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"My experience getting older relatives to use Mint has not gone well. The most common is their reliance on Microsoft Office" I was asked by an older friend to put Linx on their com…

For now, you can get a copy at https://archive.org/details/CIA-World-Factbook-collection

My scrollbar changes in Debian: 1. as root, edit /etc/environment and add: GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 2. in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css add: .scrollbar.vertical slider, scrollbar.vertic…

Here is a reference regarding window borders: https://mxlinux.org/wiki/xfce/changing-border-size-with-xfce...

> Only one thing I wish I could set, allow windows to cover the 'bar'. Yes, I can make the bar auto-hide, but I cannot have a portion of it covered by a window. If I understand you…

OK, here you go: US Dept of Homeland Defence: https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-solarwinds-cybe... US Congressman Ron Wyden to FTC: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025…

"I always assumed emails are case sensitive" Wikipedia has a good summary on what is valid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address From the second paragraph: Although the stan…

I was allowed to go down two short tunnels, one led to part of the underground drainage (the end of it was blocked so I didn't get to look at the drainage itself). Overall it seems…

Wow! That sure brings back memories. I've been there twice, 2011 & 2012. Congratulations. I'm very impressed.

RE: The only states in the US where that is the case are Wyoming and Montana That is absolutely incorrect. In Oregon, from the town that I live in, it is at least 45 minutes to the…

I'm not surprised at the rise in homeschooling. When you have anti-education groups like the Oregon Department of Education [1] running the public school system, any parent that ca…

Agreed. I prefer proper packaging and a clean system. I remove any flatpak services that get installed. So far there is a total of two AppImages that I've ever needed to use and th…

No, the reason (in my case) was because the public schools prioritize social agendas over academic quality. My kids can do advanced math. My neighbor's kids estimate or guess. I ho…

I use the nearly the same. - Zim-Wiki for items or procedures that I refer to or repeat often. Zim-Wiki is mostly plain text and transportable, but handles embedding small screensh…

I suggest using the ESR version rather than the rapid release version: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/all/#product-desktop-e... I suggest learning about policies to manage t…

You think it is good to "throw Taiwan under the bus" all for the sake of some organization being able to monitor a disease? Sad. Following your logic, would it would be OK to "thro…

Awesome - I went to Project Gutenberg, picked a title that I was curious about but for which the Bibliographic Record does not have a description. Gave the Kagi Summarizer the URL …

Just started reading the article, it looks nice! In this sentence: It’s a 7 bits codes, allowing to send bigger messages than with the Baudot (or the Murray) code, even including t…

The Dalles, Oregon is a real city.

>> ... multiple devices, that alone... A big assumption. POP3 works perfectly fine and is preferable in my situation.

> Where does one find other parents who are homeschooling their children? I suggest starting with your state resources (assuming you are in the USA). Here are a couple for Oregon: …

>> `network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy` to 1 in Firefox Thanks! Just checked and it is at zero for the default. Reviewed https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer and learned some…

The advantage of a computer and flexible web page designs are to make search results easy to view and understand. In the 2'x4' piece of birch plywood example above, I saw a mix of …

Others commenting about sanctions are correct. Chase did what was expected. Your experience was your fault. Hopefully your account isn't frozen (happened once to a friend where the…

Keep both. Don't hook them up. Tear them apart and see what DYI project arises or parts can be used for your other projects. There is no obligation to Google or Amazon to use them …