not seen the first one

In order from thumb to little finger on my right hand:

• potable room temperature water (always have fresh clean water to drink!)
• potable boiling water (no more waiting or using energy for kettles and so on)
• coca cola from a room temperature can (my favourite beverage and way to drink it, on the middle finger because it's sticking a middle finger up to the coca cola corporation by getting it for free)
• helium (gases are fluids too! help solve any helium shortages and also gain access to a cool party trick [squeaky voice on demand] ring finger because I don't see myself using this one all that often and that's the most uncomfortable one to use)
• acrylic paint thinning medium (sounds like a good idea but I've only ever used water, would like to experiment with it but it's expensive and I could just get new colours for the money)

install took a little while but was very painless. mint now installed and yeah this little machine can actually cope with web browsing and playing a youtube or iplayer video now which is really all I wanted it to do so thank you!

I shall probably be joining the linux cult at some point because I've had nothing but unpleasant experiences trying to get windows 10 to do what I want it to, and mint's very first thing being a popup saying "hey come and mess about with the settings til you have them how you like them" was sort of the nail in the coffin. I doubt I'll be migrating until I have to but when windows 10 stops working I am sure as heck not going to move to another windows unless microsoft bucks their ideas up bigtime!

oh good news is that I have had this machine open before and I know exactly where the ribbon cable is - it's the fact it's not properly connecting that makes it broken in the first place, so best case scenario it's already disconnected (and worst case is that I just need to take out the very easily accessible cable!)

thank you once more :)

it is a very generic piece of garbage by Thomson which is a company I did not know made computers before I got it, and the model number is UK-NEO10A-2BK32. It has an Intel Atom x5-Z8350 (1.44GHz) and a whopping 2GB of RAM. I can't imagine it has anything but integrated graphics.

Has a micro SD slot if that is in some way more useful than installing via USB.

Thank you much! I shall look at Pop! and any future recommendations and see if they can mount the main hurdle of a busted display.

l'ésprit de la douche

I've always thought puerto rico was a bad game so I feel validated

I used to think chiptunes were invented by a guy named chip. whose line is it anyway taught me that's the sort of thing americans are called, and I figured that they came from america.

1. yes I have the 64gb one that they don't do anymore and I really like it, specifically it's great for playing computer games from my childhood while in bed and one thing that all the other handheld gaming PCs lack are the touchpads. Mouse controls work really well and my most played games on the steam deck pretty much all use the touchpad mouse functionality. Emulates the gamecube too which is the most anyone should ever need.

2. not allowed a gun on account of united kingdom

3. yeah I have an HP laser printer and laser printing is very good but I'd not get HP they're a bit scummy. Big up front cost for toner but I've had mine for 5 years and only had to replace the starting toner pack, not gone through a whole regular pack at all and I do print fairly often.

4. nop

5. just a regular electric kettle but it's good, I drink tea every day, also on account of united kingdom

6-8. nop

9. When I was in university I decided to become the sort of person who always writes with a mechanical pencil and proceeded to take a few years' worth of notes entirely in mechanical pencil. I have a nice steel Parker one and it is really fun to write with.

10. Yeah I have a flashforge which I wouldn't necessarily recommend as the brand. Bambu are supposed to be the super great ones. I've been wrestling with mine for the past year or so but finally got it fixed properly. When they work they're amazing fun. What I say to everyone considering one though is that they are not an appliance, they are a new hobby. You will spend a lot of time troubleshooting and tinkering no matter how many automatic features your model promises. Super rewarding when you design something and get it to work properly though.

11-14. nop

15. JUST POST!!!!!!

I am a qualified teacher (<- this bit is true) so I can say definitively yes it does work (<- truth value undetermined)

in my world hoppet you exist only as a delight!!

I should try some of the older wizardries some time. 8 is one of my absolute favourite games of all time but I've never played any from before that!

maybe I will get round to it by next year, which of course is 1996

which is to say yes I saw and acknowledged your joke by referencing it in an obtuse way

one of the various new years resolution strips that Ozy & Millie ran was a guest strip that I've been unable to find again for the past few years but it was a similar joke and I want to post it every year but I end up settling for a different one, such as this one, the very first!

same as every year, [ozy & millie reference]

I shut down every night, although windows 10 being the piece of garbage that it is, sometimes it decides that I meant to restart and I have to get up when I notice that I can still hear the fans going.

this was much more fun than I expected it to be, not sure why I didn't think I'd enjoy it because this sort of thing is my youtube bread and butter, thanks for the devtesla seal of approval cos I don't think I'd have watched it without a trusted recommendation!

yeah it probably was illegal!

working in life insurance radicalised more than I already was about insurance, many people who had it didn't really know what it covered, and many so-called "financial advisors" who sold them the policies would straight up lie

if dog honey is my only legacy I will be satisfied

unknown whether plato ate mostly off plates or preferred bowls instead

the only thing I can think of with ghibli dubs is my friend carl

EDIT: my friend joe toro

double edit it's my neighbour carl/joe toro I'm a fool

for me personally I have had some exceedingly shite years and a couple of big revelations so far this decade so who even knows on balance!