Peffse

I swear, I did it by mistake

I'm just lucky the guy in front of me didn't have his truck configured to roll coal, giving me a smokescreen in addition to blinding high beam.

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You'd have said goodbye to your head as well, because that lifted truck isn't going into the rear of the small car... it's going up and over.

it's all fun and games until they pull out the real gun.

I called the incident into the police station but it was before I had the dashcam so they just shrugged (and were probably blood related anyway).

I've... seen this? Well, not an AI model, but I know I've seen something where it takes common words and gives you the best guess on commands, and even common typos.

Yup... drove a small car back from college and two truck bros decided it'd be fun to sandwich my car between them. One rode my rear bumper with high beams, the other slowed down and rode the middle line so I couldn't pass. Then he'd start slamming his brakes.

that's good for testing if a device will work or not, but it's terrible for judging how the OS performs. Mostly because your DVD/USB is going to be a serious bottleneck for I/O. Combine that with the 4GB of RAM and you've got some potentially crunchy performance ahead of you, which would not be indicative of the install performance.

If I were handed that hardware, the first thing I'd try is...

If what is currently being used is usable, and I don't want to risk making it unusuable, shrink/resize the active partition with a partitioning tool. Then, assume I'm multibooting and I'd install on the secondary partition:

Raspberry Pi Desktop. I'd choose Pi OS because it is designed for an ultra low power 700MHz ARM11 that comes with the 2012 Pi 1. The drawback is it's an older Debian install (Bullseye), but still getting long-term support until August. I assume they will release a new Desktop version when that date comes.

RetroPie. I'd grab the RetroPie script for ease of use on installing SNES emulation. It should prompt every emulator choice available for your system, and set up controller support (or keyboard+mouse) and emulationstation so you can browse your legally dumped roms after putting them in the correct directory.

Yeah, I feel like in general IE kinda gets a bad rep nowadays because of it's very very slow corporate demise but it really was an innovator at it's start. Heck, IE4 allows you to integrate it in Win95 & NT4 and patch explorer.exe, enabling forward/back buttons, multimedia, and all kinds of web features when browsing folders. It's a UI standard that's still present in Win 11, 29 years later.

EDIT: Oops... Okay, yeah, I deserve the downvotes there. Perhaps I was a little too enthused about what brought years of stagnation and backbreaking workarounds to the web. But it's hard to understate how game-changing the address bar was to explorer.exe. It was like a whole new OS.

oh! oh! Edge pre-Chromium

uhhh.... not exactly the best example, since Internet Explorer reached over 90% market share by replacing Netscape Navigator and was the dominant browser for over a decade. Everybody used it. It took Chrome years to get a foothold.