Lovable Sidekick

Let’s go for a walk in the park - they just cleaned the algae tanks!

Pretty good intro for absolute beginners here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg19Z8LL06w

Also are the Rolling Stones involved? Asking for a friend.

Maybe it’s the same normal human inconsistency as those of who support public health care and basic income, but ironically still buy stuff from capitalists.

Throwing away money isn’t evil when WE do it!

I think any app for text input should have word prediction. It’s mostly for phone users but I’ve found it so handy since getting a phone where it’s well implemented (Pixel 8) I’ve quickly come to think of it as an essential component that should be available to any app.

Thanks, I’ll lookup pfSense. But straightforward host mapping has worked for me in the past with this router and others. It worked great on my old Cisco DSL router 25 years ago. So simple and straightforward, it should just freaking work. sigh

When somebody says they “just” reverse the polarity of the navigational deflector array and channel power directly from the warp core.

I can’t even get host mapping to work on my Centurylink router - the name is defined for the IP address but nothing else on my network can browse to it by name, only by IP. - software dev who has never understood networking.

The term “dependency hell” reminds me of “DLL hell” Windows devs used to refer to. Something must have changed around 2000 because I remember an article announcing, “No more DLL hell.” but I don’t remember what the change was.

Small thing about filesystem dialogs. In file open/save dialogs some apps group directories at the top and others mix them in alphabetically with files. My preference is for them to be grouped, but being consistent either way would be nice.

I’m happy with Linux Mint so far (2 mos in)

Gmail is web-based, you can use it with Firefox. For that matter Linux doesn’t bind you to Firefox either, you can use Chrome and other browsers. I never used office 360 or Libre, I just use google docs.