limelight79

It's in their DNA. They completely missed the internet boat when it first took off in the early 2000s and played catch-up for years thereafter. You would think they would have learned and not made the same mistakes again that you have in your list, but nope. Maybe they were too busy fighting Linux.

When I right click on a tab in Firefox, I can reopen it in a container. The containers (at first glance) seem to be limited to Personal, Work, Banking, Shopping, and Facebook (which is probably there because I have Facebook container installed). In settings I can modify the container tabs available. (And turn the feature on or off, but it's already on because of Facebook container.)

Is that what that is? It looks a lot like the example you linked. Firefox 123.0, but it's been there for quite a while.

Personally I'd write a script to do whatever it is you want to do, checking first whether the internet connection is working. Said script can check the internet is working, if not, sleep for 10 minute or something, and try again, perhaps giving up after a set number of tries. Said script could also check the date and time of the file downloaded and confirm it is out of date.

Then, have the script execute on bootup by adding it to the startup scripts.

Friends of ours were going through something similar - they finally have a viable pregnancy, but it took many tries and failures. Fortunately we live in a state that isn't controlled by religious nut jobs.

Oh I forgot about Mandrake. I did dabble with that a little bit back in the day.

I don't know if I'm a "hopper", because I haven't used that many. But I started with Slackware in the late 90s. I put Red Hat on a friend's computer (and was promptly unable to help with it) somewhere around 2001.

Around 2010 or so I switched my desktop and laptop from Slackware to Kubuntu. I was just tired of dealing with package dependencies. Maybe 6 or 8 years ago I switched my server from Slackware to Debian for similar reasons.

Right now my plan is to switch my desktop and laptop to Debian. I haven't yet because I want to reconfigure some disks on the server (need more space on /var and less on /home), then move a service that's currently running on my desktop to the server (Home Assistant), then install Debian on to my new nvme drive on the desktop and go from there. There's a whole upgrade path, basically. It has been a slow process because I have to do the space reconfiguration on the server itself - I can't log in remotely and do it - and the server is located in the basement, without a monitor or usable keyboard hooked to it... but there's also no deadline either, so no need to rush on it.

It would help the boot time but also loading software. But I agree a Core 2 Duo is pretty much cooked at this point.

I just replaced a Core 2 Quad in my server, which mostly is a file server and database, that sort of thing. It was doing fine until I started trying to do virtual machines on it (running Home Assistant), and that just killed it. But as a machine I'd be using directly? Nah.

My desktop machine was an i5 from about 2015 and was fine, but I recently upgraded the desktop and put the guts of that in the server.

Yeah, what's the endgame of invading? Make Mexico part of the US? Uh...aren't the racists going to have a problem with that?

Don't forget the Wall and no man's land between two countries where guards are authorized to shoot to kill!

"Competing", but not winning? Sounds like a loser to me!

Check out the town of Carova Beach, North Carolina. Accessible only by driving on the beach or by water.

There's A Facebook page dedicated to taking pictures of people getting stuck. Apparently all you have to do is air down your tires to like 12 psi and keep to a reasonable speed, but a lot of people think their car, truck, or SUV can handle sand without those precautions.