caseyweederman

In dog
years

Don’t tell Oracle

The older I get, the more I relate to yelling at clouds.
Smart Home technology is going to remain in its infancy because nobody is trying to improve it.
They know they don’t make money off of selling light bulbs that just work. They make money off of holding your eyesight hostage until you sign all your personal data over to their datacenters.

Which is on Earth. Which is in Canada.

It looks like one of you is treating the other as a person deserving of respectful conversation.

That is to say, Linux Mint Debian Edition.
Regular Mint is still based on Ubuntu.

the jangling keys

So historically not manjaro.

I think you’re treating this like a pit fight.

Debian.

There are some very convincing Windows themes. Gnome, too. There are a couple to make it look exactly like the IRIX theme, or CDE.
Personally, I think the default layout is plenty simple. You press the applications icon, you press on the thing you want, that thing opens.
If you can take twenty seconds to set it up for them, run everything they’ll ever want to run, right-click on it in the task bar, click Pin to Task Manager.
Then all they’ll ever need to do is poke the one they want to run and it runs.
KDE also has a Mobile DE called Plasma Mobile. Looks like it can be installed on desktops and laptops too.

I’d say KDE Plasma 6 with one of the one-button global theme modifications can do everything you’re promising, while resulting in a simpler and more familiar layout.
More options help everyone, whether they use them or not.

Happened to me in the 90s. Private Christian school in a big city.

The prostate massage. Might as well have a good time on my way out.

usrmerge would like a word

Yeah if all it takes to keep me alive is a prostate massage, I’m taking that option.

To your point, vibes are how sound works

What about The Mountain Goats?

If you were lucky, you’d get the lion’s share

Or synchronicity

It was used more broadly than for embalming, that’s just what we know it as now, since the other uses got pushed out in the years since.
It’s still a pretty silly idea that some out-of-touch old dude brought a high-end febreeze to a baby.