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This is the best plan. They are prolific breeders so traps are useless if you don't also eliminate the favorable breeding environment.

From what I recall, Opera was bought out by a Chinese company and the original development team moved on to create the Vivaldi browser. I don't know if the CEO kills puppies or anything though.

My local library is 25 miles away and only open 4 days a week, plus it's about 40 miles away from the city where I do all my shopping so it is really out of the way. There is a different library in the city where I run my errands, but they charge a hefty fee for non-residents.

My dad installed Linux on the family computer at some point in the 90s, but it was a bit overwhelming for me and I gave up on it for quite some time. I took an ethical hacking class in college that had us using Kali Linux and that wasn't too bad, so I finally gave dual booting another try around 2017 with Manjaro which didn't play well with my computer and Mint which did work better, but I couldn't get wine working right for my non-Linux games. Right now I have KDE Neon and mostly use that, but I still have Windows for some non-Linux games. I hear Steam has improved the cross platform compatibility, but I don't play games much any more and haven't felt like bracing myself for more frustration and disappointment fighting to get things to work on the wrong OS. I don't like to tinker at this point, I just want things to work.

I am considering switching fully to Linux on my laptop soon because Windows 11 is getting too invasive with the ads. I can live without the games and I do have several that have Linux versions which is good enough.

For reading news, I recommend getting a tablet and a case with a stand to prop it up at a comfortable reading angle. It's easier to read with aging eyes than a smartphone. It will still have the accidental long press problem, but icons need to be dragged a longer distance to be rearranged so there is a better chance it will snap back into the right spot after an accidental long press. Someone needs to make an elderly-proof launcher that has a way to lock things in place on the home screen and disable that long press there. Maybe someone already has? I haven't played with alternative launchers in years.

I use Blokada 5 on my android phone which is a free, phone-wide ad blocker that runs as a local VPN based DNS service that blocks spam address DNS requests. They do have a newer version, 6, that's cloud based instead of a local VPN and requires a subscription and I haven't tried that out. Maybe that one is easier to reconfigure remotely if something important inadvertently gets blocked. The only reason I never tried it is I have a very limited income right now as a full-time caregiver. I have used Blokada 4 and then 5 for several years now.

My pi-hole on my home network is also pretty set it and forget it and protects all of my mother-in-law's devices while she is connected to the Wi-Fi, which is most of the time since she only ever wants to leave the house for doctor's appointments or occasionally to eat out. I bought a cheap orange pi zero to set the pi-hole up on and it lives next to the router. My MIL is a 70+ year old gamer so she is a little bit more tech savvy than your average elderly person, but she constantly falls for ads and terrible tabloid clickbait that shows up in her news app.

I kind of want to try setting up an RSS app for her with more curated news sources and see if that will give her a satisfactory news feed without all the junk. I used to use Google News, but it has become nothing but spammy tabloid links with no relevance to me. I mostly got my news through Reddit in recent years, but Lemmy reintroduced me to RSS and I've been working on collecting good news sources like back in the good old days before the social media firehose of info.

Unfortunately (for the purpose of offering advice), I have no experience with remote tech support. My dad is a retired computer engineer so he's got a handle on things at his place. I live with the tech-challenged person in my family.

It's awesome that you have a local fiber co-op setting up. I hope you don't have to wait too much longer!

People can definitely adapt to new names, it's not uncommon to get nicknames and lots of people pick up new last names through the custom of adopting their spouse's name, but also if you don't respond to a nickname people can call you by your regular name to get your attention. Eventually they both work, but for me it ended up being too stressful to adopt my middle name. I tried it after moving so the people around me (other than family) didn't know my first name to fall back on. I felt really self conscious about not realizing someone was trying to get my attention.

I do love that you have a go-to artist you support here who has been doing great work on our site icons, but this one is a bit disappointing for me.

This logo looks a lot more aggressive, like it's staring me down in anger and about to draw its pistols for a duel. There is no distinct head section, so the eyes look like predator-deterring fake eyes on its back. The eyes also look pointy and menacing in the tiny size it appears at the top of the page in my mobile browser. My brain interprets a sharp point reaching up from the apex of each eye to the hat due to the small gap between hat and eye. I see they are actually rounded off in the large version, but they don't look round in tiny form which I am chalking up to an optical illusion at the working size. I also don't like the lack of segmentation in the body.

The top of a cowboy hat is often a little bit narrower than where the crown meets the brim, the taper and dip make it easier to grasp the stiff top of it to take it off and put it on with one hand instead of having to grab it awkwardly by the wide brim. The really wide split at the top means that bee needs some giant hands to grab its hat. I also don't understand the purpose of the extra bulk on the rim.

The thin connection point of the wings and lack of any filler color makes it look like an atom symbol floating behind the bee instead of a part of its body.

The old logo did look more like a wasp and the face was a weirdly fleshy color, but mainly it just needed a rounder bottom to soften it up. The wings were clearly wings, the head was clearly a head, and the hat didn't sort of look like a crown.

I hope there will be more iteration on this logo and look forward to seeing what comes up next. Someone shared a version with a very mustache looking stripe on it and I loved that little detail.

Wow, the half off student price ten years ago was $50/year in the US. You get it incredibly cheap!

Now you are supposed to sacrifice your sleep for Amazon? No thanks!

I live in a rural area and gave up Amazon shortly before the pandemic. I switched to ordering items directly from the manufacturers' websites. Giving up Amazon doesn't mean giving up the rest of the internet, though admittedly some manufacturers link you right back to Amazon instead of running their own separate storefront, so I have to look for another.

I'm from Texas and "yeehaw" is a southern slang celebratory exclamation, so it's something people from outside the area kind of expect they might hear out here. It's maybe a bit rural and unsophisticated so you don't really hear it in casual conversation except rarely to be silly, but you see it enough in old movies depicting cowboys that most Americans are likely familiar with the word even though it's not regularly used.

When I heard about this server called beehaw, I thought it was just nonsense syllables. Then I saw the bee in the logo without really noticing the details and thought someone added a nonsense suffix to the word "bee". It wasn't until someone suggested members should be called the yeehive (which looks like hive with a nonsense prefix) and another commenter said they finally understand the server name that I took a closer look and noticed the cowboy hat and realized the name was from combining bee with yeehaw. Bees aren't really associated with cowboys, so it's not very obvious if you aren't looking for it. It's a pretty absurd amalgamation but the drawing of the bee in cowboy gear is adorable.