So it’s Scoop, but for Linux? (That’s a compliment. I love Scoop.)

upvotes Linux meme

But my achievements…!

(I’m serious about this.)

You just have to use the side of your foot (like in soccer) instead of the front.

Any more details?

This sounds like the setup to a fun story.

If it was the second Tuesday of the month, probably updating.

I’d heard some hospitals were affected. They cancelled appointments and non-critical surgeries.

I’m guessing it was mostly their “behind the desk” computers that got affected, not the computers used to control the important stuff. The computers in patients’ rooms may have been affected as well, but (at least in the US) those are usually just used to record information about medicine given and other details about the patient, nothing critical that can’t be done manually.

But the computer is within leg’s reach.

Their computers may not be affected, but their everyday lives might be. Some of the affected services include 911, stoplights, banks, hospitals, and a whole other smorgasbord of stuff.

It wasn’t a virus definitions update. It was a driver update. The driver is used to identify and block threats incoming from wifi and wired internet.

The “Outage” section of the Wikipedia article goes into more detail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident#Outage

The last time I had to setup a Windows profile (late last year on my then-new laptop), that was the case. Has that changed?

Being forced to be online to log in and forced use of OneDrive confuses new users just as much

You’re not forced to use either of those, IIRC. Just set it up without connecting to the internet or without signing in.

I installed Mint on a USB to give it a go.

My wifi driver doesn’t work on it. I have to plug my phone in to use it as a tethered hotspot to get it to connect. And I tried what a lot of the guides said online. Nothing.

I’d say I have the technical chops. I just don’t have the time and energy needed to try to fix something.

I’m also the kind of person that, if everything’s not working exactly the way I want it to, then I need to fix it right now. So I know I’d waste hours trying to fix something that (for me) just works on Windows.

To be fair, at least with Windows, if you do a reinstall I’ve always found that it never runs quite like it used to. I’ve sometimes had to deal with some weird quirks afterwards. A friend of mine who kept switching between Google Android and open-sourve Android on his phone said the same thing. Every time he reinstalled Google Android, it simply wouldn’t run as well as it did beforehand.

It’s like taking a plumbing pipe out and putting it back in. Or taking apart a car engine and putting it back together. It never quite fits together the way it used to anymore.

The IT admin: https://youtu.be/5l6l9T2w1DQ

They update on two Tuesdays a month

Correction: It updates every second Tuesday of the month. (Not including any potential “Preview” updates which might get released. Those are all optional updates, though.)

I just use the AdGuard app. It runs all my Internet traffic through an on-device VPN server (The VPN is the phone itself.), and it uses that to filter out all the ads.

Like ability to install different desktop enviroment?

Technically, with root access, yeah. It’s just that Android’s UI isn’t a DE/WM in the desktop Linux sense

You can also just install different apps that change the home screen. Android calls them “launchers”. You can install one from the Google Play Store or elsewhere like any other app. Then just set it up. Once it’s setup, the phone simply loads that app’s launcher instead of the phone’s default launcher (which is usually also an app).

Believe it or not, I don’t think this is technically from an anime. One of the characters is (the short one in front), but the picture itself appears to be from DeviantArt. The other character, as far as I can tell, is an OC. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong.) Even the DeviantArt post just calls him “Anime Boy”.

The short character in front appears to be a character named Tomoko Kuroki, the main character in the show “No Matter How I Look At It, It’s You Guys Fault I’m Not Popular!” (It’s apparently usually referred to by a shortening of it’s Japanese title: “WataMote”.)

I’m a little surprised I learned all this just from a reverse image search.