Retired at the grand old age of 53. I didn't have to but I'd been working since I was a kid so I felt I deserved some time off. Did a couple more years since and then quit for good. Delivered newspapers from age 10, worked in the surfboard business (Velzy & Jacobs) from 13-18 y.o., big ocean lifeguard for 5 years, 5 years of military, university, 24 years in the fire service and finally a couple years as a warehouseman in my mid 60's. Health wise, I had been an endurance athlete most of my life and was a competitive surfer, swimmer, runner and cyclist. Around age 67 I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation (common in endurance athletes) and an enlarged heart but I tolerated it okay. Few weeks shy of my 70th now and just had my second cardioversion so back in a normal heart rhythm for the time being. Still walk about 4 miles every morning and keep busy otherwise. Best upside to all this: I've lived to hug my great-grandson and tell him I love him.

" I felt like I was back in '98 having to edit the fucking kernel just to get printing or sound to work." I suppose I could have made that sentence clearer. I haven't even considered editing the kernel in the last 14 years and did not do so in this instance.

Been using Debian for the last 16 years and always loved it. After my laptop died this year, I got a new one, scraped win 8.1 off it and installed the latest Deb and absolutely nothing worked, nothing. I felt like I was back in '98 having to edit the fucking kernel just to get printing or sound to work. That was not where I expected Debian to be 16 years later. I was really pissed and felt kind of betrayed by something I really cared about. I'm a 70 y.o. heart patient now and I just decided I didn't need that shit and stress. I put windows 8.1 back on, configured it to look and act like win 7, added all the open source software we all know and love (LibreOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, Qbit, learned PowerShell) and haven't looked back. I miss Debian a lot but I'm done.

Doc was talking about a newer pacemaker/defibrillator device I believe (I should have specified such). At the time I, wasn't interested. I've been cardioverted once which lasted about a year. I'll definitely look into the PVI solution.

For now, I can tolerate my atrial fibrillation but being nearly age 70 that may not last for long and I really don't want a pacemaker. Hopefully, I can get some new SA node genes and you can get what you need some day soon.

Your Summer solstice was just yesterday and you didn't party?

Oh my goodness, you forgot this part: "Yeah, I really shouldn't paraphrase funny quotes from old movies." Well, I know you'll do better next time. Now run along.

Yeah, I really shouldn't paraphrase funny quotes from old movies. My real senior moment is forgetting there are mostly young folks here who haven't a clue.

I'm a great-grandfather so I suppose I'd qualify as 'elderly', though I have no idea what that word means and I don't like it. I have several streaming devices but only one that I'd recommend for people of any age who are technically challenged and that's the WD (Western Digital) TV Play. Much like the Roku and Apple TV, the WD is small, easy to set up and less expensive than the Roku and Apple; a big plus for us 'elderly' on fixed incomes. I'm currently using it on an older HD TV and it has never given me any problems and doesn't do any weird shit on its own; like my streaming blu ray player does. Oh, and did I tell you it runs imbedded Linux? How could you possibly go wrong?

With Debian, android and Windows 7 machines, the cable cut and Tier II Internet (2 up, 20 down Mbps) in the house I simply use streaming devices for my TV's: Samsung wifi blu ray player for the big TV and a nice little WD Play TV device for my bedroom TV. Simple, inexpensive and fewer hassles.

Another confirmation of our constitution by the courts that the TSA, the DOJ and any law enforcement officer can completely ignore.

Actually the Debian update thing (compared to Ubuntu) was meant to be a joke, lame though it was. I've run Stable from the beginning as getting certain things to work was quite enough of a job without having to worrying about buggy applications.

If you switch to Debian you hardly ever have to update. Well, I did have to update libexif this a.m. but, just saying.... ;) Honestly, I kind of miss the old days of having to edit and recompile the kernel just to get sound, printing and, if things were going really well, a network connection. After 15 years, Debian is still a happy part of my life and will be to the end.