I can live with that.

No MUDs? That’s what I used telnet for.

What web? Gopher and FTP.

Unacceptable. I want to be able to telnet.

Landlines, you mean? I sometimes forget they still exist.

That’s indeed a bad development I wasn’t aware of. Even more so if they base their own software on others, and then block others from their platform.

I’ve got a Bambu A1 mini that I’m quite happy with. Bambu studio works perfectly fine on Linux, and I can import lots of different kinds of designs from anywhere, but I think you do really need Bambu Studio to prepare the print for this specific printer. I have no idea if there’s any way around that, but is that necessary?

The a1 mini is very good at small details. The main downside is of course that it’s not very big, so not suitable for large prints. It calibrates automatically and is very low maintenance.

Ah, it’s just a fancy ad. That explains the poor writing.

I did recommend Mint (although I use EndeavourOS myself), but he’s not interested anymore.

It probably didn’t help that I recently recommended him to buy Nvidia rather than AMD for a recent upgrade, because Nvidia had lower power requirements, and I don’t his his PSU would have been able to handle the comparable AMD.

My son also picked Bazzite, which I hadn’t heard of before. Unfortunately he didn’t like it and it back to Windows again.