There’s a discovery center store, or YAST2 GUI software center. This isn’t the 90s.

Nice.

I’m not sure about those devices, but with a paid account it unlocks speaker grouping and casting to various devices or rooms, or play here on current device function. I don’t have their device, just a raspberry pi with the OS.

Does Volumio suit your needs? I haven’t used Plex audio to compare

Not sure, my friends hate it online and in real life

The 10 year old phone OS probably is slowing all of that. If they flashed phone as a dedicated webserver it would probably be fine

Proton or Tuta mail. Supports aliasing so you can make unique email addresses per website, and trash them if you get spammed.

Singing up for a paid account you also get VPN, drive storage, password manager, docs, sheets, AI chat (I know), calendar, meetings and authenticator.

Yep, they work decently. Mine has 256Mb RAM and handles music streaming and Samba Shares via OoenMediaVault. I have it blocked from the internet these days since it can’t install latest kernels and probably has a ton of exploit CVEs

Yep. I’m old. I play Wingspan to chill, but also Mech Warrior 5 Mercenaries for some action shooting.

Sensible choice. Rabbit holes are better left alone, unless you have nothing else to do

Just missing codecs right? OOTB OpenSUSE is like that, but you switch repos to one that has the non free codecs etc

My iomega ARM based NAS from 15 years ago runs Debian

Aren’t those stored in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/profile.default/.

You just have to go into no script and approve the parts that make the website function but not the ad stuff. Its a pain when you first land on a site but the browser remembers what you have allowed. So overtime you get back to normal working sites, minus ads and tracking stuff

If you had a video of people new to Windows you’d find the same issues or worse.

My wife was struggling so badly to run her windows laptop (she was used to a cellphone only), partly because windows does quirky things we just get used to when running Windows; so we swapped the OS to linux and she’s much happier, its the same everyday and doesn’t get in her way.

It didn’t even apply to GNOME. Samba servers just show up in the network section of nautilus.

Everything in the article seems misplaced or mispoken. GNOME Nautilus, click on network, if a server exists it shows up, you click it and login to the share (same as Windows except you don’t have to assign a drive letter), and options asks of you want to remember user name and password. Done. Or you type smb://host/share.

Seems easier than Windows non GUI of: net use D: \host\share /USER:username password.

And when I was new to Linux GNOME Disks just made perfect sense to me. Select a drive, format it, partition it, add a relevant filesystem.

The whole article is a guy complaint it doesn’t work like he thinks it should because he knew windows way first.

I mean it’s like Bill Cosby who played the Wholesome dad, and did Jello Pudding Pop commercials, then revealed he’s a young girl drug and rape guy. It sucks but people can be monsters beyond the facade. Fame gives a privilidge that seems a lot of people take advantage of.

Did you see the MJ documentary where the kid (now adult) and his family came forward to tell what happened?
Even if you thought the info about MJ masturbating to the kid bent over is fake for some reason, the provable logistics are consistent with a grooming pedophile.

Flatter the kid, promise him fame, same with family. Pay for their trips to be with you on tour. Book kid into same room as MJ, but book parents on a different floor or other end of building. Etc

Downtown area is small. But lots of amazing food places, and A Casino if you like that sort of thing. Downtown used to be popular 20+ years ago but its been slowly atrophying with tons of closed businesses since