WalrusDragonOnABike

Just back up any important files. I've had to do many reinstallations because of accidentally breaking things.

For pdf software, using wine is an option. It also has been a concern of mine with switching, but it seems the software I've been using (PDFxchange) works fine with wine.

I've found out with other things that family needs to be told to keep personal details private from other immediate family. My brother has gotten better about respecting my privacy regarding things like GSM stuff by default, but still assumes similarly queer friends are free to be told (and I believe giving a lot of personal details related to that, not just the label; tbh, I'm actually fine with that, but it still feels like something he should have asked first about).

With autism I'd especially assume no privacy unless explicitly requested because I'd assume people already knew anyways. A diagnosis doesn't really change that.

The bypass thing happens when making the boot drive and is basically the exact same process as Linux. It just asks do you want to bypass it and you click that. If you aren't getting a boot drive, then you can't install it. And making a boot drive is the easiest part of a Linux installation.

The bypass is just ticking a box while making the bootdrive to install the OS. If making a bootdrive is too hard, installing linux is probably out of the question.

Yeah. Wouldn't be confident to say within our lifetime given things like Yellowstone eruption or nuclear winter could change that.

Given the la nina cycle hasn't started yet, the next couple of years expected to be cooler? But one of those could be the coolest July for a very long time.

Its pretty rare; usually only the last 4 digits as a step in verification on some occasions.

You're a friend to me.

Vivaldi is cool. I installed it (for those who wanted a chromium browser) and FF on all the work computers where I work. Eventually uninstalled it because people started playing Vivaldia. Disabled Edge, so now they are FF only.

Brave has built-in wallet support and such, but I don't think it does any mining, does it? It just has its own opt-in ad system to pays out in crypto and is also owned by a turd.

FF still hasn't brought back a tab group API for extensions or native tab groups. Extensions can only do so much given what they have to work with. I still use FF on the side, but it simply isn't a practical as a primary browser for me currently.

But for casual users, many probably have never even touched their browser settings.

I just listened to a rugrats song yesterday though.