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  • it would compress well for an archival backup, so that’s what i’d do for the ‘originals’.

    if your long message chains look anything like mine, there’s far more quoted material overall than new text in most mails; and not all new text would be relevant to whatever is being saved… so it’d be quicker to do it the other way–copy and paste what you did want to new documents instead of trying to clean up these long compilations by deleting what you don’t.









  • adarza@piefed.catoLinux@lemmy.mlEasiest distro for elderly parent
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    you’re on the right track, i think, but not bazzite–that carries a lot of extra stuff that isn’t necessary here. just ordinary fedora silverblue. clean up the app grid or put dash-to-dock on it and put the few launchers they need down on that. gnome is actually a good desktop for basic users that just need to run one or a few applications. updates are somewhat frequent but should be almost entirely automatic.

    i have a few users like your parents on endless os, which is similar to silverblue, just based on an in-house immutable debian instead of silverblue’s fedora base. i rarely ever hear from them, it ‘just works’. i also have it at home, it’s currently my only linux desktop there (i do most my ‘work’ at the office, home is just doom-scrolling and media for the most part these days). updates are less frequent but endless is switching to a gnome os base with the next major version. that will probably increase the frequency of updates a bit compared to their older debian base. that upgrade to v7 should be mostly invisible to the user, they’ve done a good job in the past with upgrades.


  • adarza@piefed.catomemes@lemmy.worldResistance is futile
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    it was my mom who ‘taught’ me how to skip ads on tv. we had one of the earliest betamax when i was a kid, she recorded everything she watched and always fast-forwarded through the commercials. that first vcr had dials for channel changing and could only do one scheduled recording… but it was used a lot