Very admirable work, but I can’t help but feel like they are late to the game.

I work on those handhelds, and they’re all slowly dying. The onboard flash memory is starting to fail more often in older units, and even newer ones are prone to developing significant screen issues. Parts are mostly still available - but some, like the power boards, are getting harder to find.

It’s not as easy to swap the primary PCB as a Game Boy. And the chips are not off-the-shelf, so donor consoles are the only source of replacement chips.

This project looks fantastic, and I hope it succeeds. But the consoles themselves may be too old for this to have much impact.

Fair.

It does what I need, I’m satisfied with it, and I’m fine because it’s still an open source notepad and e-reader.

But if that’s a deal breaker for you, it’s totally valid.

I went with a Supernote.

It’s supposed to get Linux support at some point, and it has replaceable batteries. Plus, it works great as a e-ink notebook right now.

You could probably pull some info directly from Mint’s homepage.

Mint is generally considered one of the best options for former Windows users. And its homepage contains lots of info about what’s included and why.

I’m also a long time Synology user. Been using their NASes since around 2009.

Buy something else. You don’t want their current-gen hardware. As others have said, they’ve been removing features and hamstringing their own hardware. In a few years, when mine are no longer supported, I plan to buy or build something else.

Yeah, Black Flag’s seafaring was fun. It was enjoyable to guide your ship around, explore the random tiny unnamed islets, dive into the ocean and hear the crew laugh about the captain jumping overboard.

Yes, collecting every last thing was a grind. But it was a fun grind. It felt like I was choosing to do all that, even though the game was psychologically goading me into it.

(Insert philosophical discussion about free will related to a video game about genetic memory and following predicted behavior.)

Add to that how 3’s protagonist was so unlikable that Ubisoft made fun of themselves for it in AC: Rogue.

AC3 is the only AC game I never got to 100%. It just… wasn’t fun.

In every other AC game, even the parts that weren’t as enjoyable didn’t feel like such a grind.

Sadly, the only totally-safe way to use ANY computer - windows, mac, linux, anything - is to never connect it to a network in the first place.

Everything else is complicated.

I have one Brilliant Schemer and one Beautiful Idiot, and I wouldn’t trade either of them ♥️

If you don’t want to rely on Bluetooth, there are lots of keyboards, mice, and media remotes with dedicated dongles.

I use one of these, for example: https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B07ZKL66GY

*turmeric

One thing to keep in mind about the terminal:

In Linux, many GUI tools are simply pretty interfaces for the terminal. That’s why folks tell you that you’ll need the terminal occasionally, no matter what: you might need to type in commands that don’t already have a friendly GUI.

The terminal isn’t that scary, though! Every big distro has a support community. And if you need to do something in the terminal? Someone else has definitely needed to do the same thing, so you won’t need to figure it out on your own.

I mostly use Bazzite in front of a big TV. When I first set up the computer, I needed to use the terminal to configure a couple of things related to network shares. Later, I used it to help specific devices wake up the computer from sleep. It’s been months since then, and I’m not sure I’ve needed the terminal for anything else.

Use it as an opportunity to learn how your computer works. It’s really satisfying to understand how things happen.

Final Fantasy

Oh, everything.

Got a $20m yacht? Sell it. Oh, youcre forced to sell it for $50k because nobody will give you more? That’s just the free market, clearly it’s only worth $50k.

Paid $75m to build your house? Well someone is offering you $175k and you’d better take it.

And you own a company worth $100m? No you don’t, it was already taken from you and turned into a worker-owned co-op.

After all the sales and seizures, you’ve got $23.1m in cash, and just 1m more in the bank? OK, dude, we cool.

I’d give all the billionaires the same choice:

(a) Give away everything except, say, 25 million.

(b) Guillotine.

We have a right to know if you’re actually a bigot before we include you in our responses.

That’s how it works.

I laugh at the person who downvoted me.

The only reason someone would downvote me is if they are a bigot.

Everyone who bitches about “wokeness” is, in fact, a bigot.

Bigotry is always evil. Bigots should be shunned and deplatformed.

Check thrift shops.

I’ve seen plenty of Chromebooks and older Windows laptops for $10-25.

MX is my preferred distro to put on them, though there are plenty of good, small distros.

Does it have to be on the Play Store?

I recently started using the Fossify Music Player. It’s on F-Droid.