Option 1: When you go to their website for the flathub link, it takes you to a download for a .flatpakref file. Dowload that and run it. It will open the Software Manager to the gopher64 entry. If it isn’t opening with the software manager for some reason, tell it to open .flatpakref files with the Software Manager.

Option 2: Search for gopher64 in the Software Manager.

Protip for the room: Use a password manager with a unique password for every service. Then when one leaks, it only affects that singular service, not large swaths of your digital life.

Wireless charging wastes a ton of power. Roads also get beat to hell.

I really don’t see this being practical.

Signal? No.

I’m running Signal right now on Linux Mint.

Remember when the sales pitch of The Cloud was it would always be online?

only ad I see is the occasional sentence on my lock screen, “You should try $whatever!”

Why put up with any ads? No other desktop OS does this…

So what emergency are you thinking of?

You aren’t on a road and the car is confused about how to move around. You are now stranded because you can’t drive the car. I have yet to see any self-driving car even attempt to be reasonable in off-road driving.

Your buddy’s cabin in the woods, grass parking at a venue, natural disaster and the road is gone, a country driveway, getting into your backyard with the shit your bought at home depot, etc, etc.

The moment self driving cars are safe enough we are going to ban human drivers entirely

Naw. Too many people like driving, too many emergency situations that require a human. The most that will reasonably happen is people will prefer self-driving and driving test requirements will increase somewhat.

We very rarely ban old things, we mostly just convince people to use new things.

“that breaks speed limits” can be ok.

I have seen a number of US interstates posted at 55mph, when traffic moves at 70-80mph. Being stuck at 55mph on those interstates is dangerous.

The power train (and other vital components) of a car should be air-gapped from the internet. It’s crazy car manufacturers are even able to brick a car like this.

Is your car going to get security updates 20 years from now? No. The power train should be air-gapped from the internet.

Not all of us know what this is. Can you expand on your thoughts?

Nice.

Very much so looking forward to seeing rigorous benchmarks of GPUs on linux.

And all the weird slowdowns it was exhibiting? Totally absent in Linux. I expected performance to be a wash, but it’s noticeably improved.

Things loading notably faster on Linux was not my expectation either, but it certainly is the case. My theory is the Windows AV randomly attacks things, and when it does, shit just sloooowwws down.

It’s not about individuals, it’s about businesses. Many companies will not bother to sell any of these. The HDDs and SSDs will go into a chipper (for security reasons) and the rest will go into the dumpster. Dealing with old machines like this isn’t worth the salary to pay an employee to sell them, nor is it worth the headache to make sure that employee is selling them in a compliant way.

With a traditional wind turbine, if the wind speeds get too high, the turbine locks the rotation and feathers the blades. For the airship however, people will have to manually take it down and later erect it again. Hopefully they get to it in time, otherwise it’s going to violently take itself down and/or fly off. Either way, that is a bunch of extra cost incurred on a regular basis.

Strikes me as an impractical solution.

All hail Windows 11 for making the future brighter on that front too; with Microsoft pushing forced obsolescence!

Yeah, tons of businesses are and will be offloading intel 7th gen and older computers.

Your old laptop & a generic bluetooth keyboard/mouse combo unit.

That is my setup. :)

Cinnamon uses slightly more resources than the other two. But, it’s lightweight enough I doubt you are going to have an issue, even with a computer of that era.

Head on over to Update Manager > Edit and upgrade to 22.2!

If you are currently running Mint 22.1, the upgrade will show up in the Update Manager > Edit menu.

Edit: I updated my machines this way. I’m guessing it isn’t set to automatically move one from kernel 6.8 to 6.14? I can obviously change the kernel via the Kernels menu in Update Manager, I’m just wondering why this wasn’t automatic.