Patiently booting Linux from thumb drive. It’s kinda cool. One thing is already obvious: this is the only viable pathway for this machine. 403 forbidden error trying to download its original OS. No issues with WiFi drivers yet. Oooooo… multimedia codecs. Partying like it’s 1999. Is that Spotify? That’s coming off. Part of me is rather enchanted by the little spinning-colour wheel. But I can see it being unwelcome over time. Oh, I see what you- it’s not pre-installing Spotif, just letting me know I can have it if I want to get music through [DELETED “an AI weaponry combine”] that service. Looking forward (as an incidental) to making everyone use Hostpoint for video meetings european-alternatives.eu
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(I’ve plugged the laptop in because conscious I’m asking a lot of it to do this on battery and I don’t want it to clunk out part way) (Relevant only because it means I’m no longer actually watching it install moment by moment) OOOH It’s got a funky screensaver all its own while it installs. looks like something from an early 2000s post-apocalypse bunker movie. PROVIDE DNA SAMPLE TO OPEN ARMOURY DNA SAMPLE: NEGATIVE. YOU ARE NOT A HUMAN-LOTAXI HYBRID. DECONTAMINATION ENGAGED. Might play some BG3 while I wait. My current play through took an unexpected turn when I misclicked and staked Astarion. I did not expect him to actually die and I’m genuinely a bit horrified. Mint is up and running! Very satisfying. First slight fiddly thing: the trackpad is a bit jittery. Happily, one search provides a place to start... discourse.ubuntu.com
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God, this is weirdly familiar. It’s like being one of the people who knew how to reinstall mouse drivers on the Pentium desktops in the college library in 1992. Sucked in. This is terrifying. I can see myself becoming intolerable about this in short order.