Something that I considered doing with a similar laptop, was to use it as a low-end portable gaming system. I’d take a lightweight Linux distro, like the 32-bit version of Q4OS if it’s system requirements are lower than your current setup, and get it loaded with a bunch of games with low system requirements and retro emulators. Obviously, it wont be anywhere near as powerful as your main computer (if you have one) but because it’s portable, there could be some value in having a portable gaming pc (unless you have something like the Steam Deck).

I’m not sure what you mean by tactical shooter but flathub has a subcategory for shooters in the games category. While half of them are source ports of Doom, Quake and some other games, there are a few games I’ve looked into that seem interesting. So far I’ve only played Empty Clip and that’s a pretty good top down shooter with rpg elements but games like Red Eclipse and Tremulous look pretty interesting as well.

You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.

While I don’t have that many, I do already have multiple email addresses that I actively use. I also have them setup as a recovery emails for each other, so that way, if a hacker wants to take over one of my emails, they’d have to hack all of them.

That’s the reason I don’t open random emails and I never answer the phone unless I’m expecting a call/text from a specific number. I’m too paranoid about getting scammed/hacked. I’d be using 2FA if it wasn’t for the fact that I’d have concerns about potentially loosing access to my accounts because the trusted device stops working or something.

I do already use different passwords for every account that I have and I changed my Gmail password recently. Is there anything else I should be worried about?

To some extent. For audio, I don’t really have to much experience with expensive headphones/earbuds but I do notice a difference. I still usually go with cheaper headphones though because the difference in audio quality and durability aren’t really enough to justify the price difference.

For visuals in games, I do prefer to have the best experience but what settings I use depends on the game. There are some settings that are universal to me, like for example, if anti-aliasing is available, I always have it set to 2x (or 1.5x if the game has it) because every option for anti-aliasing in every game I’ve tried looks exactly the same to me, so going higher is just a waste of system resources. For similar reasons, while both of my monitors support higher resolutions, I still prefer to use 720/768p.

I think the only time I really don’t care about visual quality, is just when I’m watching videos online.

I had completely forgotten how bad it was. I’ll edit my previous comment to fix that error.

There was a few things, I can’t remember all of the details but here’s what I remember:

The CEO was arrested for abusing his wife.

One of their content creators, James Ryan Haywood, was accused of having very inappropriate interactions with multiple fans. Some of which being of questionable age.

There were also staff members who alleged that there was a toxic work environment. I don’t remember if it was misogyny, racism or both.

Then there were allegations that the team that worked on RWBY were severely underpaid, with most of them not getting paid at all.

Something kind of ironic, is that a lot of the YouTube channels I used to watch have at some point had some pretty terrible things come out about them, mostly after I had already stopped watching them. Boogie2988, Mini Ladd, GeePM and Rooster Teeth are some of the ones I can remember.

For Boogie and Mini Ladd, I don’t remember the specific reason I stopped watching them but I do know that I stopped watching them well before all of the information about them was released.

For Rooster Teeth, there was only two things I watched them for and that was Fails of the Week, which they silently canceled and never gave a reason why, and the other was RWBY which they decided to move it from YouTube to their own website which was so terrible that the episodes would have severe buffering issues at 240p. I don’t remember what the last volume was that I watched but I know I never watched everything.

For GeePM, I watched him pretty much up until the day when he tried to cancel Vinny (Vinesause). In response, people were quick to bring out information about some pretty terrible things that GeePM was doing behind the scenes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a YouTuber just completely vanish from the internet that quickly.

I know for sure that there are more but those are the ones I remember the most and think they are the most notable.

I might try that later if the issue comes back up. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed it. I did at the time think it was an issue with my HDD but disks wont let me check the filesystem because it can’t unmount a filesystem that is in use.

It seems to be working now, so I might not need to try that. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed the issue.

Right now it seems to be working fine, so I’ll try that later if I have issues again. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed it.

I’ll try that if the issue happens again because right now it seems to be working. Last night, I used the “Fix MergeList problems” option in the maintenance tab of software sources and that seems to have fixed it.

I just saw your edit, the closest to “remove duplicate dependencies” is “remove duplicate entries”, is that it?

The closest thing I see to “clear packages” is “remove foreign packages”, is that it? For the mirror, am I supposed to change the Linux Mint mirror or the Ubuntu mirror? It’s telling me to change the Linux Mint mirror but you mentioned “Jammy”, so which one am I supposed to change?

I think it’s that they always turn from full color to “black and red” when they get too stressful for me.

Ok thanks.

It’s been a while since I’ve played either Runescape or OSRS and my accounts were never upgraded to Jagex accounts, if I upgrade one of them to a Jagex account, is it possible to link my other account to that same Jagex account?

Would it lick me clean or would I still have to wipe myself?