I have one Brilliant Schemer and one Beautiful Idiot, and I wouldn’t trade either of them ♥️

*turmeric

One thing to keep in mind about the terminal:

In Linux, many GUI tools are simply pretty interfaces for the terminal. That’s why folks tell you that you’ll need the terminal occasionally, no matter what: you might need to type in commands that don’t already have a friendly GUI.

The terminal isn’t that scary, though! Every big distro has a support community. And if you need to do something in the terminal? Someone else has definitely needed to do the same thing, so you won’t need to figure it out on your own.

I mostly use Bazzite in front of a big TV. When I first set up the computer, I needed to use the terminal to configure a couple of things related to network shares. Later, I used it to help specific devices wake up the computer from sleep. It’s been months since then, and I’m not sure I’ve needed the terminal for anything else.

Use it as an opportunity to learn how your computer works. It’s really satisfying to understand how things happen.

Final Fantasy

Eats where the locals eat, doesn’t ride the tuk-tuk

Oh, everything.

Got a $20m yacht? Sell it. Oh, youcre forced to sell it for $50k because nobody will give you more? That’s just the free market, clearly it’s only worth $50k.

Paid $75m to build your house? Well someone is offering you $175k and you’d better take it.

And you own a company worth $100m? No you don’t, it was already taken from you and turned into a worker-owned co-op.

After all the sales and seizures, you’ve got $23.1m in cash, and just 1m more in the bank? OK, dude, we cool.

I’d give all the billionaires the same choice:

(a) Give away everything except, say, 25 million.

(b) Guillotine.

Check thrift shops.

I’ve seen plenty of Chromebooks and older Windows laptops for $10-25.

MX is my preferred distro to put on them, though there are plenty of good, small distros.

Does it have to be on the Play Store?

I recently started using the Fossify Music Player. It’s on F-Droid.

Fark

As opposed to the kind made of actual hands?

There’s always Creality.

I don’t know that they’re good. But so far I haven’t seen anything about them being evil? I’m open to being wrong, though.

And now you see why they want to crash the economy.

TIL that my FDM printer should now be called FFF - because Stratasys owns the trademark of the term “FDM,” and has been known to abuse folks who try to use that term.

Coincidentally, Stratasys is also Israeli.

Let people have fun.

Ethics.

I’ll add that I’ve successfully used my original NES and SNES on this TV, and they work perfectly!

I’d keep them both hooked up to it full-time, but my limiting factor is space around the TV, and not inputs.

I love my 46" Panasonic Viera. It’s my only TV.

https://www.crutchfield.com/S-HuEUaS67Frk/p_13346PZ80/Panasonic-TH-46PZ80U.html

Apparently some of these had power supply issues, but mine still works flawlessly. I got it second hand from someone who almost never used it. Everything works.

The only flaw: Panasonic built it to reject 1080p over component input. My PS3 supports 1080p over component, and the console believes it’s transmitting signal, but the TV rejects it and only shows a blank screen.

Panasonic cowtowed to the film industry, who didn’t want 1080p to be available without HDMI’s copy protection. So the TV blanks it out.

Probably not a huge problem for you, but worth keeping in mind depending on what you plan to hook up.

OK, the text was wrapping weird on my screen and it didn’t look like that was part of the same path.

Have you tried giving it a simpler path?