I have to have covers, absolutely hate my back being uncovered if nothing else. Some sort of blanket or sheet is essential to get to sleep.

I’ve just given this a quick try in Windows (sorry, didn’t want to infect Linux with MS stuff) and… it’s pretty good.

I might install it in Linux although I’ll probably still use nano.

The Zero 2W is cheaper and pretty much the same spec as the Pi 3.

Yes, you only know what you’ve experienced. If everything’s blurry, that’s normal.

I know when I got my glasses, the optician said to look across the road with my glasses on. There was a brick wall the other side and I could see it clearly. I was amazed and said as much. I don’t think my sight had always been bad but it must have been bad for long enough for that to be a revelation.

You should be able to use the Compose key on Linux for easy typing of accented characters. eg. Compose ’ e = é

I found this handy snippet to enable these keys in GTK 2 and 3 (not sure of the equivalent for GTK 4 but I guess that’s the one which has been updated anyway): https://forum.colemak.com/topic/1438-dreymars-big-bag-of-keyboard-tricks-linuxxkb-files-included/#p10012

Unfortunately I’ve found this whilst I’m not at the right computer so I haven’t been able to test them.

Edit: I tested this and it doesn’t appear to have helped.

Nope. Some people do care though. I’m more concerned with the interest rate as it makes a big difference to my mortgage.

MacOS should use CUPS - I believe Apple developed it or at least did some major work on it.

Yep, SANE is great.

As a non-free alternative, VueScan is pretty good too.

Muon.

Does SSH, SFTP and other stuff.

I am old.

This is great! The science teacher who used to also look after all the computers at my school was a big fan of the Acorn Archimedes/RISC PC (quite standard school computers in my day due to the BBC computer literacy stuff, where Acorn won the contract for the BBC Micro). We had a couple of PCs (RM Nimbus) which didn’t get as much use. I believe the plan was to switch over to PCs running Windows (95 had been out a couple of years) and because of that he left. I wonder if there was a viable alternative at that point, such as Linux, that he would have stayed.

There’s also Free95

Yellow Dog in early 2000s, and I think I switched to Debian PPC not long after. My memory of back then is quite hazy. A way while after that I had an Eee PC which I think I put Ubuntu on initially (the desktop was dog slow) and then changed over to LMDE. Have a feeling I had something else on it before Ubuntu… may have been the default Eee distribution, which I forget the name of (think it began with an X).

Had you been watching Wallace & Gromit?

I’m not sure I believe in past lives, but that sounds very much like the sort of thing which would be used as evidence for you remembering a past life.

I think you’ll find that’s the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.

My work laptop always complains that it can’t shut down the “Shutting down” app when it tries to shut down.

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You’ve sold me on Autumn. I was going to go for Spring.

Winter is next (cosy days indoors, potentially snow, and when it is sunny it’s lovely because it’s still cold)

Summer bottom of the heap. Can’t be doing with the heat.