My mom visited me once and asked me why I didn't set the time on the stove, since, you know, it's a clock. "Mom, I have never once gone 'oh man what time is it? I better check the stove.' Especially after I had a smartphone on me all the time"
Honestly, given that Mint is a Debian distro (before anyone yells at me, its an Ubuntu distro that itself is a Debian distro) it will work better out of the box on less up to date hardware. Debian prioritizes stability so it's repos and drivers are months to years old. Older hardware will have stable working drivers meanwhile new hardware may have to work with experimental or generic drivers.
To some people, like half the comments and myself included, think the idea is that it's cool. The playdate doesn't solve any problems, it adds a gimmick to an existing format and its cool.
This happened in other cities and they didn't panic, only Boston. Hell the article even states one police department wasn't going to do anything about their mooninite litebrights since they couldn't identify a crime
I've been recommending it as the beginner's distro for years. Default DE is very windows familiar, install is easy, out of box experience is great, built on Debian so it's stable as fuck. There's nothing really wrong with it unless you need newer drivers or something
Depending on the situation there may be even older hardware/windows in use.
At my last job there was a windows 2000 computer still in use until like 2 years ago. None of the motherboard connections were still being made anymore. None of the drivers for the specialized devices existed for anything newer. The computer was air gapped and a replacement machine was commissioned, but it was still there doing its thing until the HDD failed.
Hey, don't be mean to 3DTV. At least there's an actual use case for it. Watching 3D TV or movies, which aren't actually that popular... Hmmm, I see your point but also counter with the 3D TVs are at least also regular TVs
I am anti generative AI. I am agressively anti generative AI. Years ago I saw someone make an AI to tell if a mole was cancerous or not (the modelin question was flawed because it learned if there is a ruler in the photo there was cancer but that's not the point). An image model trained exclusively to detect cancer moles vs safe moles is a useful first tool that you could just use your phone for before going in for a real test.
For the unaware, that guy is based off of several real people. Most famously Hiroo Onoda