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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • If it runs Windows it’ll run Linux almost certainly. The cheaper you go, the more likely you’ll have lower priced or older components for WiFi, Bluetooth etc which may mean that you have to dig some firmware binaries out to get the whole thing running.

    If you can take a USB stick with you of a typical Rescue distribution, and can boot it up, you’ll know what will and won’t work easily. The bits that don’t work may need some minor fiddling. As I said, there are usually walkthrough blogs etc around.

    Have fun.


  • Use your surname with a personal domain. Then you can link up other family members to it. Eg. dave@cammeron.me . Otherwise you’ve got to have an email address dave@davecammeron.me which looks stupid.

    Use your organisation as your work email. boris@megacorp.com, boris.bloke@megacorp.com bb@megacoro.com ceo@megacorp.com

    You then separate the work and personal emails. Sending personal emails through a corporate server using the corporate domain is fair game to use in a court, you’re ostensibly representing the company and it’s not a personal email.

    There are various hilarious stories about people losing rights to their name etc post internet era when their company was purchased.

    Don’t try to run a mail server yourself, that became counter productive about the 2010s. I used to run servers easily last century when there was almost no-one sending email, then the sp-/sc-ammers ‘entered the room’.

    Accidentally clicking on a wrong email on a unsecure environment can ruin your day if you’re tired and just keep clicking mindlessly.

    Good luck. Especially if you have a popular surname that your family doesn’t own.





  • Who said that (you have to use their custom mainline kernel)?

    Fedora have an IoT distribution that fits the Raspberry Pi for example. There’s workstation and a ostree versions.

    Armbian I’ve used in preference to Raspbian or whatever they call it today. I like the cleanest distributions as much as possible.

    That’s all I have personal experience with, but there are others.

    Meanwhile, others have suggested other boards. However, don’t think that Raspbian is it (pun intended).


  • I don’t but i note increasing difficulty in upgrading/keeping prior extensions to the new version of gnome.

    For example, “recent files” extensions for the top bar used to number in the threes I think. With the last gnome version there was only one which wasn’t the most useful of the lot. I use it because it makes it easier beginning again the following day, rather than the extra step of opening the file mangler. I’ll probably go with the majority and drop it once I upgrade to Fedora 39.

    Looks like gnome is becoming more useful to people in basic guise, incorporating many of the extension functions within the main GUI, and so the once popular extensions are becoming unmaintained.






  • Boomers don’t do that shit; there was a huge shortage of kids - that’s literally why they’re called boomers. Gen X don’t do that shit - there were no mobiles or internet - we met people by being outside, a concept you totally missed out on. Look it up on Google.

    Those memes are totally Gen Y and Z issues; created by you for you. Your world, not ours. Fucking hilarious.

    Enjoy!