pictures are taken by sorting machines of every piece of mail that goes through usps. that data is retained by the usps for a period of time, and is open to ‘law enforcement’ on request; and who knows what really happens to that data when the usps doesn’t want to hold it any longer.
rotisserie chickens are bred for that purpose and their lives are cut short to meet the cost and weight targets of the largest customers (walmart, etc), which means the facilities can produce ‘more’ in the same amount of time than roasters. they cost $6-10 here and $5-6 on sale (higher $ is at the regional convenience store chain, lower is wm), and i can frequently find ‘old’ ones in the cooler at wm marked down to $2 (yea, just two bucks each).
roasters are larger, priced by weight, and usually cost more (per bird) than rotisserie chicken. here, they’re $10-12 at wm, $15 and up at the ‘local’ grocery store. they’re rarely on sale.
and some are, apparently, obscure af:
“an issue with decoding LucasArts Smush codec, specifically the first 10-20 frames of Rebel Assault 2, a game from 1995.”
not shown: the small hose that ‘naturally’ refills the jacket.
every shit-tier chore ever conceived, and every task on every ‘honey do’ list ever made, would be completed. every day. on schedule. and without fail.
and the ‘game’ forces you to drop half your carried inventory as well as whatever was equipped in either hand when you do try to get back up.
if i had to provide a pc for work at home, it’d be a separate machine used exclusively for that, and isolated on its own lan.
and by ‘illegals’ they mean ‘brown people’ (regardless of origin or nationality or legal status to work here).
linux mint’s “installers” can boot into a live environment.
office back in the 9x days you could just use all 1’s.
that’s the one i remember… and the picture of it next to the release countdown at microsoft’s offices.
they actually still ‘win’, because you’re still using their platform.
afaik the major pc laptop vendors, dell, lenovo, hp, ms surface… all have at least some models now with glass or haptic trackpad.
you definitely encountered similar performance in windows. the processor isn’t speedy, by any stretch. kaby lake u-series i3 is slower than a desktop 4th gen i3.
“mid evil” is just a minor villain in a movie.
i tried them for awhile years ago, but determined fairly quickly that one is enough for me.
one of my first configurations on a new installs (ones with a DE) is setting number-of-desktops to ‘1’ and hiding the default switcher on the panel. even with a ui designed around multiple desktops (like the gnome implementation on my endless desktop at home) i just use one.
maga nuts and the rest of the ‘far right’. truth and an informed populace are their enemy.
it’s not a ‘waste’ if you’re making PIES.
you can mostly just create ISO files from the discs.
some original discs, especially games, may have a copy protection scheme (safedisc, securom, etc) that makes them unplayable without being run with the original media, though. there was some software back then that worked pretty well at ‘making backups’ of those discs. also note that some drives (the hardware itself) were better than others at running that software to make them. i haven’t kept up with that stuff in a very long time, so i don’t have a clue what exists today.
if that’s all you need it to do: browser, kitra, libreoffice and not much else… any mainstream distribution will work.
fedora’s ‘atomic’ distributions tick your boxes. minimal terminal exposure, hard to break, and infrequent demands of user password.
silverblue (gnome) or kinoite (kde). kde is a traditional desktop experience, but gnome would be excellent for your rather basic set-up.