I'm in the same boat. What I'd give to keep contact with my family without being forced to use the WhatsApp app.
NeatNit
Not American, ELI5?
This video about the history of IRC has been shared a bunch in the past few days: https://youtu.be/6UbKenFipjo
Worth a watch if you're into this kinda thing.
Just out of curiosity: what do you need that the newer versions have but the version on Mint is missing?
@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip okay, I won't be vague. I'm from Israel. Not hiding it, you can find out pretty easily from my comment history.
And in case you wondered, yes, I find the genocide in Gaza abhorrent and unacceptable. This is not the place to talk about this though so let's leave it at that.
Plot twist: Mimi is captivated, she loves this kind of tech stuff and also is facing the same kind of inconvenience with her own laptop so she could use it too.
Quite the opposite!
I've never seen ChromeOS. I think it's just not a thing in my country.
Who says he's cleaning though? It just says he's about to "start on her teeth", this could be an operation or an investigation into a complaint or anything else that a dentist would do.
Paleontologists hate this one weird trick!
Blasphemy!
Seconding the suggestion to start fresh. Make the old forum an archive, still readable but impossible to add or edit. If necessary, migrate it to a more lightweight system, perhaps one designed specifically for preserving old forum content (I don't know if there is one, just spitballing here).
You really should give some thought to whether Lemmy is a good format for your community. Forums are very different from Lemmy.