You could try cockpit, it is webgui for your system, it has an area where you can see what services are launched and enable/disable them.

If you try OpenSUSE their s a GUI made for startup/enable/disable settings

USB Cable connection, power failing? Is drive set to power down on idle and then falling off the radar?

SID was a chip with both digital and analog sides to the die and can do a lot of things still, making them sought after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6581

Awesome

Hmm. I did have one machine that would install from USB but would not boot after. Turned outbit was a hardware glitch deb and deb derived distros could not get past, so I found RPM based worked fine as did NixOS (weirdly)

Is secure boot turned on? If so you will probably need to turn that off. EFI boot entries get set in the UEFI somehow, so once you get it booted it should see it. But how old is the PC? Could be a limitation if it is old.

Do you have an option to allow legacy USB boot? My desktop has this off by default so will not boot from a USB drive

I play these on repeat occasionally.

Pacific by 808state https://youtu.be/DHBTooSE2Ss

Rong by Ryoksopp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1CXWVAIf1k

Try a few. The distro hopping is part of the fun, till you find one that suits you. We have one old laptop and it does not play nice with debian/ubuntu based distros…some fail at installer, some install and the fail to boot. But RPM based distros or even NixOS were totally fine. (Some hardware bug tripping deb based distros). So if something doesn’t work at first, don’t give up.

Live ISOs are a nice try before you buy method to test linux.

If you do want to try gaming Bazzite is a good choice

Can confirm. I have an arm board from 2010 with 256MB of RAM. it hosts music fine through minidlna and still has memory and cpu free

I had something similar happen with a DVD iso. It would not copy across network, and cpu would skyrocket if I put it on drive another way. For mine it turned out to be the tracker-miner getting hung up on the content indexing. Specifically it was a DVD with a prank menu option. The menu option was “Break my player” which if you chose it would totally lock the DVD player and only fix was unplugging it for a hard power cycle. Somehow whatever code did that was messing with the content indexer

Firefox Immersive Reader button

Possibly, but the articles says they were operating on surplus funds until it ran out. Sounds like because of surplus funds they weren’t actively looking for new sources of income…until oops pocket is empty

Ha nice

Aside for all his pedophile view points, he is correct about infantilizing 12-17 year olds. We have helicopter parents removing every roadblock for children, they grow up not knowing how to plan or resolve conflict.

from his stand point the kids gave consent, he did not seem to grasp that due to age or vulnerabilty/power differential they can’t consent. It is like he is thinking of it like a code problem not a human problem. i.e. IF (Consent=true)(AllOK) else(NotOK)

It seems it is a product of modern western style culture. Move away from family for independence, spend best days of life slogging away to live paycheck to paycheck.

I worked with a few filipinos that immigrates to Canada. While the believe Canada is a good place to live, they mention the lonely culture here. They said in the Phillapines every weekend, or sometines day, was a party with friends or family. They always made up a party to celebrate something.

I think we have forgotten that communty village living is what humans evovled to, and yearn.

Another Filipino said canada is great, but everything needs money. Housing is expensive, food is expensive, cars, and all the bills. He said back home we live more simple, no need for a heating bill because of climate, no need for a water bill. If I want water I drill a hole in the ground. So life is about living not earning

Firefox has a built in password manager, it is stored on each machine you sync. But to anwer your question any cloud stored data is vulnerable, so be sure your password manager supports other verification measures such as Yubikey as another factor of authentication

We have blippy power in the windy season, a 1 second outage was enough to trash hardware, not to mention dirty power you may not visibly notice. My UPS kicks in every few weeks for a few seconds to provide clean power when the utility is falling short or over volting. Having a battery take over is super helpful

Starts with NO wildlife will kill you, describes all the ones that can ;)

It is like Canada, we have Bears, Wolves, Moose and Polar Bears, etc.

Stay out of their way and you will be fine, they aren’t actively scouting homes to kill people.