Really depends on the distro, use case and how technical the user is. I'm not up to date with what's what, but Bodhi Linux used to be the most friendly for users with old kit. AntiX for more technical users and I used to use OpenBSD on older gear but that required far more mucking about than most users would be comfortable with (and didn't run Rust at the time) plus *BSDs CPU ticks were not efficient power savers for an old laptop. For most users, who aren't compiling, rendering or other CPU intensive task a ten year old laptop with a decent CPU and 16GB+ memory beats a newer laptop with 8GB because that seems to be well utilised by Linux now. Although I don't know Mac well at all. I am well out of date on such things so OP is likely a safer bet than my 2p on it. View quoted note →

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Minute Cryptic - 15 October, 2025 (I kept thinking this was a double definition and then got it but thought of a funnier answer. The thing about politics is one is forced to take sides. I fundamentally believe most politics is an abstraction from the underlying mechanics of an evolved local and global system of rules, structures, money and power that exhibit some degree of self similarity but there is no plan, no overall control, and as a result it is necessarily simplified because otherwise nothing could get done. The plus side of voting for people dealing with that underlying complexity is that we can essentially vote on the basis of vibes in the form of values. When there is a significant gap between the vibes or values of politics and what is actually happening people lose faith. The gap between what was promised from Brexit and what was delivered is as big as the gap on what was promised on immigration and what was delivered. In reality leaving the EU had significantly complicated effects which are going to take decades to work out. Immigration is among the main reason we're not suffering a massive skills gap, precipitous birthrate decline, and even lower growth - the small boats and inevitable, and frankly occasional, wronguns are being used on the basis of vibes. Politics is not being honest about the complexities and is falling back on all of the familiar tropes. Essentially they're for Good Things and against Bad Things tailored to whatever particular vibes appeal to whichever group appeals to them. I'm going to vote for whoever and you should vote for whoever too. There is no Gordian Knot and Brexit has significantly fucked the prices of some things. Not checked for typos or spelling - I'm not a politician and I'm in a bad mood.) "Volatile element or source of vitamin C?" (5,4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (37,040 solvers so far).

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Minute Cryptic - 14 October, 2025 (Good clue. ) "Townswomen wanting directions turned up for debate" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (36,050 solvers so far).

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Minute Cryptic - 13 October, 2025 (yep. There was an interesting, ish, logic puzzle on crotkid whom I follow on Instagram. I'd recommended critkid for parents and parent adjacent people like teachers. It goes "There are three crates, one with apples, one with oranges and one with both apples and oranges mixed. Each crate is closed. They were labeled with one of three labels: "Apples", "Oranges", or "Apples and Oranges", but a prankster came and switched all the labels. Now every crate is incorrectly labe led. How could you pick just one fruit from one crate to figure out what's in each crate?" It relies on a literal reading and the assumption there must be an answer. if every label has been switched each box no longer has the correct labels, so the box labelled A&O must now be A OR O. The puzzle can be answered by checking the crate labeled A&O . If the crate labelled A&O contains O, then the crate labelled O must contain A. The crate labelled O must contain A because every crate is incorrectly labelled. If, when checked, the crate labellef A&O contained A the crate labelled A must contain O - because the box labelled O can't contain O. There are only three boxes and three types of things in those boxes. The key with those kinds of puzzles, the drill, is a literal reading and asking oneself what information is in the question. I'm terrible at them and have to try‡, but occasionally scrape by because I know there must be an answer. I could be wrong my eyes are bleary. I haven't checked for typos or logic. Good morning. Follow critkid*. AFAIC the correct answer to a lot of puzzles is swearing.) "Crew from vet centre follows possum without hesitation" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (34,290 solvers so far).

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* https://critikid.com/ ‡

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Minute Cryptic - 12 October, 2025 (one of those clues where it is easiest to us their interface to solve it. Yesterday I had to take a nephew to a Saturday, basically recreational, lesson and thought I'd use it as an excuse to sit and read. Which I did, successfully for 45 minutes and 60 pages. There is something about being forced into to sitting down with few distractions and a book. It's why I always take one to anywhere I'm being forced to waiit. They're a good do not disturb notice too. When put and about I've very occasionally heard teenagers and young people play music on their phone in public. Having once being a teenager I can tolerate it a bit. Like low level anti-social behaviour. Yesterday I observed, or rather heard, a grown up playing what sounded like a reasonable thriller as an audiobook. My guess is that they left headphones at home and were stuck in the same situation - waiting. I was squatting on a low step outside a 1950s church like an east Asian reading a book and I'd guess they thought they had it low enough I couldn't hear and they were inside. Or maybe they wanted attention. The equivalent of someone saying "hey, that music's really cool and I think you're really cool too" or "peng, six seven, you like books by Manning Hoobs, we're Audible roadmen bro". Also, in the one place in town people have hung St George flags someone, or some people, have climbed up and stenciled "welcome" on them. I'm not sure that makes them more, or less, potentially threatening. And in some ways it shouldn't be threatening - traditionally the Stars and Stripes, even the Swedish or Danish flags, haven't been associated with nationalism and beating up foreigners and hurting foreigner adjacent people and hate/fear.) "Antique rocking chair in empty attic" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (27,603 solvers so far).

