By selling papers?

Worked for centuries.

Update: discounts still haven’t started today.

Fully stocked aisle plus two full rollcomps in the back.

You asked how much it would cost to use. The existence of these smaller services proves that the answer can be as low as free, if someone wants a thing to exist and is willing to cover the cost of hosting it (which can be as low as buying a Raspberry Pi, assuming you already have internet).

That issue has been fixed. The dev has learned from their mistake and taken steps to ensure it doesn’t happen again. It’s fine now.

We don’t have to talk in hypotheticals. Mastodon is free. Signal is free. Linux is free. The cost is zero. Yes they all get money from donations and from commercial contracts, but it’s absolutely possible to run services like these without squeezing every last pfennig out of every user.

I use SmartTube on my TV. It has a better TV UI imho.

I recommend Tubular. It has all the features of NewPipe plus quality of life improvements such as SponsorBlock.

Kubuntu should run just fine. You could go for a low-spec distro such as Xubuntu but I think you’ll find it surprisingly capable.

You could also look into Puppy Linux which is specifically targeted at older machines but with a machine like that you should be absolutely fine.

Of course the best part is it’s free and there’s no commitment, just install one, see if you vibe with it, and if not try another :)

Documents from bygone eras talk about a concept called “hope”. Sadly, knowledge of what that concept actually represented has been long lost to the mists of time.

The answer doesn’t change just because you reposted the same damn question.

The first rule of roast comedy is you never ever ever punch down. That’s why we make jokes about the French.

Come to England, we complain all the damn time

Came here to post this too :)

Use 7zip, not zip. You can encrypt the filenames too that way. Even Windows natively supports 7zip these days.

Regarding the password, if you need to be more certain (and don’t want to get into public key cryptography), you could send the password through snail mail in a tamper-evident envelope.

No. This is abuse. If I were in your situation I’d get away from him and cut off contact.

Yeah it’s a bit silly really. It’s Monday, we’ve got a fully stocked aisle and who knows how many rollcomps in the back (I’ll find out on Wednesday) and we’re still charging full whack. The tradition of cheap eggs on Monday seems to be long gone.

RPGs from that era were really good too. They had to do more with less, which meant some ludicrously good games. I remember being blown away by .hack//IMOQ, a full simulated MMORPG with thousands of procedurally-generated dungeons, complete with players you could trade and party with… it even captured the insane levels of grindiness of MMOs of the era (which can be tamed by modern cheat tools if you prefer).

I never did finish it.

I should finish it. :)

My usual response to this kind of bureaucracy is to go to a local print shop, have it printed, then put it in a box and mail it in.

I might have to try the fax option next time.

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Or in the time it takes to figure out how to do that, you could’ve grabbed a stock photo of the moon, grabbed a stock photo of a USAian dollar store, shoved 'em both in Inkscape, drawn a quick polygon, applied it as a mask, and exported it as a png.

'cos that’s what I did.