I’ve always made the argument that if you stub your toe and say the f word, what will you say when you cut your toe off? Shit!

What is facewashing?

I’m not sure how to feel about this, either, haha. But both my sister and I are 40+ and she has not had a computer for at least 10 years. Smartphone only.

We are refrigerate, we are refrigerate, we ARRRE refrigerate!

Unless things have changed, Ironfox is for mobile only.

You’re a little off on our ages, but your point still stands 🙂 What is behind that statement is me seeing him talk about these things for so long. He was messing with OS/2 and some Linux stuff before Windows came out, but completely quit after about 1993. He would, however, talk about it.

He was the first of us to get a smartphone (Apple) and did a lot of tinkering with it then, but quit. I personally have been using Linux OSes for 20 years and even gave an old desktop of mine to fiddle with 10 years ago, which he loved!

He wants to do this stuff but has trouble starting his own projects. He has spent time with my phone, my computers, etc. If I lived closer this would be a great way to spend time together since we don’t have a whole lot in common.

The reality is he is the nerdy kid who learned programming on punch cards and switched to that field in the 60s as soon as he learned what a computer was. He has always wanted to do “gadgety” things. He does have some dispensable income. I have enjoyed hearing him talk about this new nettop and the shenanigans he gets into with it! So much better than discussing the weather.

It’s been a long time since I used Ubuntu, but at the time I did I recall running into issues keeping too many old kernels. They were stored in a fixed space folder (or maybe partition?) that was like 100MB and sometimes wouldn’t clear out automatically, so I remember this. May not be relevant now, but if it is, space in the storage folder is the limiting factor so you would need to change that. If it IS a partition, then you would need to deal with all that is involved with that.

edited to add that my current OS only stores three or four as well. I have never really dived into it.

Would this not just be suicide? Linguistically, this would be “you,” but “you” would be “me.” It’s even weirder than talking about oneself in third person… IMO.

That could be. I tried the user agent switcheroo but then got stuck in a Cloudfare loop. While it worked for me in Firefox, I haven’t really fiddled much with the settings in it so it probably didn’t offer much protection and I didn’t do a private window. I think the best answer, for me, is to keep things like this partitioned off from some main browsing session. Not my area of expertise!

My elderly, former programmer father is one. Too bad it took him 30 years after first trying but he is up and running now for about three months 😁️ Now to get him off the Apple phone and into an alt android OS…

It blocked me with Librewolf, but works in Firefox. Seems weird.

Once I was able to pull it up, pretty neat interface! Lot’s of pictures of local places I don’t usually see. I will have some fun with this!

This is very awesome! I imagine most of us who floated over a couple years ago have figured out ways of making this happen, but what a huge obstacle for newcomers. Huge news!!!

I am US based, so maybe not relevant, but is it a good replacement for Merlin?

Does this have maps of it’s own?

I use this, it’s pretty great! Not really a replacement for the stock app, but I use a non-stock OS so it doesn’t matter to me. It is more like messaging before GIFs and whatnot, but not hard to figure those things out if you want them.

Ya, it works! But it is very much like a phone interface on the computer. Maybe not perfect but it exists.

As a stop gap to what @wjs018@piefed.wjs018.xyz mentioned, are you able to use the :hide read posts" option? I haven’t used that, I am not sure how it works, but I think at least then you wouldn’t see it. I guess you wouldn’t see other posts to follow up on then.

Wow, that sounds about right 🤷‍♂️ thanks for sharing!

They are good people! But they also hid Eric Rudolph so they are complicated people. Lots of neat things there. Thanks for your service!

I don’t think these politicians are thinking about this, but some of these safety features really are masking the lack of driving skill in the US.