I get asked fairly often by various friends when the subject inevitably turns to computers, “Why Linux?” So, to put my thoughts on the subject into a concise format, I’ll post them here. First up is Data Harvesting. These days everything you see, click on, open, or interact with is…
My CFO and the sales guys from our spinoff company have all been eating this stuff called “Factor” at work for a couple years now, and it looks and smells pretty good – so I checked on it a year or so ago… Basically Factor is “HelloFresh” (literally), but it’s…
I’m coming up on the 55 in a couple of days. Wednesday in fact… I still find it hilarious that I’m a ‘senior citizen’ now. Normally my birthday is celebrated with some new computer, but this year things are a bit more low-key given the economy and whatnot – and…
Since my last post I’ve had to load Linux Mint on my MacPro 5,1 at work – a MacOS “security update” a couple of weeks ago did in the OCLP instance I had set up to run Monterey, so I muttered a quiet “fuck it” and loaded Linux on it.…
Well, I gave up on Windows 11 after an entirely too long 90 days… I installed it as my home desktop OS on October 6th, fought with it on and off over the holidays, and finally dumped it this afternoon in favor of Linux. What really sealed the deal was…
Lines join in faint discord and the stormwatch brews a concert of kings as the white sea snaps at the heels of a soft prayer whispered. Listening to "Dun Ringill" by Jethro Tull