Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@Riedler (This is also the same place that - still! - sells expired food on the cheap and just *tells* you that it is expired, which honestly I can appreciate)

@Riedler I've never had the experience myself (don't have a car), but I was quite fascinated by it reading up on it - and ended up looking at their past location lists, because the various articles about it neglected to mention the "industrial park" bit 🙃

@eloy Yep :p

@whreq @roelgrif Niet echt, nee... er werd zelfs vooraf al gewaarschuwd dat ziek worden bijna onvermijdelijk zou zijn bij carnaval.

In dit geval is het het huis binnengekomen via huisgenoot die bij de McDonald's werkt, en daar was het tijdens carnaval natuurlijk stampensdruk...

@bumblebeedc Right, so then the process would look something like this:

1. Download a "live" ISO for something like Ubuntu or Pop! OS (you can try both and see which one you prefer most).

2. Either burn it to a DVD, or flash it to a USB drive of some sort (microSD card in a reader works too), using Balena Etcher: https://etcher.balena.io/ -- note that this will erase whatever is currently on the card/thumbdrive.

2b. (Alternatively, you can use Ventoy to put multiple ISOs on one drive: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html)

3. Reboot PC, go to the boot menu using your computer's specific key combination (usually briefly displayed on startup). If it doesn't say, boot into the BIOS/setup instead, there is usually also a menu there.

4. Then select the card/thumbdrive as the device you want to boot from. It will now boot into a 'live' installation of the distro you picked - it won't install anything on your system or delete any data on it, it runs *entirely* off the thumbdrive/card.

5. If you're happy with how the chosen distro works, you can usually install it directly from the booted system, often there's a shortcut on the desktop. This *will* make changes to your system.

6. In the installation, carefully check what it says about the changes it will make to your disk or filesystem; by default it *should* resize your Windows partition, and install the Linux distro next to it, giving you a choice each time you boot.

If it suggests *replacing* it instead, make sure it's okay for your Windows installation (and all the personal files on there!) to be deleted.

If it suggests resizing, then it *should* not break your Windows installation, but it's always good to have a backup regardless because the process is not perfect.

7. Once the installation is complete, you should now be able to reboot your system and boot into the new Linux installation :)

I haven't used distros like Ubuntu for a long time, so I probably won't have much advice for Ubuntu-specific things; but there is a lot of online help to be found for Ubuntu, and Pop! OS specifically tries to be easy to use, which is why I suggested those specific options.

Installing software is going to differ a bit between distros; usually there's going to be something named "Install packages" or "Software center" somewhere, and that's the main way to do it.

Is that helpful? I can provide more guidance if you get stuck on something, of course, but this should be enough to at least get a working installation and tinker around with it.

If you don't want to install it yet, you can also just keep using the booted 'live system' off the thumbdrive/card indefinitely, and stop after step 4; it won't save any changes or files you make, but everything like "installing software" should work fine, it just disappears after you shut down. So should be good for trying things out.

@whreq @roelgrif Deze komt vermoedelijk voort uit carnaval (met een tussenstapje via iemand anders)

@bumblebeedc Are you currently using Windows or macOS?

@bumblebeedc Have you already tried something in the past, and gotten stuck on something specific? Or is it literally "no idea what the first step even is"?

(It doesn't really matter what the problem was exactly, it'll just give me a better idea of your background with it and what sort of stumbling blocks you might encounter)

@electron_greg @danfairs The GDPR forbids non-consensual "processing" of personal information in any sense (outside of a few specific cases, which this doesn't meet); the exact method of processing doesn't matter, and "AI" certainly qualifies.