Thank you for the reply. I only know enough about dd to know I don't know enough to be doing anything with it, but I might try it anyway. 😀 I can clone the old to new drive using Macrium Reflect but not sure if that might impact the Linux install that follows... I assume not.
Anyway, thank you again for sharing so many details.
Being that this laptop is probably 15 years old, I'm doubt the USB slots are going to benefit much from those high speed drives. They are USB3 at least.
Software-suite wise, I suspect that won't be a problem long-term but I know we'll have to look closely at least a few of our more complex documents - such as resumes - to make sure they can be converted properly. My wife is a spreadsheet maniac too, though I expect most won't take special handling. Being able to boot back to Windows in a pinch will be beneficial though.
Mint was my thought since I'm using it on a couple home servers. I do however feel like I need to have a Windows boot option just in case she's not happy or we run into problems with app compatibility. And honestly, I'm not at all familiar with trying to run Windows apps on Linux. I've only used Linux in a server environment myself, never as a desktop. I'm also about to jump ship with my primary machine too, but that's a different story and I don't have to worry about her having trouble using it.
App-wise, I know my wife is going to want to use Microsoft Word and Excel, and we always use this laptop for our taxes, so TurboTax. I have a feeling running from a USB drive will be way too slow.
I've worked with a live environment USB drive a few times but found the drives to be too slow for substantial use. The laptop is an old Toshiba Satellite running Windows 10 with an old Intel 47xx and 12GB of memory. Works fine but obviously trying to leave Windows. App-wise, I know my wife is going to want to use Microsoft Word and Excel, and we always use this laptop for our taxes, so TurboTax. Disk-wise, I bought a new 1TB SSD to use for this and as it currently only has a 256GB drive, I'll have plenty of room for partitions.
Interesting strategy having Windows partitions at the beginning and end of the drive. Was that intentional to maybe make Windows not notice Linux? What boot manager are you using? The fact that you've went so long without issue certainly makes it sound like a good way to avoid Windows messing things up, but maybe your boot manager does a better job than others too.
The results of the survey are sad but I must say the phrasing is weird. "Least-favorite" doesn't necessarily mean "dislike". I'd have probably said "Columbus Day" or "MLK" is my least favorite since I don't get the day off and it's not something I personally celebrate. I do not however dislike MLK day... I've always been surprised and a bit saddened that it wasn't a holiday at my company. It seemed disrespectful to someone and something worthy of a holiday. They did get a little better and make Juneteenth a holiday at least, which surprised me.
Not sure how the survey was done so don't know if participants were forced to rank them all from most to least favorite or not. If so being least favorite doesn't mean dislike or necessarily have a negative connotation. However if the survey actually used the term "dislike" I wouldn't necessarily be surprised by the same results, sadly.
As a guy that's exactly 6' tall, when asked how tall I am I've had numerous women argue with me that I must actually be 6'2" or 6'3" because I'm definitely taller than so-and-so who's 6'. Lots of dudes lie about their height, and it's not a recent phenomenon... I remember when the internet didn't exist and it happened back then too. It's worse now however.
And if your apartment building was 5 buildings away, burned down and your children died due to their wreckless behavior, predictable outcome, wanton disregard for the lives of the innocent people all around and prevention of firefighters from responding to the scene, what would you call it? It was just an oopsie?
INAL but it actually meets the definition of 3rd degree murder is Pennsylvania I believe.
"In Pennsylvania, third-degree murder is a homicide committed with malice but without the specific intent to kill (first-degree murder) or during the commission of a felony (second-degree murder)."
When you're in just as much or more danger from the "good guys" as you are the "bad guys", and they have an equal disregard for the law, they're no longer the good guys.
Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure this is for me given the storage requirements. I was hoping for some magic math I guess that didn't require the extra magnitude of storage it seemed would be required, but alas no magic was found.
What is legal and what is moral aren't always the same. Exporting him is absolutely immoral.
43 years of his life lost due to a wrongful conviction and instead of trying assist him after he's suffered tragically due to the state's failure, the state is making him disappear. Those 43 years vastly overpaid any "debt" he had to society for his drug conviction. Have compassion for an old man that's suffered such unrecoverable loss.
This sounds really interesting and just what I was starting to look for.
What I'm not clear on and couldn't find info about is what's the storage size trade-off? Presumably you get these benefits by providing some of your storage to others, as they do for you. I'm trying to decide the size of disk I need to use and not clear how to estimate that. Also not clear how recovery is dealt with if my storage fails spectacularly. Can you restore from the "cloud" or do you still need to have your own full backups? The fact that links still work when you're offline makes it sound like cloud recovery is possible but didn't see anything about that.
Yep. Many will feel compelled to take a plea because they don't have the money to hire an attorney, and court-appointed attorneys are so over-loaded with cases they encourage the plea-route too.
Did something similar... turned the electric stove on high, waited until coil was glowing red and then touched it with my finger. I still remember how excited I was waiting for it to glow! 😄
That finger has no normal fingerprint now - the ridges and swirls are gone. Kids are dumb.
Whatever your thoughts about immigration, neither immigrants or their children deserve to live in fear of violence from a government, particularly one that claims all people have certain "unalienable rights".
You won't go low on vitamins if your carnivore diet incorporates organ meat. Most people don't want to do this however. Liver isn't terribly popular, kidneys and other organs even less so.
This is my lazy quesadilla trick. Nuke with cheese in the microwave until cheese melted, fold in half, put in toaster laying on side. Pops out crispy right onto my plate!
Not as good as when properly made, but quick, no skillet dirty and better than microwaved alone.
Toaster on side also a quick way to reheat slice of cold pizza!
Thing is once they stop the pounds come back unless they change their behavior. If all they do is take the shots, they're likely signing up for an expensive long-term roller-coaster of weight loss and gain and emotions.
Thank you for the reply. I only know enough about dd to know I don't know enough to be doing anything with it, but I might try it anyway. 😀 I can clone the old to new drive using Macrium Reflect but not sure if that might impact the Linux install that follows... I assume not.
Anyway, thank you again for sharing so many details.