I don't understand why there hasn't been more of a response to his remarks (that I've seen anyway). I was appalled when he said it, but it seems like people are either ignoring it or trying to explain it away.
You're completely delusional. Once he got his tiny hands on that money it would never see a pocket other than his. Anyway, I'm sure that there are more than a few that would be happy to continue doing the job without pay, as long as they can keep swaggering around in their jackboots.
They had some pretty decent painkillers available - Opium, morphine, laudanum, cocaine, ether, chloroform. Aspirin too, technically, but that was pretty late in the game if we're staying Victorian.
I think you're right about getting someone to install Windows being easier. Was there a specific site that you remember being helpful? Or particularly bad?
Right now it's gathering dust on a shelf so it's not getting any less usable no matter what happens to it. I found a site with some info about installing Linux on ROG, but was immediately over my head, which is why I'm asking you fine folks for help.
We had to give up entirely on affording a house. There are ROOMS for rent at $1200 here. This used to be a low COL area until COVID. We had low infection rates so a ton of people moved here and we don't have the infrastructure to support them. We've been priced out of what living space we did have and since there's still the illusion it's cheap to live here, it's almost impossible to get a living wage.
I don't understand why there hasn't been more of a response to his remarks (that I've seen anyway). I was appalled when he said it, but it seems like people are either ignoring it or trying to explain it away.