’m already making a pretty good wage but I’m also in track to have a Masters Degree and a high paid job after 3 years with a house that should have its value skyrocket over the next decade.

Stanley is a UK brand that originally just made flasks. They started making cups in the same style as their flasks and for some reason they recently blew up online.

OK, looking at this I can now understand why it may not all make immediate sense to someone who didn’t grow up here.

So no one told ya Phoebe isn’t spelt that way…

Carrie’s mouth is open really far

Certainly gets me going.

I’m British so I’d be pretty sure they were fireworks where I live.

But I’d still be a bit on edge. There’s a good chance it’s either being set off by a bunch of dumb kids throwing them at each other in the street who’d stab me if I confronted them or by some complete moron who has no idea what they’re doing and it could go fucking anywhere.

I mean if they checked the galactic phone book pretty sure they would have realised Ben Kenobi might be related to ObiWan in 5 seconds like Luke did.

Then I will proudly call myself a not particularly smooth criminal.