any ‘lawful’ access that’s baked-in will also be used and exploited ‘unlawfully’.

i’ve been using firefox and its predecessors since the very beginning, all the way back to pre-release navigator.

i do have (and have always had) other browsers installed (using ‘portable’ installations of them, mostly, these days). currently those include vivaldi, opera, librewolf and waterfox. at least one of which is added along side firefox on each desktop (most often also with a firefox dev edition). these are mostly for testing but also to separate specific online tasks into their own browser. the chromium-based ones are used for very specific things requiring addons that don’t work well or at all with firefox.

unless i need to in order to assist a client, i do not use chrome as provided by google, and i do not use edge from microsoft except for its primary function: downloading another browser when i don’t have a flash drive handy with its installer already downloaded and saved to it.

having actually read the policy documents in question and considering the intent and purpose of the changes that mozilla is making, i have no plans on changing my primary browser.

even the old ‘xp mode’ for win7 was just a vm.

you can have (well, used to) eggs anytime… fried, boiled, scrambled, omelets, poached–whatever. but gram’s special deviled eggs were for ‘special occasions’ only. she always made enough, so yea. gonna eat far more eggs that way than i ever would in a normal breakfast or meal.

i had just looked this one up recently:
the little nub on a peanut is an embryo.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/peanuts-embryo-nub_n_56d4a305e4b03260bf77b808

Steam is already on their systems, and may have been for 20+ years.

since the update to counter-strike that required it. so that’s what? 2003?

my original retail counter-strike was the first thing on mine. retail hl2 was second.

i was impressed with cosmic when i gave it a spin here… it has a lot of potential… just still very ‘incomplete’ currently.

it does get marginally better once you do run out.

i did my part. got about 40 of them last year.

epic freebies from 2024 played: 0

epic freebies from 2024 installed: 0

the only freebie of theirs i have installed right now is one of the CIVs.

tbh i don’t think a single can in a day is all that much if your diet is otherwise reasonable and balanced.

do you think it’s the bubbles or the 40-some mg of caffeine that gets you grabbing one every day?

wasn’t everyone born on 1 jan 1970 at 00:00:00 utc?

only the feds can prosecute federal crimes, afaik. this administration won’t let that happen. any federal prosecutor that wants to take a shot is gonna get fired or pushed out a window the instant their intent becomes known.

the dipshit would have to venture to a state with non-conflicting laws on the books, break them in some spectacular fashion, and that state would have to have an ag willing to go down that road and prosecute.

some cheap all-in-ones i’ve worked on have hdmi in and out.

one of 'em i have here is an old atom celeron dell aio with 1600x900 native screen but on its hdmi input, it’ll run at 1920x1080. and yea, running that instead of its true native res sucks about as bad as you think it would–but it is still ‘usable’. the real sucky bit, though, is the pc has to be on in order to switch it to hdmi in.

a lenovo aio that went through here a couple years ago had to be rebooted to switch it from hdmi input mode (acting as a standalone monitor) back to pc.

the first ‘cheat code’ that came to mind here isn’t for a game:

Select • Play • Select • 30 • Select

didn’t play much og sims, but sims2 (and later, iirc), motherlode gives more.

i also had a few custom items i could drop in to a house, too.

used to be one in rhel… system-config-date or something like that.

for linux and the most basic of basic tasks, i’d look at peppermint. it’s what i put on all the old crap here with ‘marginal’ specs that choke on windows. debian stable xfce based. base install is pretty sparse, not even a browser is included initially. a utility pops up after first boot to facilitate installing a browser, media player, and a few other things if you want them, or the entire debian stable repository is also available. one thing of note. with only 2gb ram, it’s gonna be tight, whatever he runs on it.

his use case is screaming for a cheap chromebook, though. so at least consider that instead. an old laptop like that might make someone a nice little pihole or something, if it’s not ready to be put down for good.

I know i would go crazy eating the same bland flakes

make it the total raisin bran variety and i could probably handle it for at least a month or two.

i’d probably opt for a cheap android tablet that’s only used for fb, nothing else.

and in ‘full paranoid’ mode, i’d also avoid using my own home or work wifi with it, too. the library’s public hotspot is convenient enough to both locations.

backup. backup. backup.

then also check the SMART stats on it and run the internal tests. if you don’t know how, gsmartcontrol is a good place to start.

i’ve had a couple disks fail right away, and others that just go forever–and one of those is a deathstar, even.