Easy access to a few key functions is nice, IMO. Though helping someone on their computer and seeing half the taskbar occupied with two dozen system tray icons makes me vomit just a little, so I get it.

When your mom says you’re not getting out of cleaning this time…

Electricity makes dumb rock go brrrr

Electricity makes dumb head muscle go brrrr

Brain = rock, QED

It’s a vespa.

Looks like medieval scorched earth. Any chance there’s an English version?

I use Dreamhost, can’t speak to the privacy but the rates are pretty good

Not sure what kind of tinker board you’re working with, but the power of Pis has increased exponentially through its generations. There are tasks that would run slowly on a dedicated Pi2 that ran easily in parallel with a half dozen other things on a Pi4.

The older ones can still be useful, just for less intensive tasks.

If you’re looking for something that can handle AAA games, I’ve had a great experience with my Dell G5. Linux Mint had everything working out of the box, including the dedicated Nvidia GPU (though I agree with others, AMD is easier in Linux).

My laptop also has the advantage of allowing you to do weight training every time you move it, so there’s that to consider.

I’m with you in that I think some athletes are overpaid. That being said, there’s so much difference between several million and a billion.

For reference, one million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is 31 years. The numbers don’t seem that different when they’re written down, because our brains can’t really grasp those numbers, but the difference is enormous.

I agree with bringing into question earnings like some athletes get, but the billionaire problem is much bigger and more urgent.

Wouldn’t be the worst option out there, but I wouldn’t wish that on the woman.

Did he keep the 2 billion for himself?

I think the point is that anyone who gets and keeps that much money is not a good person. A billion dollars is more than any person could ever need for themselves. Consider that having a meager 10 million in the bank at a pitiful 2% return of interest would provide $200,000 per year, which is a very comfortable life. Who can justify keeping 100x that? And how can you justify it when a tiny fraction of that would revolutionize thousands of people’s lives?

The problem with that thinking is that his wealth wouldn’t be possible without a ton of other people’s work. His work relied on hardware and other software, and was built on the work of his predecessors, like all software is. He certainly came up with a good product and did well with it, but it wasn’t done in a vacuum. There’s no such thing as a “self-made” billionaire.

I can’t believe that anything that one person produces is worthy enough for a billion dollars. It’s like saying it’s worth more than a year’s worth of work from 65,000 people (based on min wage in the US). Nothing can be worth that much, in my opinion.

The only exception I can think of is Dolly Parton. I read a report that suggested she’d be among the world’s wealthiest if she weren’t consistently giving away 90%+ of her income.

The problem is that anyone with that much wealth has already proven their selfishness by not giving away most of it. It’s the classic issue of “Anyone who can be elected should never be elected.”

I’ve had good experiences with GetSimple. It uses a flat-file structure, and there are lots of themes available.