my sister ‘unthaws’ something by taking it out of the freezer.

linux mint’s “installers” can boot into a live environment.

and even when you do know what you’re doing, you’re probably choosing not to host your own. at least not one that faces the public. a private mail ‘server’ that consolidates mail for you from multiple providers (and sends mail back out the same way) is different.

i have an old wood desk at the office. it just resonates and amplifies noise when i set a desktop form factor external hdd (with its attached rubber feet) on it. it now sits on a couple old-school foam rubber mouse mats.

don’t expect a 19 year old laptop to perform all the tricks something more ‘modern’ can do, such as transcoding video for a streaming media server. also note that a t5600 is not a ulv chip (draws as much as 34w under load, on its own)–so probably not a candidate to run ‘lid down’ without some outside help for cooling.

it’s not fast, it’s not power efficient, it has slow networking (10/100 and 22-year old ‘g’ wifi), and lacks usb3 for ‘tolerable’ speed on extra external storage space—but it will be ‘ok enough’ for learning on.

if you go with something like yunohost or even dietpi, you will pretty much restrict yourself to what it can run and do and how it does it. if you want more ‘control’ or to install things they don’t offer themselves, you’ll need to ‘roll your own’. a base (console only) debian would be a great place to start. popular, stable, and tons of online resources and tutorials.

i use dietpi, which is built upon a minimal debian.

absolutely.

the ‘jell-o shot’ of appetizers.

win10-11. major oem prebuilt and cto should have it installed, otherwise it’s here:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pg2dk419drg
should be ‘free’ afaik.

for win<10, get WebpCodecSetup.exe from the webm/webp project download archives: https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/index.html

and with very few exceptions i’ve run across, it’s also (intentionally or not) configured to produce shit-tier quality output by pretty much everyone implementing it at any sort of scale.

afaik the major pc laptop vendors, dell, lenovo, hp, ms surface… all have at least some models now with glass or haptic trackpad.

iirc, they have their own meat processing facilities. part of that production is used to make the hot dogs (since ~ 2011) for their long-running $1.50 combo with a soft drink.

it is a popular ‘free’ offering on most streaming devices and televisions (pihole works), plus the web site (dlp works on some). a lot of what they have is junk or on pretty much every other free service, but there’s always something to watch or rewatch on it.

except there’s no ‘safe word’ when you’re dealing with the anal carnage from verizon.

i used to fly a lot back in the 90s. rarely had to wait for bags, even when taking the cattle car (old swa).

you definitely encountered similar performance in windows. the processor isn’t speedy, by any stretch. kaby lake u-series i3 is slower than a desktop 4th gen i3.

looks more like an older brother to dick solomon to me.

easily in my top-10 most re-watched movies.

“mid evil” is just a minor villain in a movie.

i tried them for awhile years ago, but determined fairly quickly that one is enough for me.

one of my first configurations on a new installs (ones with a DE) is setting number-of-desktops to ‘1’ and hiding the default switcher on the panel. even with a ui designed around multiple desktops (like the gnome implementation on my endless desktop at home) i just use one.

maga nuts and the rest of the ‘far right’. truth and an informed populace are their enemy.