Sounds like normal UK freeview terrestrial TV. I think there are freeview streaming sites and apps if you search.

Do you realise that cats consider themselves to be god? That’s their religion. Cats are the diety.

Jessica Jones season 1 was good in this regard. A problem and a villain that can’t easily be handled by just throwing punches.

The Watchmen is another good one that has less focus on just punching bad guys.

Completely agree that it is problematic that when your basic story is about super strong individuals, then the only story you will write is about problems that can be solved with violence. No one wants to watch a movie of the Hulk doing shifts to rotate a turbine to generate clean electricity.

Our tiny community squeaks into the void while normies continue to pick up pre releases and loot boxes like crazy.

I know. That’s why I’m saying it’s worth trying…for the improved UI.

Which distro should I use?

Them’s fightin words round here. Fuck [Distro 1] and its fanboys. [Distro 2] is clearly superior.

For real though:

Things for you to decide:

Which desktop environment do you want (KDE, Gnome, Cinnamon, cosmic, etc)

Do you want it to be super up to date all the time (quick updates, but may break something)? Or are you OK with slower updates for a more stable system?

Difficulty: How hard do you want things to be? Do you want things to be set up out-of-the-box and lots of solutions online? Or are you willing to dive deep, do stuff yourself and figure stuff out from wikis?

I wanted KDE (objectively the best desktop environment obviously) and started with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and loved it. Highly recommended. I didn’t know about TuxedoOS at the time and that seems like a good place to start too. Now I know more and am on CachyOS and am super happy with it.

Try Kwrite. I’ve liked it a lot more than Kate.

This is the correct answer. Very beginner friendly. Very capable of growing on from this. Great way to onboard beginners.

I started with a 2 bay Intel CPU Synology. Used it for a couple of years.used it to learn about Docker. When I started using too many Docker apps and Synology couldn’t keep up, then I got a mini PC for compute and kept the Synology as just a plain NAS.

People recommending manual options for any “make your own” solution is throwing someone way into the deep end. OP can do that if that’s what he’s up for. But my first recommendation to anyone would be to pick up a secondhand Synology and bookmark:

https://mariushosting.com/

Corporate needs you to find the differences between these pictures.

It’s taken me a long time to learn this.

Saying “OK” or “I hear you”, doesn’t mean you agree. You can hear someone’s words and leave it at that.

I rarely reply to anyone who has replied to my internet comment. I’ve had my say. They’ve had their say. If we disagree then there’s not much to gain from further posts.

Mostly I can agree with peoples premise. Sure your life is hard, I can agree with that. But I don’t have to agree with your next logical leap of “and it’s all because of the bloody immigrants”.

Mostly I can now hear pretty toxic things and think to myself “if I just continue my life as if that was never said, does it change anything”…the answer is pretty much always that it doesnt matter that someone said some shit. It can easily be ignored.

In fact I like hearing shit people have to say now. I’d rather hear what’s happening inside, instead of you pretending and filtering. Make your character clear. Say the appealing things you mean to. The words are ethereal and I can easily discard them. I appreciate knowing the real you.

There’s no direct replacement. The features I use are in Pear launcher so I use that. You have to look through launcher comparisons to find the features you need.

I’ve made a post about this and some people are giving recommendations. Check out comments here: https://europe.pub/post/4256799

For those coming looking for alternatives, this mega comparison chart is what I used to select an alternative launcher when I switched.

I would strongly recommend checking this site for the trackers in an app if you’re at all concerned about privacy. Links to each app’s exodus privacy report is also at the end of the table linked above.

It has been owned by a data mining company for a number of years.

There’s no direct replacement. The features I use are in Pear launcher so I use that. You have to look through launcher comparisons to find the features you need.

Also, I’m surprised purple are still using Nova. I thought most people abandoned it after it got sold.

Also, my advice would be to not take advice from people like this online. Find role models in real life who you admire and can look up to and ask them about this stuff. Adults don’t have everything figured out as much as you think. The comment above is a perfect example, where an adult seems to be preoccupied with one specific issue that they possibly struggled with…and that likely doesn’t apply to you at all.

Find people in your life who are good, who are doing good and who are being good. Talk to these people. Look for mentors in real life.

As a general rule: nothing you read online should be taken seriously. It is too difficult to filter what is important and true, from what is not.

I would say this is not something you need to worry about. I would ignore this advice. It doesn’t apply to the vast majority of people and is not something a 14 year old should worry about.

“Let’s pretend to be normal people”.

“I came too quickly”.

“I can never come”.

I’m really happy that this is not relevant to me.

… because I don’t use Windows. I wish it was also because I managed to get rid of WhatsApp from my life.

Welcome to Linux. Glad to see you’re not letting the hurdles get in your way and are working through solutions. There’s more to come.

You say “5 year old laptop” as if that’s ancient 😄. I don’t even look at laptops newer than 5 years. Don’t need much more for internet tasks and office work.

I’ve just finished setting up exactpy what you describe (Synology NAS and Debian mini PC server) and it is working so well. Why do you need a more powerful NAS? If you use it for just storage you won’t really be falling short of NAS compute power.

I considered adding the drives directly to the mini PC as well, but I’m happy I’ve kept the Synology for the best of both worlds. Synology makes it so much easier to share the storage, set up reverse proxy, provide constant 2 way sync with my online cloud WebDAV service, etc.