Yeah live service anything was going to land like a dead fish in my area where whether or not you can get a ping through to fucking Google depends on how many people in the neighborhood are off work.

“This massive corporation sucks too!” Have you tried not going with a massive corporation?

I mean, my distro’s technically an Ubuntu variant, but I honestly don’t think that’s ever come up in any meaningful way.

Well I’m installing this and you’re my new favorite person.

And is in fact dry (as in lack of sweetness) so you might want to add some simple syrup to a cocktail you’re making if it calls for a different type.

Welcome to the club! Mint is an excellent choice, especially from a beginner’s perspective. Don’t let that stop you from trying other things though if you get the temptation. Fedora and Arch are the two other ‘families’ I can think of to play with, though I’ve stuck with things in the Debian side of things myself.

“My shitty attempt at being a venture capitalist didn’t pan out and I’m angry at the guy who took advantage of my desire for a get rich quick scheme”

I first got this error trying to play under the hood of a MacBook in high school and got scared it was reporting to the school. It of course didn’t.

First was Puppy on an old Dell back in middle school. Just wanted something other than the shit ass windows box my mom insisted on and the macs my school insisted on.

I put Mint on a PC for my dad because it’s first thing easy for him to use and second a 32-bit machine and Mint the best choice I found that runs on that.

Well the headline got a chuckle out of me anyway. Still happy with Neon and it’s lack of AI bullshit.

and you burn through nuclear fuel like nobody’s business.

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I remember having a torrent client set up was a great way to become popular back in 2010

I’d genuinely believe that.

Thinking about it Cronkite and Wozniak make a lot of sense.

The living room PC is an old Dell that came with windows 7 and was left behind in an apartment when everybody moved out. It also runs Mint.

Millions? One is reminded of the pyramid scheme “problem” where it basically ends up as everybody can’t actually be a salesman if the business is actually going to be viable. Right? Like who are you selling to if everyone else is in on it too?

Why does it have speakers? I mean maybe if it’s really quiet otherwise it might be helpful for it to beep occasionally because tripping hazards and whatnot, but why does it need to be able to speak?

Could just be a specific combo of hardware/software issues too.