I feel like you’d probably enjoy wandering through the halfbakery…

No. I checked it out twice, looked around, and noped out. Haven’t been back since.

I don’t care what it’s called as long as it’s a decent distro and does what I need it to do.

If you’re going to not use software because you don’t like a program with a similar name, I really don’t know what to tell you… 🤷‍♂️

Cheaper than what? Scrounged free parts?

Unless it’s all you have. Speaking as someone that’s at times been poor af, sometimes people just have to cobble up a frankensystem from whatever parts they can scrounge.

One of the things I love about linux is that it makes this reasonably possible.

Weechat. Terminal based, flexible scripting system using a handful of languages, still actively developed, and I can make it work the way I want it to work.

“Repent or we’ll blow you up. Signed, representatives of the loving god.” 🙄

OSMAnd on fdroid can record all sorts of trip data and can spit it out as gpx files, which are just XML and probably pretty parsable in something like Python. That might get you at least some of what you want.

Compiling code converts it from human readable source code into optimized machine code which the processor understands how to execute. For a lot of software you can just unpack the source code, run ./configure, run ‘make’, and then ‘make install’. This can vary a lot and is a simplified explanation, but it’s a start…

For-profit prisons and hospitals.

Digital. I can adjust fonts/sizes, search for content, skip around, and whether I have 10 or 10,000 books, I can carry them around in my pocket.

Yes. I’d like to donate my body to science too, but I want to see if there’s a way to do it non-profit. I’m not interested in helping make someone rich.

Your unsourced claims seem completely legit and have absolutely convinced me…

Found in a time capsule in 2150: hey guys, we left you a little something over there by Vesuvius…you’ll thank us later. And you better not have built a McDonald’s on it…

Thumbs up for announcing it’s creation so we can pre-emptively block it though.

Just adding my congrats. Good job, OP. Regex is super useful stuff.

Command line is a lot more powerful for a lot of cases. Most CLI programs are written with the idea that the caller might be another program, so they tend to be easy to chain with pipes and redirection. So you have tons of simple tools that you can combine however you need.

1. I generally aim newbies at Mint, but ubuntu derived distros are pretty easy and stuff often ‘just works’. That’s why my daily driver is xubuntu.

2. All over the place, really. Another advantage of ubuntu derived distros is you’ll find a lot of the tutorials and stuff will assume you’re using ubuntu. I just hit a search engine if I need help with something.

3. Can’t help you there I’m afraid.

He’s a kangaroo. Duh!

/Jk