Does it work the other way? Can I follow Threads users without being on threads.net myself?

Coincidentally, that’s what using it is like, too. :)

When you say that the keyboard works: do the brightnesss, mute and volume controls do what they’re supposed to do?

HP laptops–at least business-grade ones–are notorious for sending nonstandard scan codes and requiring custom drivers.

Pirate an old, pre-CC version.

That’s what I do. Admittedly it’s Photoshop 3.0 on a Mac Quadra.

As a Marathon fan since 1994, the plans for the new Marathon make me sad.

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Sorry, that was supposed to be a pun on “fork”, in release-management sense of the word.

Stick a fork in it, it’s done.

Oh, I don’t disagree that it’s a design choice. 1990s id Software had, we’ll, let’s not call it a style…

One of the things I really enjoyed about Marathon (versus Doom or Quake) is that Marathon had colours outside of brown, reddish brown and greenish brown.

No tax incentives for compliance, no bargaining, no cost-of-doing-business fines.

Regulators, mount up!

Ah, didn’t know that. I haven’t done a new install–just upgrades–on a laptop since either Squeeze or Jessie.

Did you use the Debian edition of Mint? Debian doesn’t include a lot of proprietary drivers and/or firmware blobs with its standard edition.

I can’t say that’s the case here, but it’s possible that Mint is either using Debian as a base, or at least following the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

There’s usually a nonfree firmware deb you can use, post installation. If you can complete the install and connect to the internet via the 7480’s Ethernet port, you should be able to get the wifi card working.

“Does IBM pay your salary?” isn’t in the flowchart. :)