My wife’s 90 year old grandma was able to pick up Mint with absolutely no issue. Just put the shit she needed on the desktop and that was that.

Unless you’re redlining your systems 24/7, the load really shouldn’t be that bad.

My first gen i7 would still be going strong if the mobo hadn’t started dying. Especially running Linux.

I always forget that it has ads until I leave my home network

Legally, the platform isn’t liable for what the users do on it. But I wouldn’t want to test that in court.

Yeah, I’d dban the drives and everything.

AI is a great tool, but that’s all it is. It’s absolutely not a complete solution.

If you do COBOL it’s a get out of jail free card

Yeah, people are fantastically stupid

Was it really ever a safe place for free speech?

This is the first I’m hearing about it