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My Office Suite is LibreOffice and as far as I’m aware that’s Linux compatible

It is very much compatible, haha. And usually comes pre-installed as the desktop office suite in many distros like Ubuntu and Debian that ship the Gnome desktop environment pre-installed.

but would my ISP be impacted by Linux then?

It should not be impacted at all. :)

The simple aspect of my printer being compatible didn’t come to mind at first

If you install any popular beginner friendly distro (like the ones I recommended) everything should work out of the box and it is very unlikely that any extra drivers need to be installed. For example on Archlinux no printing programs/services and drivers come pre-installed or enabled.

So do not worry at all, if your laptop cover the main requirements, the distro should handle the rest automagically. If you have any more questions you can talk to me directly here on Lemmy, or we can figure something out.

One thing though, Mint is based on Ubuntu which itself is based on Debian. But it doesn't really matter.

Since you are going to check what software you need/want for your new Linux device, you can always fill the gaps with Flatpaks on Flathub, these are meant to be universal packages for every Linux distro and usually you can find there the packages that your distro does not package natively. You can even find proprietary software like Discord and such.

And again, if you have any more questions be sure reply or send me a message directly her eon Lemmy.

no fn way, the notification "falling knight" is sick. I'm starring this immediately.

That is insane!

I read that one guy made a fake AI OnlyFans model with automated messaging and was making thousands. He also was "scamming" different Betting Shops by scraping their website data and calculating their implied probability of and even result and betting to all results on the websites with better return for that event result.

Genius if you ask me, but the AI nude model thing situation is kinda bad.

I've contributed thousands of games to a bot to play like shit. That is genuinely cool.

[bubble goes pop pop]

That fucking little rat, played this game so long ago but still remember his voice.

I remember Microsoft revoking my license keys for a 2011 Office Suite disk which were supposed to be a one-time purchase. Since then I gave them the middle finger and installed pirated copies on every single family member's device.

They could have had a loyal lifetime customer but broke my trust and now they have a full family of non-customers.

Are these laptops provided by the faculty?

In any case I do not mind so much the "I should try to fix this on my own first". If it's your own device and accept the risks/consequences. But if it is a work/university provided laptop then it makes no sense to attempt to fix it on one's own.

I can feel your pain trying to fix/repair something you have to figure out what kind of stupid stuff was done to the device.

ah well, then that is them being stubborn and being unable to troubleshoot.

People who don't read error messages or do not take the time to see what is going on and just come to the technician/mechanic/doctor saying "it doesn't work" or some half-assed hypothesis piss me off so bad.

I know that at some point we all do a little of this in our lifes, but some people don't seem to be able to read one goddamn paragraph ever.

Disco Elysium