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MHSJenkins

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Reader, writer, erstwhile IT guy, gardeners and firearms enthusiast. Acquiring and sharing the information and skills we need to navigate these trying times.

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I may have missed something: what's the issue with Blue Sky?

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Thanks for letting me know.

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Wow. Thank you.

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Stay tuned, as I have thoughts and ideas on that in an upcoming article.

(Make sure to like and subscribe, as the YouTubers say ;) )

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How would you suggest using the internet without search engines, and can that be accomplished in a way that is accessible to the average person?

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Thank you for that insightful response. I appreciate you taking the time.

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I absolutely agree, but I don't think it's too much to say that digital freedom and more important access to the internet and the various tools it offers played a starring roll in the Arab Spring.

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It's a real challenge in large portions of the world. So many national governments are perfectly happy with a corporatized, compartmentalized internet--and willing to pass legislation to keep it that way.

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And thank you for bringing that up as it helps me illustrate my central point: the importance of a free internet isn't online life in and of itself, but rather what the open flow of information and communication enable us to do in order to make the world a better place. Thanks for allowing me to clarify.

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I honestly think that's what we can do: start to build free, parallel structures and attract folks to join us. We can't outspend Google but we can opt out of their ecosystem to some degree or another both collectively and individually.

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That one's gonna haunt us for a very long time, even though it really just made official what had been happening routinely.

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I'd love to tell you that it was an attempt at visual irony, but the reality is I originally posted this in another corner of the Fediverse and was too lazy to remove the .
The good/bad news is that I have nothing to sell you.

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Oh wow, thank you for bringing this to my attention. I'm really glad to know folks are working in this direction!

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Yes it is and it does my heart good to find it. Thank you all so very much.

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I have an upcoming article about this but: I just slapped together a older desktop machine with a large HDD and made it network accessible via my local network. Add Kiwix and a few other things and you're most of the way there. The difficulty is getting people to use it.

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"When a hero comes along . . ."

Putin has ‘both eyes’ on Gotland, warns Sweden’s army chief ( www.politico.eu )

After being demilitarized in 2005, Sweden re-introduced permanent troops to Gotland in 2016, following Russia’s annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Sweden also became NATO’s newest member in March — meaning it is covered by the alliance's Article 5 guarantee that all other members come to each other's...

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Now we face the endless question: is this a real threat or does Sweden's military want more funding? I genuinely do not know.

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I have a very difficult time imagining an internet that is both interoperable and ranking-free. Now, that having been said, we are well outside my area of expertise here so I'd love to hear from folks who know more than me.

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That could work, I suppose, but I do wonder how much it would slow everything down.

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Are you looking to give the workshop or attend it?

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And where our priorities as a species are when it comes to atrocities like this.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

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A complete set of security screw bits is ~20 bucks and they're far more useful than I realized until I acquired them.

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And it's only gonna get worse from here.

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I've been using Thunderbird for years and it's great as an Outlook substitute.

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Ah-hem: https://reactos.org/

I'm still learning how to use this but let me know what you think.

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I gotta admit you had me in the first half . . .

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Enshittification comes for all things eventually. "You'll own nothing and like it."

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I hope so, sincerely hope so.

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I am an apostle of Saint Penguin.

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My Sibling in Christ, giving us less for our money and giving them more control over our lives is the intent of all of this. Time to seize the means of computation.

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Once again we bathe in the light of the Omnissiah!

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Mint's Nvidia support has gotten A LOT better over the last few years. You can try it out and see how it goes. Message me if you want help with that.

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If you have a desktop maybe install a second drive, install Ubuntu on that, and see how it goes?

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It does in that it's easy to do and it's easy to remove or switch to entirely. Partitioning is easy in its own way, but it does divide up your drive.

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. . . unless you want to pay a nominal monthly fee.

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You. I like you. We can be friends.

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Get in touch if you want and I'll do what I can to help.

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Personally I've never used PopOS so I can't speak to it.

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Awesome. Hello Friend!

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Granted I'm not a gamer but my Linux multi-OS desktop machine has zero problems with its nVidia GPU. YMMV, as we used to say.

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I'm naive enough to think it would happen faster if there were more market demand, but that's likely my 1990s programming failing to adjust to the 21st century.

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I'm anticipating that an ad-free version will be made available on educational or commercial licenses--or to home users for a nominal monthly fee. This mirrors the model used by Hulu, Prime, et al so there's a roadmap in place for it.

I'm with you re: FOSS OS migration. Some folks will but the majority will stick with Windows because that's what they do. It amazes me how many people think that Windows and MacOS are the only possible choices.

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This is my assumption, and there's a roadmap in place already.

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How are you? :)

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I mean, this particular cyberpunk dystopia isn't what I had hoped for . . .

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When you frame it that way, I start to think yours is the more likely prediction.

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