There is no simple solution to most of society’s issues.

Don’t let perfect stand in the way of better.

Threats to the bottom line is the thing that motivates companies faster than anything else.

Until this abomination of a law

The “patriot” act would like to have a word with you…

Microsoft exec admits it ‘cannot guarantee’ data sovereignty

Then you don’t get to touch my data (to the extent that I can control who already has my data without my permission…)

Or by a vindictive ex.

Nazi trains a nazi “speak & spell”

Whoopty fucking do.

The problem comes when large portions of the population use it and accept what it says without any shred of critical thinking.

good luck doing anything online and avoiding AWS.

Don’t let perfect stand in the way of good.

It’s not possible in most cases to even know if a given online resource is using AWS behind the scenes, so it’s not something you can really control.

On the other hand, if you happen to be a web developer, that is a different story, but for normal users it’s not something you can do much about.

It appears to have support for the 4G and 5G bands that Rogers, Bell and Telus use

But the last time I was looking at Fairphone, they didn’t sell to Canada directly.

Interesting… I wonder why?

Haven’t heard of kjiji, I’ll have to check it out.

It’s essentially Craigslist, but in Canada.

Craigslist doesn’t really have a user base here.

The same thing might have happened if she bought a Mac and needed some Windows only software.

Is it off, or is it an optional module that doesn’t have to be adding bloat to my system if I don’t want to use it?

LLMs can take up a pretty big storage footprint.

My biggest issue with that is the amount of bloat a full local LLM implementation would add.

But if it’s an optional module that you can choose to add (or choose not to add) after the fact, I have no complaint.

My kids only knew Linux from the first day they used a computer.

They didn’t have any difficulty transitioning between that at home and the chromebooks or windows desktops the school had.

I’ve used old laptops as battery backed up NAS boxes.

Obviously assumes that you can install a reasonably large drive and that the battery still has some life left in it.

I tried FreeBSD many years ago (back when I was on dialup and bought a book with the FreeBSD install CD included…).

At the time it was interesting to tinker with, and I did use it as a dual-boot on my Win95 computer, but I moved on to Linux when Knoppix came along.

At the time linux seemed more end user friendly.

Maybe I should spin up an install just for nostalgia sake, and to see where it’s at these days.

It’s also on the cusp of a major upgrade release, so good documentation of the latest version’s features will be in high demand very soon.

Multiple TB when setting up a new server to mirror an existing one. (Did an initial copy with both together in the same room, before moving the clone to a physically separate location. Doing that initial copy would saturate the network connection for a week or more otherwise)

The only reason I paid for Lightburn in the first place is because it’s the only even slightly mature laser software that supports Linux.

Given this news, what are our options?

LagerGRBL seems to be open source, but nobody packages that for Linux as far as I can tell.

And I wasn’t able to find anything else when I was looking last year.

What was the last version of Windows you used before hopping on over?

Windows95

I got sick of constantly dealing with the BSOD.