It was Fedora. Most of the recommendations for beginners at the time were for Ubuntu or derivatives and I was being contrary just because I could.

The title screen music from Katamari Damacy.

I think there were at least five books. There was also a cartoon that aired around ten years ago.

A series of novels for kids about a vampire rabbit. Instead of drinking blood he drains vegetables. It’s told from the perspective of the other pets in the house. I read several of them like 20 years ago, so I don’t remember much more.

Primus has the four Fisherman’s Chronicles songs.

1. John the Fisherman
2. Fish On
3. The Ol’ Diamondback Sturgeon
4. Last Salmon Man

Another thing that might count as an example is that Wings’ Band on the Run and Helen Wheels both mention a character named Sailor Sam.

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You would just install one of the KDE meta-packages. After that you can select the new desktop environment when you login again.

The only thing to note is that some settings don’t always play nice between the two (for example one might overwrite settings on the other), so maybe consider making a new user account just to see if you like it.

What desktop environment are you using? KDE let’s users do this pretty easily by just going into the color scheme settings. I’m not sure what the process is for other desktops these days.

Is it 32-bit? If it is, then that also severely limits your options. Personally, I just throw Debian or one of its derivatives on old hardware like that. You may want to consider Q4OS. It’s Debian based and is geared specifically towards old and low-end hardware. Interestingly, it’s also one of only a couple distros that ship with Trinity as a desktop environment.

Retro gaming is definitely doable with 2GB of RAM, considering that older Raspberry Pi boards can do it with just 1GB. In that case you could try Batocera.

Some other ideas include running something like Nextcloud or a media server on it on your home network. In that case, I’d again recommend Debian.

House (1977)

My understanding is that it’s related to the decline of three and four engine planes. Originally airlines preferred them over two engined planes because they were safer, had greater range, and could carry more passengers. On the other hand, they were more expensive to operate due to requiring more maintenance and fuel. Additionally, these planes were larger and couldn’t get into places that smaller twinjets could. Eventually technology improved to the point that the (literal) costs of more engines began to outweigh the benefits to airlines. These days most passenger airlines only operate twinjets and the remaining tri- and quadjets are relegated to cargo.

The panel is handled by the plasma theme. I’m not sure what’s the cause of your issues. Normally transparent themes work out of the box on KDE. I’d do some testing on one of my spare computers to try and figure it out, but I’m busy the next couple days.

It’s possible the global theme you installed didn’t pull the plasma theme with it. Did you try installing just a plasma theme? Additionally, did you install the theme manually (by placing the files in the correct directory under /.local/share) or automatically (through Get New Themes or Discover)?

I believe that’s the Grindr logo.

Not a parent, but definitely accurate. My sister is 8 years younger than me and she was an absolute terror at that age. One time she got into the bucket of craft supplies and stole a bottle of paint. It was on her toys, the television, the PlayStation, the cats, and unsurprisingly herself. Nearly everyday she’d break in my room while I was at school and just cause as much mayhem in there as possible. I had a box of over 800 Neopets trading cards that I had carefully organized and she dumped them on the floor. Another time she stole my Game Boy Color and slammed it against a wall because she couldn’t get it to work (it didn’t have batteries in it at the time). Unfortunately, it didn’t survive that.

Typing with a controller really isn’t that bad. That’s more like a purgatory thing. Hell would be having to use a television remote.

I have a huge physical media collection. I don’t feel like I actually own something unless I can touch it. The only time I buy digital is when something isn’t available any other way. I think in my case it’s an autism thing rather than an ADHD thing since I’m both.

I don’t have any specific words or anything, but I do have some general tips that might be useful.

You can exclude words from search results by placing a - at the beginning of the word you don’t want. For example if you want real hedgehogs and not Sonic the Hedgehog:

hedgehog -sonic

Another tip is you can put quotation marks around a phrase to search for content with that exact set of words. This can be useful when searching for something like a band with a name that just isn’t search friendly.

“the band”

There’s a great browser add-on called uBlacklist that can block specific sites from from search results. One particularly useful feature is subscriptions, which allows users to share public lists that update automatically.

I think you can do that with AntiMicroX.

This is just a thought, but something like having a specific day of the week for non-Gundam models might be a good solution.

Though, I definitely think scale models should be in their own dedicated community.

Based on their feature lists, the VMUPro looks like it supports almost everything the VM2 does and then some. Notably the VMUPro has a color screen and can emulate NES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Master System, and Game Gear with the potential for additional systems via firmware updates. One thing the VM2 has that the VMUPro doesn’t is that it has some internal memory, meaning it can be used without an SD card.

We’ll probably see someone make an actual comparison video around October when the VMUPro releases.