Thank you, that’s such a kind offer! I might take you up on that! It’ll probably be a bit 'cuz I need to take some time to look into programs and such that I didn’t think of before to make sure what I’m used to is compatible and then I’ll go from there! :)

A Windows computer I had got massively fucked once like, 15ish years ago. No idea what happened. No new downloads or installs, I hadn’t done anything different from any computer I’ve had before or since, just one day it stopped and it wasn’t even that old, two years tops. Not a custom build, straight outta the box from Best Buy (maybe even Future Shop it was so long ago). My friend couldn’t tell me what happened when they figured out how to get it at least booting up again. Only time it’s happened. It was weeeeeeeiiiiird.

Glad to know about the performance boost. :)

Ok, wait…I thought a partition meant that it was in effect a wall between different OSs if you had multiples on one computer, not like separate folders like in Windows Explorer (which is what I’m getting from this comment, if I’m wrong please let me know).

I don’t trust myself with swapping out hardware, but maybe one day that might be an option for me, lol.

I don’t like how certain things are being forced onto us through almost every goddamn tech thing so yeah…I get that sentiment. Good to know that about Ubuntu.

Why would it be an issue to download a program if it’s not for Windows or Mac? So long as there’s a Linux-based option that works with your version, that is. There is one program I use multiple times a week that I doubt would be on any basic install package and the only place to find it is online. (Not an issue for the computer I’ll be trying it out on as it’s not my main, but if I find a version of Linux I like a put it on my main then it’s something I’d have to consider.)

The sound of virtual machines on my main doesn’t sit well with me. If I do something and brick my main laptop I’m fucked and I can’t replace it and some of the programs I use won’t run at all/run well on my old Windows 8 machine because it doesn’t have the processing power. (I got a gaming laptop so I could have the video processing I needed for video editors to not take a day to render a 15min video on Windows 10, never mind and older Windows 8 laptop. sigh) Experimentation and tech FAFO’ing will happen on the Windows 8! lol

I’ve seen Pop!OS come up in a few comments here, so if I don’t end up liking Mint maybe I’ll try that one out next. :)

My Windows 8 laptop is an old one that I just use to download stuff. My main is a separate device, so all good there!

The specs on the laptop meet the requirements for Mint according to their website so I assume that the hardware is compatible for it. But for stuff like my printer…somebody above mentioned that they were having issues with it working with Linux which isn’t something I thought about.

Funnily enough, I did sit and wonder about the programs I use on my main laptop before right now, just not stuff like printers. My Office Suite is LibreOffice and as far as I’m aware that’s Linux compatible since they’re both in the open source world and the writing/author program I love has Linux options I just don’t know if they’d work with Mint. (One is Debian and other comments were saying that Mint is based off Debian at it’s core, so maybe that would work?)

ANYWAYS, without getting further in the weeds, I’ll have to look into some things further in that regard. Thank you for bringing that up.

And this is probably a dumb follow-up question, but would my ISP be impacted by Linux then? Like, the router might not be compatible or something? The simple aspect of my printer being compatible didn’t come to mind at first, so maybe that could be a thing, I dunno!

So anybody that I’ve ever personally known that I can think of and uses a Linux-based OS is either a programmer by trade, a CompSci grad that didn’t go into the field in the end (but understands it if they were able to graduate obviously), or programs as a hobby. I personally know of no people outside of the realm of those that understand coding on some level that use Linux anything. So hopefully you can see how I would make that link in my mind.

I could have been confusing seeing somebody on Linux using the Command Box thing as more intricate coding, but for somebody in my shoes, with limited tech knowledge, it all looks like coding and is a little intimidating.

And yeah, the plan is to do an out-and-out install, not what I’m assuming a live boot is (I have a comment in a thread above). What I’m thinking feels very beyond me. An install feels like the better option for me. :)

When I have the proverbial spoons to this I will be backing everything up that I want to keep - no worries there!

I think dual-booting and having two OSs on one computer is something that is beyond my wheelhouse, so no worries there either. Just one OS on the computer. That’ll be easier for my brain, lol.

Ok, I’m assuming that a ‘live boot’ is something you plug in anytime you want to use it rather than the installed OS that automatically boots? Yes?

