Thanks, I’ll check them out. I’ve heard mint a few times as a good beginner distro. I’ll probably dual boot my PC on whatever I am gonna recommend him for a bit so I get my bearings and can support him a bit :)

No it doesn’t, but my 75yo dad has been asking/thinking about switching when Windows 10 eol.

Most of my Linux/Unix experience is at the server level.

What distro did you get them on?

I owned a 1992 and 1994 Eagle Talon Tsi AWD (the '94 was pretty modified). I had a lot of fun in that car.

It was a mid 12 sec (in the 1/4 mile) car on pump gas in the late 1990’s. I upset a lot of Corvette’s, Mustangs and Camaro’s back then.

My license plate was ‘V8EATR’. :)

Same 4G63 as the Talon/Laser/Eclipse and AWD… Family race car.

Doesn’t help on my Nvidia shield

Top on my premium wish list is a way to disable them completely

Can’t fix stupid

Glad we bought a bidet after the last wrath of morons did this.

Ya, I went for a walk and had my phone/ear buds in and as soon as I got away from the house it stopped working. Tried toggling airplane mode, and rebooting, no luck. When I got back I had a msg from my wife asking if I’d changed our verizon service.

YouTube is but one, and as I said while the story is about yt I was talking Mir in general. How do you pay for content/services in general?

Right now with via ads or a subscription.

How’s that work on tvs?

So, steal everything or something else? Content isn’t free. The ad model exists, but only works if people see the ads.

If everyone blocks all ads, and doesn’t pay a subscription, how’s that work for those providing the service?

I’m not defending YouTube here, just curious what your solution is to have a service and not pay for it.

I do pay for YT family Premium in the US. I watch mostly YT, and it is my music streaming service. I definitely​ liked it more when it was costing me $15/mo for that and was mad when that went to $23. I even tried switching to Spotify and using ad blocking on YT. I didn’t jive with Spotify, and while ad blockers work for YT, it’s a bit of a pain installing them on TV boxes and managing subscriptions across devices, asking with which videos you’ve seen etc.

“Alpha male” victim

I’m here, but not doing much with Arduino’s ATM… most of the new devices I’ve been playing with are ESP32’s connected to my Home Assistant. Much easier for me as a non programmer to edit/modify a yaml file :)

It’s annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can’t just turn them off

I’ll continue to not watch shorts, tik toks, reels or any other ADHD inducing short form content.

Ya, I’m not sure that has ever been true as a blanket statement.

*to women

The pay bill button on my capital one CC account doesn’t work on Firefox. Once a month I have to use a chromium based browser.