@ras,
Fossil, would that change for you if you needed one to fly or travel or even go to the store? No! Fly. Travel. Shopping/Store go there in person. Never required such a device. To misquote Carl Marx: 'Smartphones are the opiate of the people.' It's an optically self-indulgent narcotic. Haven ...

@Burn_IT Most of those older people can think for themselves and don't NEED a Smartphone to tell them what is what all the time.!! Too true. Don't have a smart dumba$$ "Smartphone", Don't need one. Don't want one!

@perdido Have you considered for one moment YOU are also contributing to the global ...

JWM. If you can live without the tray, only bringing it to the fore when required, why not just 'autohide' using, ptray-tray options?

In case anyone doesn't like the animation; if using Firefox, right-click, "View image Info", scroll down left side, "Block image" place a tick in the box - and you're done. No more intrusive animations. He-He!
Sorry one and all !

Pup-Advert-Blocker is a Host selective file.

As mikeslr suggested, you are not restricted to just one search engine in whatever browser you choose to run - there are loads out there! All can be installed by just a few clicks.
There is also a website - the Mycroft Project - where you can download a considerable choice. The usual caveates apply ...

It also helps to install a current Host file to thwart the malicious multitude.

... and remember your next nurse may be a robot....

As long as it ain't a proctologist!

To help everyone concerned, please be precise and give full details of each computer: their processor, memory, hard drive and especially in this instance the video system. Is Slacko running directly from a CD or have you created a frugal install and saved it to the hard drive? These little pieces of ...

I'm in the bigpup and Mike Walsh category. Small village, no shops, lacks a post office, no mains gas and no bus service; nothing for over five miles except green fields,woodlands, a large river and the Cotswold hills beyond. Broadband stutters along at under 1 meg per second. Very rural. Know ...

@Scrappy I plan on downloading ALL the lightweight browsers and other add ons to the HD just to get a feel for them, play a bit with this old clunker, then rip out HD and just run off USB if i can . Whatever would possess you to destroy a perfectly good - working - hard drive? If nothing else it ...

jrb " ...Then I found this ca-certificates-2019-03-08.pet lurking in my Downloads. Can't remember downloading it and searches haven't found it. It's more up to date than Sid and it downloaded your test package with no argument.
I would like to give credit to the creator, maybe they will see this ...

Auronius . Do you want to change the font or, just enlarge the menu's and bookmarks in your browser?
If that is the case, you need to edit the browser's (personal) Userchrome.css
See: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Pane_and_menu_fonts

This is an old example, but you can get the gist.
*
* Edit this ...

" Cropping images in mass
ImageMagick

Recently a friend told me:
I have to remove the watermark of hundreds of images , you could do it with a program like GIMP but are hundreds of images, I know that you can automate this process using some commands of the ImageMagick suite; I need your help to ...

Minimal requirements. In case the subject does come up, I've been running (for fun!) Precise March 17 2019 on an ancient Compaq Ipaq desktop 500 mHz with 250 megs of RAM and double that amount swap partition using a security tightened-down Firefox 27 and a Palemoon_27.9.4 SSE GLIBC19 portable. It ...

franzjh Welcome.
Have you installed Flash? On viewing the BBC website I get this reply. Picture below.

P.S. Hungry swans have learned to ring a bell and in return receive food from the building alongside the moat adjoining the Bishop's Palace, in Wells, Somerset, UK.

Two pictures enclosed. Just ...

Speaking as a practical user rather than a 'theorist', I've used Puppy Linux for well over fifteen years starting with a 0.-something distribution, probably 0.8 and then moving on through 1.3, 2.14 to the marvellous 'MeanPup', then 'Firehydrant' and equally excellent 4-series and up to today. In all ...

I suspect that firethumbs is hoping to switch languages between English and Persian via a menu or window style task-bar key.
As far as I'm aware - please correct me - Puppy does not have this form of configuration.

@firethumbs. Is this correct, is this what you want to do? Yes or No.

An ...

Ahem! Could this be the orientation of your network card in relationship to your laptop and router? Where and how is it located. Is the polarization in just one plane? The chair - wood or metal? Any other metalwork close by; artificial leg, etc? Failing any other (sane) answer, take the laptop down ...

bigpup Have you ever visited the Cotswolds? A strange place....!!! whu....hoooo!