I wonder how many Savita Halappanavar’s (she died from complications post miscarriage in Ireland in 2012) there need to be in the world before people pull their heads out of their asses and let women have true bodily autonomy and give them the care that goes along with that?

Like, whether you take the Hippocratic Oath, the WHO’s Oath, Lasagna’s Oath (yes, it’s a thing - one of the revisions of the Hippocratic Oath in the 20th century done by a man who’s last name was Lasagna), or any of the other versions that are out there, the one unifying factor is that as a medical professional you swear to not harm your patients. This is harming patients. They are breaking their oaths and should have their licenses revoked for intentional malpractice.

Maybe they liked it better that way. shrug

lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of the month.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

TL;DR - Day’s end you can call yourself whatever you want. It would be a problem calling them that when they don’t like being called that. But also don’t tell somebody else to call you that in hopes they’ll get in shit.

You were hoping they’d get in shit for using the word, so your motives in that instance weren’t exactly pure. Maybe reflect on that part. It’s still weaponising the word.

Generally speaking though, to me it’s no different than a woman going up to her group of girl friends and saying '‘Sup bitches!!!’, or Black people using the n-word amongst each other, or Roma people using g–sy amongst themselves. If a gay person wants to call themself a f-----, have at it!

I had a thing with some girl friends where we’d volley ‘slut’, ‘whore’, ‘harlot’, etc. at each other. We’d also try to get as ridiculous as possible with it the names. A random person shouting those names at us would be a bad thing, but the context and rapport we had with each other changed that in those cases. It’s also something I wouldn’t do with people I didn’t really know regardless of gender since we don’t have that background with each other.

I’m part Portuguese and if somebody wants to call me a pork chop I’m like, ‘Damn straight!’ and I’ll sometimes call myself that too. But I won’t call my cousin’s cousin that because he doesn’t like being called that and that’s fine.

EDITED TO FIX FORMATTING… (still getting used to things on this platform, lol)

Classics like Bugs Bunny and Animaniacs were always good. Doug. Pepper Anne.

Ones that most people have forgotten or didn’t know because they weren’t exposed to Canadian shows as a kid:

Science Court was on ABC’s One Saturday Morning and I loved it. Technically a Sunday morning one, but The Smoggies for the Canadian people here that are of a certain age! The Raccoons (another Canadian one)

For the black & white movie days… Barbara Stanwyck. I get that in Double Indemnity she’s supposed to be an evil bitch, but even in movies where she’s supposed to be the one you’re rooting for…she’s terrible. And in one movie I saw with her I didn’t even realise it was her at first and I was still like, ‘This person is terrible.’ and then I realised it was her.

For the modern day - being somebody born in the 80s that grew up in the 90s… Di Caprio. Even when I was a kid I was like, ‘There’s something off with him and I don’t know it is, but there’s something off…’ and everybody else is going on about how amazing he is. Now at least we know that he’s a predatory creep.

Correct me if I’m wrong - I’m not American, so I wouldn’t see this regularly - but I swear I heard about a lotto jackpot or two that hit the billions of dollars (maybe it was close, if wasn’t that much). So it’s possible (rare as all fuck, but possible on occasion) to get to that - or close to it - without building it on the backs of the working class. If that happened to DominusOfMegadeus then that would be awesome! All for it. It’s unfortunately more likely that you’re crushing people’s spines as you climb the mountain of them to reach that amount though. Blargh…

Since you’re already in the Fediverse, I’d suggest looking into PeerTube for your videos rather than going to YouTube as your primary platform.

I currently have a channel, but am going to switch to PeerTube when I have my backlog built up again so I can post in a steady schedule. (Workin’ on it…) The only things I’m going to put on YouTube are videos going, ‘Hey! I have the video up here! Follow the link!’ so that people can actually find it and Words of the Week shorts 'cuz I don’t want to feed their AI bullshit that I can’t get away from with proper stuff and it’s just stick figures and rudimentary drawings with words from the dictionary. Unfortunately, it’s not as user friendly to search for stuff on PeerTube as it is on YouTube. I’m hoping that gets fixed sooner rather than later. It’ll make things better. sigh