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Wo du gerade hier bist., Chef, ich hatte dich, sowie den Softwareverantwortlichen vor zwei Wochen mal angefaxt, weil unser letzter Windows XP Rechner inzwischen abgeschmiert ist und unsere Software auf leider keiner aktuelleren Version läuft. Gibt’s da inzwischen was neues? Achso, und wir brauchen für den Fernkopierer neues Thermopapier. Unser Lager ist inzwischen alle und der Hersteller seit 1970 Bankrott.

It must be some sort of hobby. Especially with the Elitebook series.

The G1 had a bad charging curve and tended to produce spicy pillows. HP fixed it with a firmware update, and since the G2 had mostly the same design, they were fine.

Then the G3 came out, again with an incorrect charging curve. HP fixed the problem. The G4 were fine.

G5? Bad charging curve… wanna guess if the G6 was affected?

I add oil, just enough to barely coat the pan, and then tap a teeny drop of tap water from my finger onto the pan. Once the drop pops (if it got touched by the oil) or simply boils away, I can start cooking.

Additionally: butter. Butter somehow doesn’t stick for whatever reason, even if the pan isn’t fully heated up yet.

Coffee is a matter of taste. So no one should tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Maybe it’s just a preference.

But “immediatly” is… pretty fast. I wonder if your grind is very fine or if you have very dark beans. I don’t like coffee, so I brew mine pretty cool and for 2 minutes max so I get a very cocoy drink.

If you feel like it, you may want to try different grinds and recipes. Personally I feel like it’s worth it.

My guess is that if most things “just work”, Linux may be fine. I mean, there’s a whole second laptop available and I’m reachable most of the time. I just don’t want to play support all the time.

I’m also not that worried about locking things down. The parents can’t even lock down Windows properly and have resorted to restricting internet time via a router setting. It’s MAC based, and I think if the kid figures out how to change MAC addresses, they deserve a little extra Roblox time until the parents notice.

At the moment I think I’ll sit down with them and we’ll set this thing up together. That way I can teach them a bit about the differences and show them cool things like ad blocking or Steam and see how they do by themselves … and then make my (hopefully final) decision.

I would just like to say that I really appreciate everyone’s contributions so far; even the little off-topic discussions.

But you are completely misjudging the situation. When I spoke of “first assumption”, said they "know their way around Windows" and stated they found ways around prior parental locks, I was actually referring to the fact that “my kid” hasn’t even been born yet. We’ve just slipped two iPads in, one with a YouTube-Kids Elsa Gate loop and the other constantly doom scrolling TikTok and Twitter.

I’m definitely not talking about someone who is a several years older than I was, when I got my first internet connected PC.

Sarcasm aside; they are more than old enough, according to their actual parents. They had a phone for quite some time; same for a Windows notebook. I just happen to have a better notebook laying around, but feel like Windows is sort of shit, and I need a little help with judging if Linux is the right call.

Just want to add to the difference in experience:

I leaned Linux, because I wanted to learn Linux and as such I was fine with stumbling a bit from time to time. They want a working computer that does Roblox and homework and don’t care much about the rest.

I daily drive Silverblue (and the terminal is not useless >:c), and in a vacuum I would probably install Silverblue or another atomic desktop. But I worry about Windows compatibility.

Imagine the feeling when “you just click the .exe and everything installs itself” works for everyone but you. It doesn’t matter that downloading executables from random websites is way worse than a proper package manager in pretty much every way.

It’s still alienating. Going along with everyones technical dept may still be a nicer experience, because at least it doesn’t require the effort of doing something different.

That’s what I’m worried about.

It puts the update on its skin.

Is the image edited? 75% sRGB coverage on an IPS panel? That’s terrible. I’ve never seen IPS panels that cover so little sRGB colorspace. Almost all of them will easily achieve the same amount of Adobe RGB per default.

75% is horrendous. You’ll definitely notice that.

Depending on your setup, budget and location, Nubert makes some nice speakers. I’m pretty happy with my A-125 and a XW-900.

They also make a soundbar (AS-225) that uses the same drivers but reaches low enough to eliminate the need for a subwoofer.