This is very close to how I visualized my depression. Good stuff.

Yep. I print on glass with PETG on my Ender 3, and patience pays off.

Just WAIT until the part lifts off my itself. It comes off of the bed cleaner and you don’t risk breaking the piece you just printed.

I tried both Manjaro and Endeavour early in my distro hoping days. Endeavor, like others have said, is basically Arch with a good installer and some good defaults, but it is still Arch, which requires you to pay more attention and get more involved in your OS.

Manjaro was kind of an “easier Arch” for me until they pushed an update and black-screened every one of my computers. Twice.

After that, I was done, which is a shame because I rather liked it.

I’m gonna have to go with the one on the left, even though the black level has been lifted a bit. I am looking more at the toolbar across the top and its functionality, which looks easier to use to me.

Doesn’t matter how sleek and shiny something looks if I don’t know how to use it.

I don’t know. I set up a friend of mine who was a complete computer novice with Linux Mint on his laptop well over a year ago and he has not called me for support a single time, where he was regularly calling for help with Windows. People who are afraid of technology usually don’t go randomly clicking on stuff to see what happens. I’m pretty sure that grandma is safe. Plus, if you’re spending HOURS configuring a computer for an elderly person who likely won’t use it very often…you’re doing it wrong.

What I also do is create a complete backup of all of my computers to an external SSD with Rescuezilla on a semi regular basis, so I always have something to fall back to should the entire system or storage device goes belly up. 

I personally don’t store ANY data on any of my laptops. I use Nextcloud and sync the files I want access to on the go. The rest stays on my Nextcloud server at home.

If you are looking for a (mostly) fool-proof backup system that can restore changed settings and files even from a few minutes ago, you want macOS and Apple’s Time Machine. Pull out your wallet and hand it to Tim Apple.

Backups are your friend. As others have said, just automate backing up to an external device.

I think that the closest thing you will find to PastePal is CopyQ.

https://hluk.github.io/CopyQ/

That took me a long time to finally see. There is a character squatting over the Christmas tree, but they are so tall that it’s hard to make out. All you see are their lower torso and butt.