I’ve done this and once you know the procedure it’s easy money. You can even sell up for ‘premium’ thermal compound and full dust removal.

It is . But now you know . Don’t freak - and you might even learn how to install a privacy based browser, vpn, or operating system. Keep the tinfoil har dude and best of luck

Thanks that was informative.

I went through a lot to delete all my comments and account. Not making one again. There’s always a workaround.

This happens to me a lot. I have a user ID and password, what does it matter that I’m using a vpn to post a comment?

That being said I like Ubuntu for my smart tv that’s a old IMac

I used to sell pcs at Sears back the day. There was this one weird family I sold a 486DX to and the wanted just one more peripheral…a scanner. You could return entire pc purchases at Sears up to 3 years later depending on how loud you’d yell… Us sales guys would lose the commission and we were straight commission those days so I got into pcs by keeping my stuff sold. They had to have a scanner and I went out to support … Every trick in the book with himem and config…memory optimizers … Couldn’t get that IRQ … all my tech buds tried too. Finally I gave them a free (pre release cus we had it for weeks) copy of win 95 all set up - because it could assign all those resources effortlessly without one text file. Windows wasn’t always purely evil.

We all have our limits - yours is a fair point of ease vs inconvenience. I think that is the market dominant force. That being said with how far any distro has come since I started messing around in 98… It’s close to being that easy.

Upvote for Bazzite - the caveat being how much support the distro gets and how long it lives. That said it turned a truly piece of crap all in one hp to something that was fun in about 30 minutes. it’s a good gaming OS but I wouldn’t use it as my daily driver.

You are the champ for pointing people this direction but eventually like Adobe they will close the holes.

Sure… Heck you could even put some older steam games on it but… Older. As a smart TV or even a firewall or router it would be fine.

Yup. Got Ubuntu running on a 2008 imac and using it as a smart tv.

Funny, I’m a Gen X - and I have everything locally stored and with over 400 gb of music commercial free. -I could just put the whole thing on shuffle for the next few years. Still sometimes listen to ad supported Spotify tho as am used to radio.

Amen brother. I’m not buying it either if that’s the case. Didn’t say I wouldn’t play it.