ad-skip to present day. encryption and drm is being introduced into the new atsc 3.0 broadcast standard, and some stations are already using it.
ad-skip to present day. encryption and drm is being introduced into the new atsc 3.0 broadcast standard, and some stations are already using it.
ting hasn’t been the same since dish bought it from tucows.
on my arch-based systems, i use repos first, aur second. appimages third. i do also have a couple minor things (that are self-contained with no dependencies) that were just ‘unzipped’ into their own directories and links added to menus where appropriate. note that i don’t game on these systems. i don’t have a lot of aur packages installed, so updates and subsequent recompile time isn’t an issue.
i have yet to run into anything i want or need that isn’t available in those. so no flatpaks or snaps.
hard drives are going to be slow af copying data to itself, or moving data to a different partition on it.
then you’re also adding partition size manipulation to the mix, which will also be slow af when data has to be moved off the ‘end’ of partitions to ‘make room’ to enlarge or create another with a different fs.
your best option is to get another drive, even if it’s also a hard drive instead of ssd. use that to move (copy, really, to preserve the original as a backup for the time being) all the data to that you want to preserve.
upgrades have been working fine here, both linux and windows, for well over a decade.
only if a system is also being repurposed at the time of the ‘upgrade’, or if i’m changing the connection type of the boot drive (such as from sata to nvme, or switching an older system to ahci mode) do i install ‘from scratch’.
definitely keep windows on it to begin with. once you’re fully settled-in on linux and haven’t even looked at windows for at least a couple weeks, make one last backup… then nuke it or repurpose it.
as real as artificial cheese.
the scammers are already using ‘ai’
raise your hand if you ever thought training ‘ai’ on the whole of the internet was a good idea.
those sound highly addictive.
upgraded here. no problems. didn’t even notice the version increment until i went looking for it.
those were so long ago they’re small enough that windows would still be able to format them fat32 even with its built-in limitations on formatting that filesystem.
what would be completely useless is scrolling through a larger flash drive’ or card’s files, one or two at a time.
if you have to work all three shifts every three weeks, you can’t realistically hold-down a second job or attend regular classes, you’re exclusively at the disposal of your masters.
you mean debian, right?
they count clicks on a distro’s page on their site, not usage or anything else.
if they dared put hanna montana linux on there, it would be the perpetual #1 listing.
i use private windows mainly so i don’t clutter up browser histories with useless stuff i won’t go back to (if i do run across something to save, it gets bookmarked or printed to pdf).
when i lived down in texas (and a couple other places), the stores had can-sized paper bags for the big cans and for regular 12oz ones. and i’d see guys having clerks at the store ‘bag’ their beer (even each can of an intact six-pack)…
then see them a few lights down the road chugging one at a red.
if it supports the basic hardware, there’s nothing wrong with peppermint for basic stuff like your use case. after the base system is installed, add a browser and libreoffice and you’ll have a nice little system for writing on.
if you want to keep using windows on it, you’ll probably have to ‘start over’ with a plain install of windows (without hp’s junk, and to a clean–partition table cleared–‘hard drive’), uninstall the useless crud like candy crush that comes with the base windows install, ensure compactos is enabled (it should be automatically enabled with those specs), install your browser and word processor. you shouldn’t have to do thing where you connect an external drive for ‘working’ space for updates (something i’ve only ever had to do twice on 32gb emmc models) anymore as long as updates stay relatively current.
but with only 2gb ram and a 10 year old ‘atom’ based cpu, i’d probably go straight for peppermint.
correct; acquired in 2013.