LXTerminal.

I don’t know if increasing the font size counts as customization. I’ve got old, tired eyes.

Transparency is also turned on, which I think I did with compton. It was a long time ago and seems to persist through Debian’s dist upgrades.

It’s worth adding that the entire LXDE suite is great software. It just works. I hope I don’t have to give it up any time soon.

There’s always BSD!

Fair. :)

You seriously haven’t had to provide tech support to relatives with MacOS. Windows is brilliant in comparison.

I would love to see this on my ATM!

A lot of people deride security by obscurity, but I like using Linux simply because the Linux desktop is secure and isn’t as big a target as Windows or MacOS. These “year of the Linux desktop” articles have been coming out for years and I’ve always thought, “I sure hope not!”

This is why we still need Richard Stallman. That guy never gives up on explaining why manipulative, proprietary software is against our interests.

Use free software – and when you can’t, use ad-blockers, privacy badger, noscript, etc.

I’ve been using LibreOffice at home for years.

My employer’s recent wholesale shift to Office365/Teams/OneDrive convinced me to switch to LibreOffice at work. It’s a good thing that there’s a portable version, because that’s the only way I can use it on their locked-down laptop.

When I was a kid, I owned a remote control van called the Max Machine. It was sonic, but not ultrasonic. It had a remote with one button that made a loud “clack” when you pressed it. A clack would turn the front wheels left, another would turn them back to the center, another would turn them right, and so on…

The clacking drove my parents crazy. Here’s a link: https://flashbak.com/powered-fun-thrills-remembering-schapers-telesonic-toys-mid-1970s-53252/

I guess you could also include “the clapper” among sonically-controlled items. It also had one of the most annoying jingles ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRWtFVFSx5I

Thanks. I’ll look to see if my Subaru has the same setting.

I just gave up my 91 Mazda B2200 and bought a Crosstrek and a trailer. What is the point of a four or five foot box? I don’t get it.

The trailer has the length and is nice and low for loading. The crazy thing is that I now see people with $100,000 pickup trucks towing trailers like mine. Insane.

In a classic car with thin pillars between the windows and lots more glass, you don’t need the sensors because you can actually see well.

I hate that. I don’t connect my phone because of it.

That’s partly because modern cars have really bad sightlines. The old ones (without airbags) had thinner pillars between the windows and way more glass, which meant that you could see around the car much better.

Edit: but yeah, you’re right that a backup cam is really useful now.

Depending on your commute, an ebike might also serve the purpose.

There already are: I’ve bought a regular remote start (the car came with subscription cellular remote start) and a little box to make my auto start-stop setting persistent.

I checked into those things before buying. I guess that’s the world we’re in now.

I just took my '91 Mazda off the road (undercarriage rust) and bought a '24 Subaru Crosstrek with an 11" touchscreen that I did not want. The best feature? You can turn it off and it stays off, every time you use the car.

If you put the heat/AC into auto, there are physical buttons to raise and lower the temperature. The screen flashes on for a second to display the temperature change. There are also physical buttons on the steering wheel to skip through the radio stations (which display between the tach and speedometer) and adjust the volume.

Perfect. I’m so glad not to have to leave that screen on.

Greenland. The only non-green part of the world.

Whoops. Overlooked Ethiopia.

A. yes, that’s me.

B. we can’t force other people to come here, though it would be nice if they did.

I did exactly this with my Sony BRAVIA Eavesdropper Pro ™.

I despise both the privacy violations and the “soap opera effect.”