Try a used Dell Precision series from the past 6 years. That should be roughly in that price point and will probably be an old business cast off with either decent integrated graphics or a real graphics card depending on how patient you are about waiting for a good deal. They are solidly made with aluminum cases and made to take a beating. I have a Precision I bought used from 2012 that’s still going, and just got another from 2020 for about $230 usd with shipping. Mind you this is a US perspective and I don’t know much about international markets.

Geneva Convenience is basically synonymous with constantly attacking anyone even mildly progressive. Essentially they are so far on the other end of the horseshoe they’re doing the same work as the far right.

Do you know what is prompting the “attacks”? Is grandma doing something that scares her or that she thinks is aggressive? If grandma is going in for a kiss and kiddo doesn’t feel comfortable or safe with that she might lash out. Scratching her is unacceptable but I wonder if she thinks it’s defensive. You probably can tell the difference between clumsiness and aggression at that age and if it’s purposeful then I would talk to grandma about watching for nonverbal cues of nonconsent.

As far as the scratching, every kid is different, but what worked for our kid was showing that his actions hurt and upset us. At that age, rather than disciplining or doing a time out when he hit me, I tried to show the effect his behavior had on me in his own language. When he hit me, I would do my best impression of what he would do when he was hurt. So basically, I pretended to cry, and if that didn’t take I would shy away and avoid his hands. It shocked him to realize he could make the big person sad and upset and he didn’t want me to be sad, which led to genuine apologies. I would stop when he did something conciliatory, like say “sorry” in sign language, offer me an object or try to hug or pat me. As he gets older I adapt to his level of sophistication, so now I do things differently, but when he was one to two it seemed to help him conceptualize that we were also humans with feelings.

I want to like my jellyfin server but it has a bad habit of using 100% of my CPU while idling, and I still haven’t figured out a fix yet

Ok so you do mean to offend people then. Have fun with that, I’ll just be over here enjoying things on their own merits despite your whole thing going on over there.

This is a very narrow and limited way of seeing music. Music can be created for a purpose and a setting but once it’s out there it has no boundaries beyond what you impose upon it. Somewhere Over the Rainbow was written for the Wizard of Oz but it’s not like the only way to enjoy it is in a movie theatre. Certainly, music can be more or less appropriate for certain activities and moods, listening to EDM to fall asleep might be self defeating. However, music made for games can evoke all sorts of mental states and people are free to find appropriate settings and uses outside of them to enjoy it.

Was the last time you listened to game music when it was all chip and midi? There’s some beautiful and moving music in games.

Caesar III has the honor of being the oldest game in my “games I get a hankering to pick up and play all day once and a while” list. Only city builder I’ve ever played where getting the top tier housing is the real win condition

I inherited a set and I agree, they’re perfectly decent knives that hold a good edge, but the handle takes getting used to. I use their paring knives and bone knife but use my second hand Spanish steel Henkels for mostly everything else, because I can practice home sharpening and make them look as ugly as I want without guilt. The biggest difference I noticed is that the simple wood handles offer way more options for holding the knife in different ways comfortably. There’s clearly a “correct” intended hold with the Cutco. They also feel heavy, which can sometimes be limiting.

Even though I enjoy using mine I still wouldn’t recommend them, just based on how inexpensive a nice second hand set from other brands can be on the used market.

Incredible movie, and the 4k version just became available in the past year. One of my top 5 favorite movies.

Not sure if you’ve tried installing things outside of Lutris or Steam, but just for reference here are the instructions for creating a launcher for a program that’s not part of a software manager:

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/desktop-create-launchers

My response was to a post saying they 100% recommended Linux to grandparents, and that “everything worked fast and flawless”. I think setting unrealistic expectations like that only discourages adoption when someone inevitably runs into points of friction. I’m not attempting to vilify or idolize any OS, I just think it’s important to stay grounded and not oversell things.

All of the things I listed are examples from my personal experience that I ran into within the past 6 months. The sharing folder adventure happened just about two weeks ago. Don’t try to tell me that it’s all so easy now, I literally just went through hours of research and experimenting and samba settings and changing my disk’s fstab file just to get a folder to show up on my home network. “Oh well you should have done x or y or not used z” Well, frankly it doesn’t matter what the optimal workflow solution would be, what matters is this was my user experience. This was something I went through and was not some whacky fringe use case. Sharing a folder on a home network is not black magic or calling upon arcane demonic powers.

Now, I’m not going back at this point and I’m committed to Linux now, but pretending it’s all smooth sailing and so easy and polished is misleading. It’s certainly more usable than it ever has been but I think most people on Lemmy have no idea how hands off the average person is from their tech. It’s important to be honest about Linux’s shortcomings and prepare new users that they will probably gave to look up info or documentation for some tasks. You also can’t expect the average person to ever open Terminal without hyperventilating.

It’s fast and easy and no big deal until you want to do something radical like create a shortcut and pin it to your taskbar, or share a folder on a home network. Or share your screen with a TV… there have been too many damn times where I’ve wanted to do something that should be simple and the matter of a couple clicks but it sends me down a rabbit hole chasing dependencies and searching terminal commands and spending hours doing something that takes less than a minute on mainstream operating systems. My user experience has drastically improved since I swapped to Plasma but don’t pretend everything works perfectly and intuitively immediately for everyone unless the expected use case is literally turning it on and opening a browser.

I enjoy a pot of spiced black tea, usually a chai blend with cinnamon, ginger and cloves. Sometimes I will add cocoa powder and pour the tea over that with sugar and milk to make a chai tea/hot cocoa drink that is a highlight of my day.

The link is from a Russian aligned misinfo website, so take this article with a grain of salt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MintPress_News

I just installed Debian with Plasma, and have been using a system with Mint and Plasma as my daily driver for a few months now. I used the default Cinnamon for about a year. Plasma is definitely way more polished and allows almost everything to be done via menus which is NOT a given with most Linux things. It does work most of the time but expect to run into some basic task you didn’t even think about on Windows and having a frustrating experience chasing solutions to untangle how to do it.

I’m never going back to Windows but the amount of times I’ve had to do something convoluted to attempt something you’d think would be easy is too damn high.

What you describe doesn’t reflect reality in my region of the world or amongst any of the people I know. Not sure where you are but you’re making a lot of generalized statements that should be a hell of a lot more specific. Do you live in Amish country maybe?

There are some lower sugar sodas, or hybrid sodas that use fruit juice along with Stevia or monkfruit in order to cut the weird taste. Olipop is my favorite, and Spindrift has some good flavors.

Hobbies, I can’t get enough of them, gotta collect 'em all. Every couple months it’s a new fixation.