I just got a refurbished ThinkPad L15 Gen 1 laptop out to a local customer. He asked for Linux, so I recommended and pre-installed Linux Mint Debian Edition. I should have taken a screenshot of the 'fetch' output on this laptop. Nice upgrades. Intel i7 (10th gen), upgraded to 32GB memory (two 16GB modules) and a new 1TB Crucial NVME SSD. #thinkPad #Linux #LinuxMint #Debian

Get the next task done... and then the next one.

Today I am doing a System Migration from a ThinkPad T530 to a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1. Customer wanted a lighter laptop easier to carry to the meetings that she uses it to take notes and other meeting business. Windows 10 was using "Legacy" boot. I converted to UEFI: mbr2gpt /convert /allowfullos then set it be able to boot from nvme: sc.exe config stornvme start= boot Shutdown with: shutdown -s -t 1 Made CloneZilla image, which I will then be applying to the ThinkPad T14. #ThinkPad

Good morning. Anyone know of a guide for generating an SSH key file (.pem or .ppk) for allowing FileZilla (file transfer program) to access a remote server with a key file instead of a password? So far, what I have tried has not worked. I am likely missing a step, but not sure what it is. #ssh #filezilla #sysadmin

Blog post on the topic: Broken Fediverse

The Broken Fediverse

When Elon Musk originally bought Twitter, a number of people moved over to Mastodon. There were a lot of misunderstandings around how Mastodon work...

written by @djsumdog Good summary of the situation. Also glad that he mentioned alternatives like Nostr #fediverse #nostr

Excellent! Another reason to be happy about the XLibre fork. Tech innovation can be much improved by people who are not afraid of committing "wrongthink". #x11 #xlibre View quoted note →

More reason to keep publishing on alternatives. For RetroEdge, we use our own #peertube server. Video by Kenny (Mental Outlaw):

Odysee

YouTube Considers This Software "Harmful or Dangerous"

In this video I discuss how people who make instructional videos about self hosted media solutions and privacy respecting content streaming solutio...

I thought this kind of thing had mostly stopped happening. View quoted note →

So glad that I haven't spent anything on new Apple hardware or services for at least a decade. Vote with your dollars. Defund incompetence and DEI. Inclusiveness for its own sake is a recipe for ruin. If you do want DEI and what it stands for, by all means go out and buy another MacBook. #apple #DEI View quoted note →

Attempt at Reputation Repair is my take. My hope is that they are not successful. Facebook has proven itself to not operating in the interests of liberty and freedom. #facebook #freespeech View quoted note →

Was going through my old pictures. This one is from February 2020. Was trying out bspwm with a Manjaro Community Edition on a ThinkPad T420s laptop. #linux #thinkpad #bspwm

Just installed BunsenLabs Linux on a ThinkPad X13 with Ryzen 7 processor. First impression is that they did a good job with the defaults, OpenBox theming, keyboard shortcuts and initial instructions. #bunsenlabs #linux #openbox #thinkpad

Listening to this right now:

Odysee

Wubuntu - An Illegal Windows Like Distro

In this video I do a distro review of Wubuntu, a Windows-like distro that was rebranded from LinuxFX and is likely breaking multiple copyright trad...

I'd never be interested in using this, but I can understand why someone would go through the trouble of creating a Windows look-alike Linux distro. #Linux #Windows #wubuntu

Anyone here listening to podcasts the original way with some kind of software that downloads the audio and then syncs it with a dedicated audio player (not necessarily an iPod) ? If so, feel free to share what you use for software, syncing and audio playing device. #podcasts #podcast #rss

Just burned a CD

Ebay seller shipped the Ryzen AM4 cpu just in a plastic bag between two pieces of cardboard and then in a small bubble mailer. The pins were bent. Took me about an hour of careful work with an exacto knife under a light to get them all bent back in place. I guess that is one reason that AMD switched to LGA instead of PGA for their AM5 processors. I do like AM4 and bent pins are rarely a problem... but when you do have to deal with bent pins, they sure can be frustrating. #AMD #AM4 #AM5

This is excellent news! Keep pushing back against bureaucracy. View quoted note →

Just listened to an informative and inspiring interview of Alexander Medvednikov, creator of the V programming language. The interview is in Russian, as I am not fluent in that language I turned on English sub-titles and read along. Very much worth the time for me, as I very much value Alexander's approach. The last twenty minutes gave me insights into his values and priorities. I think his goals for what computing and tech could be is inspiring. The V programming language is still in beta and it might be a while before it reaches 1.0, so heads up on that. #vlang #programming #russian #retroedgetech

What do you think? Did #china intentionally damage these cables? Or was it just negligence? Video and commentary by Kenny ( MentalOutlaw ):

Odysee

When Undersea Cables Get Cut

In this video I discuss the undersea internet cables that got damaged in the Baltic sea (BCS-East-West and C-Lion1) by a Chinese bulk cargo ship ca...

I am not a fan of Apple's recent products (the last 10 years or so). However, I am interested in what's going on here. Mainly because my biased opinion is that AI is mostly a scam to artificially boost tech companies' perceived value. If Apple isn't going in on the AI hype, hopefully that will be a wake up call to investors and tech commentators. #AI #LLM #Apple View quoted note →