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it’s been almost a year here, i’m still going down (what my mind thinks is) the ‘correct’ aisle, only to be reminded when i get there that what i’m looking for i literally walked past a minute earlier, five rows back.

they’re just pushing more higher margin products. they’ll restock the ‘basics’ more frequently as a result of giving those things less shelf space.

was it a computer or other tech item that has seen greatly increased prices lately? we ran into something like that recently at wm. went to buy a basic desktop pc at what was then a pretty fair price. was turned-away in-store even though the web site stated availability and price we were looking for was available for same-day store pickup. turns out they pulled the shelf inventory and didn’t have any “in stock” to sell. we ordered online instead (again with store delivery, even) and got it delivered for the expected price. the very next morning they were back on the shelf, but at a far higher price. we just caught them in the midst of a very substantial price increase… well over 40% higher.

ctrl-f5 should take you to the top after a full refresh. takes longer, though, because it forces the browser to re-fetch any resources like media and scripts that exist in its cache.

i wouldn’t mind being punished like that.

that is pretty lazy, especially on a pc where if you’d just have the energy to move a finger over to the right side of the keyboard to tap HOME once is all it would take.

slip-on shoes aren’t just for little kids, the elderly, or others that can’t tie shoes.

they. are. awesome.

i always loose-tie my sneakers anyway so they could be slipped-on and off easily, but stretchy ‘no tie’ laces are a huge upgrade from that.

we went to walmart awhile back to pick something up that was in stock in our store.

the asshole behind the electronics counter said “we don’t have that in stock”. didn’t even look. didn’t want to check his handheld after we showed him what the web site said.

we stood right there and ordered it online… for delivery from the store.

we finished up there, swung through arbys drive through, then filled-up the car.

and we barely beat the delivery guy from the store home.

microsoft linux

yup. works very well. been using it whenever an image fails to boot properly on my multiboot usb…

not quite.

in this case, the guy was out of town–but someone else was driving his car. the ticket is presumably valid. and like other automated ones (and toll collections, parking violations, etc) the owner gets the ticket or bill. and i guess state law there says the registered owner’s driving record gets the ding, regardless of who was driving. this guy has to rat out the actual driver in order to get the ticket sent to them instead.

during my k12, we went from PET to apple II and gs (apple was wizards at selling their junk to schools), and finally getting out from under apple and adding a few 386s at the end.

barney’s back… an animated ‘relaunch’ last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney’s_World

an image viewer with the feature set and workflow of irfanview on windows.

“broken” and “stopped” are not the same thing. that’s why “even a broken clock…” doesn’t make sense. the wording should be “a stopped clock”

a “broken” one could just be a little “fast” or “slow”, spinning erratically, or otherwise inconsistent and unreliable, and rarely (if ever) report the correct time.

you’re on the right track, i think, but not bazzite–that carries a lot of extra stuff that isn’t necessary here. just ordinary fedora silverblue. clean up the app grid or put dash-to-dock on it and put the few launchers they need down on that. gnome is actually a good desktop for basic users that just need to run one or a few applications. updates are somewhat frequent but should be almost entirely automatic.

i have a few users like your parents on endless os, which is similar to silverblue, just based on an in-house immutable debian instead of silverblue’s fedora base. i rarely ever hear from them, it ‘just works’. i also have it at home, it’s currently my only linux desktop there (i do most my ‘work’ at the office, home is just doom-scrolling and media for the most part these days). updates are less frequent but endless is switching to a gnome os base with the next major version. that will probably increase the frequency of updates a bit compared to their older debian base. that upgrade to v7 should be mostly invisible to the user, they’ve done a good job in the past with upgrades.

many were there first, long before microsoft bought the site. but now? yea. why tf are people still using it.

and then there’s also this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_vaulting

debian stable misses a lot of the ‘fun’.

like we’re seeing with Android’s “Desktop mode”.

apple is already in on this game, as well.