Yeah, I installed Heliboard soon after I posted my comment and I like it well enough. I think I might stick with it.

Nice. I read elsewhere that it has a “dryrun” option that will calculate the total storage requirements for the library. That way I can buy a dedicated drive for it.

What is the best offline, privacy first, FOSS, Android keyboard alternative to FUTO?

Nutanix…oof. I deal with them every day. It isn’t their fault their shit can’t handle what we do, but it is their sales folk that constantly lie and misrepresent.

Wanna know one of rhe big reasons people hate Oracle so much? It’s their sales guys. They are awful. If that guy went from Oracle to Nutanix, that tells me that I cannot trust a single syllable out of their mouth.

Hatred of Oracle predates “cancelling” by decades. Oracle is and has always been one of, if not the most disgusting and vicious companies in tech. They kill everything they touch.

If you need a political component, then Oracle = Larry Ellison, but Oracle hate predates and supercedes the American political slide into fascism.

MySQL belongs to Oracle. That’s literally all you need to.know in order to avoid it.

By redeeming Epic giveaways and never buying anything you are sending profits to the developer while simultaneously costing Epic money. Win/Win.

Henry Cavill is furiously masturbating right now.

I own a few copies of Total War I got through giveaways. Can anyone recommend some good tutorials for someone who has never even booted up a TW game?

I transitioned to GeForce Now for extremely graphically demanding games. Games like Total War do very well on the cloud.

Nice Pet Shop Boys cover.

I always recommend FUTO for its privacy BUT although they do share/open their sourcecode to scrutiny, it is not licensed as free and open source software (FOSS).

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For large volumes of data, nothing beats shipping a large external drive (with a fast interface) from location to location.

Probably a toss up between The Next Generation (TNG) and Deep Space 9 (DS9). Do note that Star Trek series normally need about a season to find their footing. Season 1 of TNG was mid-tier but it still is a source of plenty of memes.

I think TNG is likely the better starting point. The original series (TOS) is painfully old fashioned, which could ve a good thing or bad depending on your tastes.

• Keeping Up Appearances
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot (with David Suchet)
• A&E’s Nero Wolfe
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Stargate SG-1

What is the most relieving thing you’ve done for yourself?

That doesn’t involve either masturbating or going to the bathroom.

The E.T. game being “the worst game” thing is all myth. It was a tremendous flop, but it had nothing to do with game quality. I’d say that 90% of Atari 2600 games were objectively bad and E.T. was amongst the 10% of good ones. They over estimated demand, overhyped it, and sold it during the holidays, which means extended and relaxed return policies. That resulted in too many units manufactured and too many units returned. Thus the landfill full of cartridges.

Source: I was one of the kids that got it for Christmas. It was fine, but wenty minutes later, I was back to Yar’s Revenge.

Probably Portal 2, but I plan to try Dispatch as soon as it has completed.

100%, but OP said he was a complete noob. Given that they only have 4GB of RAM on an older computer, I suggested Lubuntu. But yes, no DE is best if they can manage it.

Another choice is Lubuntu, a lightweight and fast variant of Ubuntu, so the Ubuntu instructions you find online should still work.