Please make and publish software that can block your fucking posts?

I browsed the internet with ads for so many years, they didn't really bother me and the flash was blocked (but available) with flashblock.
I finally had to give in and install Adblock Plus everywhere (even on throwaway firefox profiles) because friends rely too much on youtube for music. Then I realized that we're in the days of needing multiple gigabytes of memory for browsing, and bandwith isn't getting better (maxed out DSL lines) or even going backwards (using a wifi hotspot). The web content is huge and inefficient so it uses too many CPU cycles, too much memory and too much bandwith. An adblocker has become a way to trim that down, especially as the average PC is about 5 to 7 year old. And that's not touching the security issue, for people on Windows or maybe OS X (and arguably everyone, because the tracking still happens if you have a 100% secure OS and browser)

Arguing againt an ad blocker is thus becoming like arguing against firewalls, antiviruses and spam filters. Afterall a firewall hurts communication products (IM, etc.), an antivirus hurts a program that would like to patch a binary on the fly and a spam filter hurts commercial prospection.

Microsoft relies on cracked versions for its market share so they don't make it too hard (though, I saw a Windows 8.x PC that simply whined every 24 hours and you had to hit win, esc or alt-tab to make it go away)

What's more boring about a server install is 1) they do enforce the TSE / RDS licenses (maybe CAL, I don't know) though there might be further cracks for that. 2) "free" antiviruses refuse to run. They're "free, as long as you do what we want". Damn.

Windows server + antivirus + allowing of remote applications and desktops would be a bit like running Linux and Wine, in that you can do whatever (have my desktop be a DHCP, proxy and what not? sure, if that's what I want), with some things worse (less so with Windows 10 / Server 2015) and some things better (like games running, game installers and/or DRM running, high quality drivers and sound with less CPU use etc. and a shit ton of software available.)

surely something could be done, even for desktops. Most time you leave the PC idle, there's the browser using a lot of CPU cycles just to stand still - typically an idle browser is the most consuming process or group of processes, even when you use the computer for something else.

A "battery saver" GUI would be useful, whether I have a battery or not, so that it can limit the browser by using cgroups (probably) to e.g. forbid it using more than 5% CPU or 0.5% CPU. I wonder how many kilowatt-hours are wasted by idling browsers.

Did she almost notice there are no security updates for LMDE?, that's the very slight issue with it. It will be all changed with LMDE2.

I am out of touch with these uses, sure you can do something by only using cell phones. In my country using random credit card is not a common use, instead we've used cheques (which have their own issues of trust and so aren't accepted everywhere or for every amount) and then we got smartcard debit cards in 1992 I believe, what americans call "chip and pin".
So culturally at least, there aren't really alternate payment means for random mundane transactions, it's mostly done with the "big" things (cash, and debit card with chip now linked to either Visa or Mastercard), if you pay with credit it's for house, car etc. or some really big store chain, else a credit company will transfer funds on your banking account and you'll pay with cash or debit card.

I would agree if you could run the server-side software yourself, by that I mean your own "google account" system you log into, your own instance of gmail and your own "google docs", all free and open source software.

These days teens, earlier twenties and pre-teens are exposed to these systems where "everything is a search" or "everything is an app" and so it's already getting to the point where someone older has to explain what a file is (!). The young can't use a file manager, can't use a regular desktop application and opening a command line scares them away or have you asking what you're "programming" or "hacking".

In a decade we'll fully realize it. People aged 40 to 50 will be computer litterate and young teens will be computer illliterate, inverting the stereotype of the 1990s.

Be it 2, 5 or 26 euros I always prefer to pay cash, especially if it's to "real people" rather than supermarkets and other huge "machines". Drawing cash at the ATM is free for me (I can even use any brand of ATM) and I like giving 50 euro-cent coins to bums so they're around half way to getting a beer or bread.

So : transactions costs are always free to me (except debit card's monthly fee) but if I use cash the shopkeeper, haircutter, snack merchant etc. gets more money, and I can get change which then enables me other transactions.
Go to a vegetable stall at an open air market : it's not even wired to electricity. Possible to have a small system on battery with 3G modem but it's surely uneconomical to lease and what if the merchant never used an iphone or an android?, how to explain a consumer what he should do, what if there's malware etc. Who can carry a few groceries but can't be arsed to carry a low volume of coins and bills?

That's what pocket computers of the 80s and 90s did, but with one key on the keyboard per application (calendar, phone book, text editor, calculator, file transfer).
Feel free to invent another such computer.

Mint with Mate is very adequate to replace Ubuntu 8.04, 10.04 etc. and Mint Xfce likewise can replace seamlessly enough an old Xubuntu. (e.g. for one friend going from Xubuntu 8.04 to Mint 13 Xfce was about perfect)
A nicety is support has been increased from 3 years to 5 years, that's entirely from the Ubuntu upstream.

I only ever wrote in cursive, because that's the norm in my country. So I print slow and ugly. I would have to train to write in printing, with examples and a new "character font" to learn.

Fair argument.
Sometimes you will see several inputs on a PC monitor e.g. HDMI, DVI or DP, and VGA.

TVs had better speakers 20 years ago : in a LCD monitor or TV there's simply not enough physical room for decent speakers.