Lessons, living with parents with dementia: when an app on their phone spontaneously changes it's icon, it's a fucking disaster.
Some Google engineer launched a feature that got them a promotion and now my mom can't use her phone anymore. Silicon Valley is incapable of imagining a user who isn't a 27 year old white man.
Me too. I've started running it on one of the older machines to get used to it. It feels that with Windows 11 you're effectively using a terminal that you're renting.
I recommend trying a Live USB made with Rufus. You can tick a box to give it permanent storage and then any changes you make in livecd mode will stick between reboots. All the Ubuntu versions should support this mode.
Gladly. Rufus is https://rufus.ie/en/ , it can write a linux disk to a USB. A lot of Linux DVD images have the option to just run off the disk (LiveCD), as if you had it installed, but since it runs in memory, nothing is saved permanently. If you select the option in Rufus to make a permanent partition it lets the LiveCD functionality save to the USB as it's C: drive, or /home/user/ on linux, so it can store bookmarks, installed software, updates, whatever.
It actually works as a layer ontop of the disk image, so you can install updates and make other lower level changes as well.
Does that make sense?
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