Thanks for sharing this moment about the Q&A.

The lack of self-awareness about how ghoulish, and close to grave robbing these ‘reanimations’ are is concerning. Glad to hear that museum professionals are not entertaining it for a moment.

Zing! Love it. <3

Highlander :P

We invited another friends’ family over to sit at a table in our driveway. Had dinner, chatted, handed out lollies to about 40 kids, gave them compliments on their costumes. The 10 who were without costume got the same lollies and “Happy Halloween”. I remember what it is to be a kid.

The parents chaperoning kids around are usually not in costume.

As for our decorations and costumes, we had fake spider and snake out, I dressed up family members in a sugar-skull shirt, and I wore a NIN Ghosts shirt.

Before heading out front, my dad-joke got a groan, when I said, “I am dressed as ghosts!”

Fully free distro list

If you know how to source hardware that uses fully-free drivers, they are worth a look.

Guix and Parabola also look interesting.

You probably didn’t even know it’s pronounced Jimp too!!

/s

MATE (prn: MAH-Tay)

because it comes with standard Trisquel and is a smooth DE experience.

Iceraven is a Mozilla based standin.

Can install FFUpdater here:

https://f-droid.org/packages/de.marmaro.krt.ffupdater/

and then select it from there.

4-in-1 🙃

yucata.de - community built website to play board games online (start easy with: Spexxx, Hey that’s my fish, Mountain Goats, Rose King, Balloon Cup, Ali Baba or City Blocks)

Shattered Pixel Dungeon - multiplatform polished roguelike

Sauerbraten FPS - Q3/UT style shooter

Happy Doot-tober

Hi, I added extra info.

Do you know if it is possible to pre-load satellite imagery tiles, for use when away from coverage areas?

Also, is the MS Hybrid mapset installed from, Plugins --> AnyGIS online maps collection ?

Foodista.com

has a large archive of recipes, all freely licenced under Creative Commons CC-BY.

Contains traditional and modern recipes.

That’s what my favourite font uses, behold MULI !

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/muli

TempleOS is a fever-dream.

The entire OS is released into the Public Domain, so it’s technically more free than Linux, which is quite a feat.

Kind of like the Watts Towers, it’s a one-man curiosity or folly.

I used it in a university course in '95, not sure what distro, but customising your shell prompt, and setting automatic timed updates for the wallpaper in tvwm certainly felt like the future. Different and electric.

We would play the linux shareware first release of quake in 12-16 player. Hiding the executable by renaming it ekauq… didn’t work, still got removed from our directories.

There were installfests at the local LUG, which were a fun way to share tips and help others.

One Linux support business existed in our town in the 90s, installing and fixing Linux boxen for businesses. Mostly home/hobby use though.

Slashdot.org was covering the majority of Linux news. Either MS FUD or the nonsense SCO lawsuit, amongst all the positive advances.

Linux conferences were a fun way to make it more real and see many of the big names behind the movement and technologies.

Installed RedHat 4 or 5.1 around 98 and then found the power of Debian. Currently running Trisquel GNU/Linux because it is a fully libre distro with no proprietary blobs or other obfuscated parts.

Many thanks to RMS and all FLOSS contributors, there is such an incredible spectrum of tools available for free use. It has been great to see the progression and expansion over the decades.