4-day work weeks are great, especially if you have a significant commute, because you’re cutting 20% of that right out. the adding 2 hours to every work day, not so much; but the longer hours can mean that traffic is a bit lighter. the guaranteed week day off is huge when you have ‘stuff’ to do.
probably lack of volunteers to make it uefi compatible, and not worth putting paid talent on an optional feature used by a really, really small number of people. bitlocker-as-default would have broke it for good anyway.
is what? endless? it is a distribution, produced by the endless foundation.
https://endlessglobal.com/foundation/access/operating-system
my ‘monitor’ (really, an aio with hdmi in) runs win10/endless dual boot. this is the endless side. note the loop device in the gnome disks window, that’s the .img on c:\ that holds endless. efi grub handles the boot menu. all set up by the endless for windows ‘installer’.
the wubi installer. i remember that. installed ubuntu inside a container file and added boot entry so could choose at boot time. yea, that was never really supported when it was offered but it mostly worked.
endless os does have that option yet today. and it does work–with some caveats: it’s slow af with a hdd. well, immutable distros in general are, but this install method just makes it worse. and your windows c: cannot be encrypted (e.g. bitlocker). also be aware that the next version (endless 7) that’s in development will change pretty much everything ‘under the hood’ that makes endless what it is, as they’re moving from their customized gnome and in-house immutable debian base to an immutable based on gnome os itself.
just wait til you hit 55 and there’s no foolin’ anyone anymore.
missing third panel:
returning to the water, some time later.
“here’s your twenty bucks. it sucks up there.”
we’ve known for months that clarkson’s show was ending at the conclusion of the current whatever tf a ‘season’ is these days. wouldn’t surprise me any if it wasn’t really kelly’s idea. she’s like the ‘anti’ of whatever today’s brand of billionaire/ceo/dicktator wants to see on tv.
grape jam or strawberry preserves here. switch to the other when a jar gets emptied so i don’t get tired of one.
irfanview,
paint.net (since 3.5)
programs i’ve used since they both began… for irfanview, that’s 30 years.
probably like the ones mentioned here rolling out in d.c.:
https://electrek.co/2026/05/17/amazon-is-deploying-these-massive-cargo-e-bikes-for-deliveries/
i literally forgot he even existed.
if you’re like me and just need the noise from the fan, and not the air circulation, there are other, more efficient ways to get white noise… some of which would have battery power available.
for instance, i use an old laptop (with an internal battery for ‘backup’) and usb powered speakers (the ones built in aren’t loud enough when the lid is closed (it runs that way). if the power goes out, the laptop runs for several hours (even with the old battery) before it hibernates due to a low battery.
if you’d plug a device into a regular wall outlet for power, it’s ac. if your power bank has an internal inverter and provides an ac outlet, you should be able to just plug it in–provided its power demands fit within the output specs of the power bank. a normal box fan using 20-75w (approximately what ours here are, depending on age. newer models are more efficient) should be ok.
you watch them. why can’t they watch you?
iirc (gnome) tweaks has a toggle for separating dialogs from parents.
test results were inconclusive. please provide additional samples.
gnome dumbed itself down too far, it’s turning into the win10 or 11 of linux–with features, basic features… expected features and functions, now missing… and the bland ui that makes it difficult to even see a damn window border without customizing tf out of it. i do not subscribe to their idea of one workspace per window or application. fk that.
the only thing that was keeping it on a few systems here was an extension. one not even made by them. i found an equivalent kwin script for plasma. starting switching stuff over the next day.
i won’t go back. and i’ve found that gtk and libadwaita stuff actually looks better on kde, anyway. so no change in what i’m using, just what everything runs from.
i might still put gnome on for others, if all they’re looking for is a dumbed-down, simple launcher for their browser–like an alternative to chromebook, but that’s it.
while personally training the next generation, too.