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I think it works here between my MX Linux and a Dell 4K display, via HDMI

[    12.255] (**) AMDGPU(0): Option "DRI" "3"
[    12.255] (**) AMDGPU(0): Option "TearFree" "true"
[    12.255] (**) AMDGPU(0): Option "VariableRefresh" "true"
[    12.413] (**) AMDGPU(0): TearFree property default: on
[    12.413] (**) AMDGPU(0): VariableRefresh: enabled

I’m like you, started Linux with v0.99, downloading on floppies at university, installing on 486, installing X11, drivers, etc. It was fun at the beginning, I was young, had time, I was a “LFS” guy, always recompiling everything and all, and it was time consuming, and boring, and slow at the time!!! Then I basically use Debian (Ubuntu, Mint, now MX for 6 years at least) for 20 years… it works, I’m ok with it.

Yes I tried Arch, the low level install, it reminded me of my LFS time, but now I’m an old coot and I don’t have time for this shit 😆

Imagine in Canada, where real news media like TV, newspaper, etc, cannot be used by Meta (FB, IG, etc). So in a Canadian facebook feed, you only have conspiracy and right-wing false info, that’s it. For the people who took their info from FB, they are flooded by fake/alarming news.

true, a simple:

sudo nala install

I also need some old app working only in Windows, I spent hours on wine trying to make them work, but no. So in the end, I installed Linux only, then set up a simple QEMU of WinXP SP3 image, just to install those programs (they need serial ports, and I can redirect the ttyUSB0 to QEMU as a COM1) and that’s it, no more *real windows.

Can you check your server log to see if the browser really request /favicon.ico ?

I cannot believe I used xbiff in the 80s to know when I had a new email, and in 2024 the most well known and old thunderbird does not…

At least if you want to play with it in XP, install mypal browser https://www.mypal-browser.org/ I have had success with it on a XP machine, it loads facebook, reddit, lemmy.world, etc.

For an old distro, have you tried AntiX 32 bits?

In Canada it’s tap to pay for ~8 years now, never saw a QR code to pay. However when I go in USA, every stores is tap to pay, except one, there’s one store in USA where there is no tap, it’s Walmart, inconcevable.

BeOS was so cool end 90s early 2000 !!!

80s/90s was the good old time, no web, only irc, gopher, usenet, things like this

It comes also with a doctor, you can invoke it with “M-x doctor”. I discovered Emacs in the 80s, used it a lot in uni in the 90s, Emacs is a religion, or an OS, it’s so powerful it’s incredible. Nowadays I’m mostly using code for coding, or simply nano for small scripts/text.

I’d try AntiX with iceWM, but you could try MX with Xfce too. I guess your old PC is 32bits, both distro support it. I installed MX 32 bits on a old atom 32 bits, it works fine

yup, my ll alias is like this for yyyeeaaarrrrsssss because of this

alias ll='LC_COLLATE=C ls -alFh'

Buy another 8 or 4TB, format it as ext4, copy everything from the ntfs HD to ext4 HD, swap drive, that’s it. Keep the old HD to do some backup, put it in a usb3 encolusre.

I fixed all this by switching to MX Linux, no more ppa, no snap/flatpak, just good old .deb from repo.

I’d use HEVC/H265 anyway, always, the best quality for its size. And AAC for audio

agree, and it compresses automatically, can be useful for some backup

I have bought hundreds of stuff on AE, it’s ok, especially for stuff that are less than $10 that local sellers sell for like $40 for the exact same thing. I got some items in less than a week in Caanda.

I used ext4 for yeeeeaaaarrssss but now I’m using LUKS+btrfs, stable, encrypted.