Where I live, we’ve gotten alerts at 2 or 3 am because someone shot at police in a completely different city an hour or two away.

This is interesting. I didn’t know there were so many different systems.

Lentils and chickpeas are so good and cheap.

Well, you’re right and I’m surprised I’ve never thought of this before.

Where I live, the local government is all at-large, so no one runs as a member of any party, but you can separate everyone into two groups of “people who want the town to provide basic services”, like parks and libraries, and “people who want to keep property taxes as low as possible” by not spending money on any services.

This is what I did. I narrowed down the distros I was looking at to about 5 that I thought might meet my needs, and made a live usb for each one, then used it as I would my regular system for a couple days. Anything that didn’t work right got eliminated, and I picked the one I liked best out of the ones where everything worked.

If he’s keeping Windows to begin with, then logically he may still update it. It’s helpful to know that it might mess up his Linux installation.

I found a very similar one, also in Germany, many years ago. I figured mine was a cow tooth, although I’m not sure how old it was. Most people no longer kept cows in that town at the time that I lived there.

Installing an iso from a usb drive and installing an iso after mounting it as a virtual drive seem like they involve roughly the same level of technical skill to me. Booting from cd or usb was a routine school or business activity for decades. Mounting an iso as a drive has been built into Windows for a much shorter period of time. The last time I used Windows, you needed third party software for that. I would bet on a random person off the street to be able to do the first one more reliably than the second. But, more installation options are always better.

I totally forgot Super Crack, and now I wonder what my life has become.

Running up-to-date software gives me far less problems than running software full of bugs that were fixed 5 years ago, personally. If you find a new bug, you can at least report it and hope to see it fixed in the next update. You find bugs that were fixed years ago, but the fixed version isn’t in your repo, and then you have to start building things yourself.

I have no reason to believe the average person can’t manage a usb stick. They’re a common way for photos, videos, and records to be sent from one business office to another. I’ve never worked with anyone who had any particular difficulty using them, and my coworkers weren’t all especially intelligent or interested in computers.

Near me, city council positions are all at-large, and political affiliations, if any, aren’t mentioned anywhere, not in promotional materials or on campaign websites.

It would be more of a surprise than the other way around.

Man, I haven’t thought about Frankenhooker in a long time