Anytime Bob!

a few links for those curious regarding eudora:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudora_(email_client)

https://www.vice.com/en/article/eudora-email/

and pegasus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Mail

before starting a new thread(and potentially requesting it to be a frontpage sticky) i wanted to clarify something
(mostly to @fsmithred given admin/elevated-status/mod/etc. but @all as well)

if i understand this correctly there may be millions of live-cd/dvd/usb/etc distros existing out there globally.......

that.....

bork the booting of an uncertain number of machines owned/used by an unknown number of unknowing victims?

seems like the makings of a good commentary on arstechnic, hacker news, reddit, slashdot, etc...

hmmm.....

i'll be the first to admit that i was unaware that many/most/who_knows? of currently circulating live-distros(cd/dvd/usb/etc), claiming to be completely safe to boot up on any machine without changing _anything_ on that physical computer, instead...

bork it?

i do not think that the vast majority of casual live-distro users(past/present/future) are aware of this potential issue.

in other words, i guess i really want to be wrong about this. hoping anywho.

edited to turn it down a couple notches...squirrels and coffee you know...

our email journey/saga starts at aol and ends at claws-mail
(aol/earthlink/thunderbird/evolution/claws-mail)

forty years of irreplaceable correspondence...sigh...

...walks off muttering something something put those something backups...cough...

EasyOS is by Barry Kauler(original Puppy Linux creator but has since passed the steering levers on to others) but IMHHO it is better

this is a great commentary on the functioning laptop:

https://imgur.com/gallery/functionable-wsDdXEN

BTDT

been there, done that...ha!

fellow octagenarians unite!

^^^ re: "lower life forms" TBH that is well over half of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

also see:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Basic_Laws_of_Human_Stupidity

...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

...

enjoying some popcorn while the world burns

my Beowulf desktop-live dvd works correctly and desktop directory shows:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 devuan devuan 244 Oct 18 2019 refractainstaller.desktop

my Chimaera desktop-live dvd works correctly and desktop directory shows:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 devuan devuan 253 Jul 16 2021 refractainstaller.desktop

the background filename change added the extra size

my Daedalus desktop-live usb exhibits OP OT

don't have time for digging deeper ATM

edit: more experimenting

note: to access the "Launcher" tab, right-click on the desktop icon and select "Properties"
(naturally only "launchers" have that tab in addition to the normal "General" "Emblems" and "Permissions" tabs)

starting in Daedalus the launcher has two additional settings under "Security:"
a checkbox for "Allow this file to run as a .desktop file"
and a checkbox for "Set this file as trusted"

my Daedalus desktop-live usb has three .desktop launchers "Install Devuan" "SMALLER FONTS" and "LARGER FONTS" and all three required the box to be checkmarked/selected for "Set this file as trusted" to operate as they had previously on Chimaera and Beowulf

hope this helps

kicking the weeds a few days ago came across this good snippet from:
https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/i-want-my-bsd/index.html

^^^@swanson & all

re: "all the songs are already composed"

reminded of Barry Manilow's version of "i write the songs"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Write_the_Songs

and now it's an earworm...argh

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-you-cant-get-a-song-out-of-your-head-and-what-to-do-about-it-2017100412490

Brother HL-L3280CDW here