Awkward

The sand people stopped participating when a new guy “Racer V” went off the tracks killing them all. It took weeks to clean up.

Its a shame Racer V disappeared before Racer X appeared, their races would have been legendary.

If you can see the light has gone out, it just means the light bulb needs to be replaced.

I still use Simple note.

While I’d prefer one that isn’t owned by the same people as WordPress and not sync to their cloud, it is open source and free. I figure it beats Google or MS notes, and don’t have to manage syncing all the files. No AI nonsense either (at least for now)

Easy for shopping lists and jotting stuff down, there’s an app for all the major OSs. I definitely don’t trust it for anything important or sensitive.

…yes, I definitely read your entire post and repeated exactly what you said for fun.

Why have an extension for this?

On Firefox (desktop and mobile) you can easily add it as your default search engine. It can be done in Vivaldi too (not sure if its a chrome default or Vivaldi addition).

They could just have a 1 paragraph guide telling you how to do it.

Hah, I think we’ll be sadled with 100% of the debt and consequences.

I hope you saved what you could from that exchange, as well the attempts to contact them. If they ever notice, their AI mistake will become your problem to deal with, (and the kind of news story to end up on a Steve Lehto video).

If that happened to me, I’d have a chat with my bank, “please help me return this money to where it came from, it was payed in error. They have no way to contact a human and I don’t want them to accuse me of fraud down the line”.

Must be a bug on Debian side. That’s all common hardware, so you can just rely on someone else to report it and you’ll be back up in a day or 2.

Has anyone recommended Breezy yet? It’s great!

That’s good… (The not killing part) On a completely unrelated note, I like your hat.

You’re supposed to drink the wine? I dunked the computer in wine.

Nah, I bet they’re a Numbers on iPhone mini person.

Wow only $5000 to own that domain! What a bargen.

No idea, I refreshed the page and it went away.

Hypothetical bullshit on what could happen;

July 1st, after a whole bunch of panic buys, "we’ve listened to community feedback and re-evaluated our pricing to be more in line with our community values. We are happy to announce a lifetime $300 Plex Subscriptions, it comes with an industry leading 2 year of Plex Pass at no cost.

Hey don’t lump me in with those whiny clowns! I’m a whiny clown in a clown suit. Damn foreigners making extremely generalized assumptions about us /s

Unfortunately, that’s probably not gonna happen without some new hardware.

You could setup a wire guard at the router (can you setup tail scale on a router? idk). If she’s renting the ISP router, replacing that could save a 100+ a year, depending on how much the isp is scamming her for it.

or you could repurpose a minipc/nuc from bay and set up a jellyfin streaming box with tailscale.

If you have the extra hardware, you could also setup a local server with her jellyfin and use wiregaurd/tailscale to remotely connect to it and run backup/sync during off-hours.

The scariest part about this is realizing there was less time between 1985 to 2005 then there is from 2005 to now (2026).

Arch is a challenge, be prepared to spend more time learning and tinkering than using your computer for the first few months (and forever). It’s not impossible, but you will most likely have to reinstall a few times as you learn. If thats what you enjoy, great. Go for a distro made for the lay person like Mint or Bazzite. There’s a backup program called Timeshift, it will replace windows snapshots and can help you recover from mistakes without having to start over.

If you put your home drive on a separate partition/drive it will be easier to distro hop as you try different ones. Still, make sure your data is backed up, ideally put the backup on an external drive that you can unplug while installing new a OS.