lattrommi

True, it can be tricky for certain things. I suggested it because it fits the OP’s a) and b) points better than anything else I could think of. The different versions of it can vary a lot too. Bionicpup worked great on my old eeepc, a netbook with a single core 32 bit cpu, but didn’t do well on anything newer. Focal Fossa has worked without issue on everything I tried it on. I wouldn’t use either as my main OS, but it can be fun on a secondary system. I kept mine in the bathroom until the humidity from showering likely wrecked it.

Set up a flash drive with puppy linux. It’s relatively easy to do (depending on how much you already know about Linux) and is mostly risk-free (but you can still do damage so always use caution) because it runs entirely in RAM and shouldn’t mess with the internal storage drive unless you tell it to. You can use it to copy any desired files without booting Windows and it will probably run on that machine better than Windows ever did. I think that has a 64 bit CPU but there are 32 bit versions floating around the internet if it doesn’t. I’ve seen Puppy Linux versions advertised as being 'so easy your grandma can do it. One project of mine that was fun was creating a Puppy Arcade, a usb flash drive filled with emulators and ROMS but I had issues with some emulators.

My city subreddit doesn’t have a lemmy and since i don’t have any other social media, it’s the only place i can learn about local happenings that aren’t catered towards the elderly or children.

Can’t even find information on the FTC site that shows it was blocked.

All I found were actions that appear to me to be the FTC equivalent of pardons for exxon and shell executives who had been banned from being ceo’s, i’m sure because they were horrible people, yet now are allowed to be ceo’s again. i didn’t read too closely though, i might be wrong and hope i am but i wont kid myself, it’s probably worse than i imagine.

There was a rulethat was close to being enacted by the FTC that had to do with that, the “click-to-cancel” rule. It was supposed to go into effect 2 weeks ago.

It would have required companies to “make it as easy to cancel, as it was to sign up” for tons of things in the US.

It said that companies had to provide an easy way to cancel, that took equally long as signing up or less, AND via the same medium. So companies couldn’t make you call to cancel if you signed up online.

Unfortunately, it was stopped by the 8th circuit court, who deemed it “outside the FTC’s authority” which is absolute bullshit, that’s why they exist.

I really hope it manages to get pushed through somehow, because so many companies are just the absolute worst scumbags and constantly getting away with it.

edit: it’s not quite the same as deleting an account, i realize that. it still would have enabled a lot of these ‘services’ to get shut down easily.

Excellant write up, thank you.

I’m not exactly sure what ‘opinionated’ means in terms of software, could you (or anyone who sees this) define it?

This setup isn’t what I use, i had wanted to try as many monitors that i had ports for and this was one result that worked.

2 Sharp 18" tv’s at 60Hz, different models and one can’t do higher than 1280x720p so it was scaled 125%

LG ultrawide 34" 100hz

Asus 27" 75Hz

Samsung 42" tv scaled to 75% but I couldn’t get its refresh rate to change. it’s supposed to do 120Hz but i only get 60 Hz

since switching to wayland, i rarely have monitor problems and i love it, especially after switching to an AMD GPU. i had constant issues from my previous nvidia card.

side note, i’m super poor and all of these except the LG were given to me by friends who no longer had use for them. many of these friends do website design and ask me how their sites look occasionally. they can emulate different screens i think but they’re probably trying to show off or they know i have a huge variety of screens i can test things with. I have at least 6 other monitors from 4 different brands in 3 sizes and 3 different native resolutions with 2 that do rates other than 60Hz. two are CRT’s. now i’m probably trying to show off.