I have a gmail email account and it is run through MS Outlook. I am sick and tired of the "ad" emails I am now getting. I was using MS mail until it was replaced by the new Outlook mail. I wish now to move away from Outlook to something more friendly that doesn't force ads upon you unless you pay a monthly sub to do so.

Any suggestions as to a friendly email provider and how do I work through Google to remove Outlook and apply a new email provider?

If you are having trouble or are waiting to go from 22h2 to 23h2, Elevens forum has an MS patch that they have made available so you can patch your 22h2 up to 23h2. Go to the Elevens forum at https://www.elevenforum.com/ and scroll down to find it labelled as WIN Update KB5027397. The fix is a simple download.

The funny bastard is at it again...

https://youtu.be/uVE1hBzHn3s?si=uqkkm7tYDvDZfBO7

Looks like the city is slated to be a testing ground.
Expect to see more emphasis on public transport and making the city harder to get around by car.
Hopefully this govt will put a stop to it.
They have already scrapped the wellington CBD project  which is a positive step, had that gone ahead, it would kill the business's.
https://pn15.nz/Palmerston_North_in_Fifteen_Minutes.htm

Quite worrying, since we all love birds, but partial solutions suggested:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/bird-window-collisions

Last few days, after a random amount of time the taskbar gets a glitch.
Reboot fixes it. It may happen once a day, early, later no pattern.

Nothing I can find...driver been the same for a while, it's up to date, system up to date.

Ideas??
When it glitches a reboot is the only solution, while rest of screen/desktop is there, you can't access anything.        

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67343374


"Europe's Euclid telescope is ready to begin its quest to understand the greatest mysteries in the Universe.
Exquisite imagery from the space observatory shows its capabilities to be exceptional.
Over the next six years, Euclid will survey a third of the heavens to get some clues about the nature of so-called dark matter and dark energy.
These unknown "influencers" appear to control the shape and expansion of everything that's out there.

Researchers concede, however, they know virtually nothing about them, even though they probably account for 95% of the contents of the cosmos.
Neither dark matter nor dark energy are directly detectable. Our only hope of gaining some understanding is to trace their subtle signals in the things we can see.
This will be Euclid's job: to observe the contours, distances and motions of billions of galaxies, some of whose light has taken almost the entire age of the Universe to reach us.
Somewhere in the statistics of this 3D cosmic map - the largest ever made - scientists expect to find answers.

Euclid's survey will be the most fundamental of inquires, argued Prof Carole Mundell, the director of science at the European Space Agency (Esa).
"We are human, we want to understand everything around us; whether that was as ancient people looking at the night sky and drawing constellations on our caves, or trying to understand whether the Sun would come back after the winter - we seek that knowledge and insight," she told BBC News.
"We don't currently understand 95% of the Universe, a universe that is 13.8 billion years old. We're sentient beings who've been around for a tiny fraction of that time, but we could be the species that gets to figure it all out."


Dark matter and dark energy are among the biggest puzzles in modern astrophysics.
The former could be some as-yet-undetected particle. Astronomers infer its presence from the gravitational pull it exerts on the matter we can see. Galaxies would fly apart if it wasn't there.
The latter represents a very different problem. It could be some kind of energy in the vacuum of space. Whatever it is, it appears to be working against gravity to push galaxies apart at an ever-accelerating rate."

Still runs for me fine with ublock origin.
Anyone else having issues?
I see Louis Rossman has had some strikes for mentioning the grayjay app.

A few months ago I converted my Acer chromebook 317 to Linux Mint 21.2. It performs very well, but gets a little warm at times as it doesn't have a fan, or any ventilation.
I have been trying to install Q4OS because it is much lighter, yet has everything that I require for the conversion. The installation fails.
The details are in the attached PDF.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

EDIT:
The problem was that Q4os saw the drive as dev/vda, and not dev/emmce. I installed the latest MX23 which set up the drive exactly the same as Mint did. Installed with no problems, runs cooler than with mint, & there is a setting for the numpad key, so I don't need to use the 'onboard' keyboard to enable it. (there is no numpad key on the Chromebook keyboard)   The soundcard is also working, which did not happen with Mint.

Attached Files

  Q4os problem.pdf (Size: 105.35 KB / Downloads: 7)

Any feedback on buying items from these guys?