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Minute Cryptic - 11 October, 2025 (I found this one difficuilt and I'm in a hurry because I've got to take a kid to a class. Song unrelated to the clue.) "Brunette’s first two AirPods Pro lost in hair, possibly?" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (31,903 solvers so far).

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Minute Cryptic - 10 October, 2025 (a bit tricky. Took a little bit of a risk because I woke at about 5 unable to sleep and although this didn't take me longer than a couple of minutes there was a chance it would if I didn't use hints. Song barely related because at this moment it takes me about three or four minutes to write any kind of accompanying comment and upwards of ten minutes to think of a track that abuts it. I'd genuinely be faster writing a musical accompaniment but am limited somewhat by my voice being in the octave that tells people to fuck off from the top of a beanstalk. And the worst thing about being up this time of morning, in the absence of anything personal, even worse than suppressing all of the "I should check that and whatabouts and remembers" is that it is too early to eat breakfast and not an appropriate time for caffeine or a filler snack. It's the hinterland. There are people waiting at the train station and preparing for their day, and, potentially, in a grimmer situation and that deserves recognition. Many of whom have also had breakfast.) "Critic rewound stream featuring female, sheepishly?" (8) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (16,910 solvers so far).

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Wringer.

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Minute Cryptic - 9 October, 2025 (Song unrelated. My brain is divided between Tinder matches and breakfast. I think I'm going to be courteous, because it's a weird enough thing as it is, anything online, like verbal and pictorial holographic projections of aspects of our souls. It's hard to put oneself out there. Dad's been, mostly, smoke for nearly a year, my head is together, even if I feel like I've been through a ringer physically today, time to get back into the world. I am basically a loser. Of sorts. So the only way is up. Or sideways. And preferably not down, outside of certain circumstances. I'll be fine after some stretching.) "Me? Doing bad, kind of blue" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (36,370 solvers so far).

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Minute Cryptic - 8 October, 2025 (I got this by guessing then got it got it. I hear people my age go on about how much worse they feel than when they were younger and it has never rung true for me because I had bouts of severe juvenile arthritis and continuing bouts of spondyloarthritis. So I've generally felt about the same or better most of the time. Or, at least I have worse reference points to how bad one can feel, or something like that. I think going on a skateboard would probably not be a good idea without practice and I definitely get fatter quicker. However there is an accumulation of grief dreams. When one has a dream about someone or someplace that directly or indirectly isn't there any more. I had three last night - dad, Peter the mechanic visiting and realising dad wasn't there to talk to him, one of two gramdads being a bit mad but in a nostalgic way, and a deaf great aunt, at a house that had been demolished in a town where my family no longer lives and I'd now visit as a tourist not a guest, all made cameos. On the other hand, I am still amused by someone having "Send flowers over dick pics anyday!" in their Tinder about info, last night, because I thought about the types of flowers that could cover genitals and the logistics of taking the selfie*. What a wonderful age of technology.) "Spain's and France's and Italy's earliest hairy humanoid" (4) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (34,120 solvers so far).

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* for reference I wouldn't do this for fear of them turning up at a later date on a website for, the albeit probably tiny, community of women with a fetish for flowers over dick pics. Plus solicited dick pics are less foul than unsolicited ones but also a bit of a red flag. I don't think the flowers over dick pics were solicited. I could send a picture of Morrissey but that's maybe a niche joke.

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Minute Cryptic - 7 October, 2025 (a British internet piggy bank. I don't really agree with it because I think a world in which there is loads of nonsense indistinguishable from truth means people won't trust what they read. Which is, in some ways, what has happened. Except rather that self reflection and attempts at critical thinking people believe in whatever makes sense to them and makes them angry or happy. In an attempt to monetise GPUs AI firms are going to increasingly pivot to video content with adverts. Nothing could go wrong there. I saw a cool video in which Dutch people go nuts for tulips. There was a happy, or at least not sad, ending - maybe it needs to be angrier or sadder for maximum engagement.) "Tailor billed 500 less for offensive suit?" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (34,535 solvers so far).

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Minute Cryptic - 6 October, 2025 (got it. I'm not so much in hibernation as grumpination whereby I feel the news is depressing enough that the best reaction to it is to do something else. Reading the news is like reading a medieval bestiary, where the underlying creeds curate a collection of thinly veiled moral stories that, from their perspective, can teach the reader something about themselves and god's plan for the world. Reinforcing societal norms and normalising concerns. News was proto-social media. Social media with fewer bosses and fewer people called things like beatingmyCuck667, PeaceSusan13, PaulioNo2Vx, NotRscistBurtI88 and ReikiHerbert3, replying and subscribing and sharing and lapping it up, like a snowball made of gits. That's not to imply news doesn't exist or isn't important, because it does exist, and is important. Also breakfast.) "Rejected dwarf Bashful left plushy toy unfinished" (5) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (31,080 solvers so far).

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Minute Cryptic - 5 October, 2025 (Once I got it, it makes sense and there is unambiguously a single answer but I found that one difficult because I assumed the obvious guess wasn't the answer. Dioxus*, which is a full stack app framework for Rust, which I'm hoping gets to 0.7 because it's pretty exciting and useful - the extent to which I dislike node.js electron etc. is because I see it as an unaccountability and emshittification framework, but quite irrationally so. Anyway, that aside, Dioxus' 0.6 tutorial has an app that pulls random images of dogs and a user can click yes or no if they like those dogs. I would never use dogs in the context of women because of the connotations of bitches but I am on Tinder and while I don't consider myself a dog, but there are worse animals.) "Right, Left! Marches keeping time for strikers?" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (27,950 solvers so far).

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Dioxus | Fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust

A fullstack crossplatform app framework for Rust. Supports Web, Desktop, SSR, Liveview, and Mobile.

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Minute Cryptic - 4 October, 2025 (breakfast. Talk later.) "Leaves Inca ruins in Western Hemisphere" (7) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 3 under the community par (27,400 solvers so far).

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World Food, 108-112 Calverley Road, Tunbridge Wells. Long may their quality be supreme, their sales volumes high, and their prices reasonable. Recommended. A large range.

There has been quite a few good releases recently. My liked list currently stands at 534 songs (although some albums those songs are from would substantially increase that number). A screenshot of current top of the stack. Far Away is from an album I own that has been reissued because I don't recall that version of the song and Matt Friedberger is a marvellous musical pain in the arse (which I unequivocally mean as a term of endearment - if people were quarter of the musician he is they'd likely be very successful). I quite like Israel Strom's Fizz Inc. because it's like Zappa meets Windows 95. And DJ_Dave live programs, which isn't new as a concept but DJ_Dave's songs have the expression and feeling that is often missing and not ephemeral - in summary live programs music and is good at it. They're unrelated musically but in my head it's filed next to Stellardrone's Airglow and Simian's Orange Glow. I think neurons work like that.

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Minute Cryptic - 3 October, 2025 (I feel like I'm that answer, getting this clue because I used a crossword dictionary and went backwards from there, which is barely satisfactory, and it would have between three and one under the community par, had I used hints. Not entirely without skill because there were 15 other potential answers and I knew it which one because of the wordplay. As an adult I think it is an advantage and a disadvantage to have a realistic idea about one's own abilities. It's an advantage because knowing what you don't know is half the battle and also a disadvantage because knowing what you don't know makes you less likely to attempt something and learn as you do it. Or look like a dick, a legend or both. Yin and Yang naïvety.) "Sham hearing: litigate partner for a buck" (6) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (23,400 solvers so far).

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I add the All Bran in the morning so it goes crunchy cereal, cocoa, yoghurt, fruit/chia, cocoa/raisins. If the serial was in overnight it'd lose too much crunch.

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Minute Cryptic - 2 October, 2025 (It's difficult to balance any game or puzzles when it has mass market appeal unless its schtick is that it is casual or very difficult. I think varying it up is the only sane approach because then there is something for everyone. At the.moment, well not right not at this moment, I am eating cherries for breakfast with yoghurt and All Bran‡. It is quite a feat of engineering, or at the least, evolved deliciousness. I have half gram sensitive scales for cooking. I take a French style breakfast bowl and place 20gms of raisins at the bottom and about a teaspoon of cocoa powder. I put 80gm of frozen fruit on top, at the moment it's cherries, then add 15gm of chia seeds, then 100gm of Greek type yogurt, then another teaspoon of cocoa. I cover it with tinfoil and put it in the fridge for the fruit to defrost overnight. Then when I wake up I add 40gms of All Bran although I'm vaguely considering replacing it with just bran sticks, because I really don't need the fortifications, but the unsweetened, unfortified, bran sticks cost more than both Sainsbury's own brand bran sticks and Kellogs All Bran. To their discredit Lidl stopped selling their bran sticks. The chia seeds, raisins and cocoa powder below and adjacent to the fruit absorb excess moisture from the fruit juices and make a kind of chocolate sauce. All Bran contains sugar. So basically I start my day with a kind of dark chocolate pudding.) "20/20 vision eye patch" (3) 🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣🟣 🏆 0 hints – 1 under the community par (31,188 solvers so far).

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(A footnote regarding; Psychologist's Propeller EP. I don't really know much about how popular music works and the bits I do often seem appalling, but between the Propeller EP and the album:

WOODSY BRANSFIELD

psychologist, by WOODSY BRANSFIELD

11 track album

Very, very, good art and music. ) ‡