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I'm glad you like your FreeBSD installation. Just a reminder that a range of Linux distributions available. There is choice.
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The 'pomodoro technique' starts dead simple but builds to quite a complex system. Might be worth a look. I've used the first dead simple bit myself to get things I don't like doing much done. I've suggested just t
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Perhaps each research area need a mastodon instance to provide a locus for discussion and sharing of new work? Organised nationally or trans-nationally.
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Round here some of the teenagers show promise as tinkerers. Reverse engineering the e-scooters so you don't have to pay is popular. Old cars everywhere being rebuilt and modified. One guy has added a small engine to his pushbike using
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A source for Creative Commons (not pd) classical music... https://www.gardnermuseum.org/experience/music These are recordings of live performances by a variety of musicians from a long lasting podcast series. Licence
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Just seen this one on my ancient Thinkpad. Mesa-21.3.5 is fine, mesa-23.0.1 fails to pick up the graphics card and drops to llvmpipe software rendering. It has to be said that llvmpipe seems usable even with Firefox, but not as good as re
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I'm part way through a third party toner for our M15w and it seems to be holding up well.
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I also appreciated the account of the environment at Bell Labs that allowed the UNIX lab to exist and develop applications over time.
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The issue is common to other seaside towns in the UK although the figures suggest that Blackpool has a larger concentration of the low cost accommodation you mention.
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Is it still the case that Windows 11 will only run on devices with TPM 2.0 available? That alone will give many small organisations such as the library mentioned up thread the choice to adopt Linux or to find money to replace perfectly serv
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I'm sitting here as the sun begins to set listening to Colin Carr playing Bach's Cello suites in an Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum recording from possibly a couple of decades ago on my cheapie headphones (Grado SR 80 open backed)
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Some things I found to be 'new'... Harold Lloyd Safety Last is a comedy silent film that I sat with 2000 other people to watch about a decade ago. There was an orchestra in the pit playing the music that was composed for the fil
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Glad you have something sorted out. Just interested: why not Debian? i.e. still deb based distro? I'm guessing the poster above you wants recent package versions as they went to Arch.
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Contributions to kernel by employees?
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Google Flex used to be Neverware's CloudReady until Google bought the company. https://support.google.com/chromeosflex/answer/11513094 As a concrete example: I have a Thinkpad L440 which is certified for Flex
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"[snip]...endless blue-collar UK worker union strikes, riots, protests, etc" Ummm... nothing like the 70s/80s (I'm old). Seriously I think that the younger people in the UK are showing immense stoicism and forbearance.
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"what does the outlook look like policy wise for the UK" I'm hoping for boringly competent management of the economy plus a gradual drift back towards relatively friction free trade (both goods and services) with our larges
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I've learned about a few pieces of software through the article. I'm just wondering if the FocusWriter odt file could not be processed through pandoc in some way with a style sheet to make a pdf.
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Mr (Dr?) Lee studied with Minor White and Walker Evans which as the OA points out is quite a contrast. The large format choice makes sense given the tradition those two mentors worked in (although I'm sure it was an independent choic
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Thought of trying to finish the story yourself? Just as an exercise?
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Slackware has fairly complete releases from 1.01 (the X floppy disk image sets appears to be missing). Around 1993 onwards so not quite the Ur-Linux. Version 1.20 starts the ChangeLog.txt file that records new and recompiled packages. So yo
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I've noticed a U shaped price curve for some kinds of recycled computer. Here in the UK, Thinkpad X220/230 are currently in the minimum. As you have noted earlier Thinkpads are beginning to climb I imagine as they get recycled a
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True. Also an A5 size artist's sketchbook - with hard covers, 120g/m^2 off white paper (will take any pen from Sharpie downwards as well as watercolours) and sewn bindings - can be bought almost anywhere in the UK and costs less t
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Slackware is pretty manual I admit. The installer does not actually provide an automatic partitioning scheme at all, you boot from the installation media, set the keyboard, and drop into a root shell and run fdisk/cfdisk on the fixed d
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Has been in the 'disk setup' part of the FAQ for quite a long time I think. Do you have special requirements e.g. external key disk or something unusual?
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The comment directly above yours was referring to the work that some of the OpenBSD packagers do when providing packages for installation on OpenBSD additional to the base, using pledge and unveil. As a concrete example, Firefox can only lo
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Yes, you are correct in the sense that you need to create a partition within which you build an encrypted 'device' before running the installer script. And then at the appropriate point in the installer dialogue you need to sele
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Sadly you are probably correct. Perhaps that is the problem (at least with some sectors: a close friend's partner's daughter has worked as a civil engineer with a couple of employers for a couple or three decades now - she can sho
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Just an observation: decades ago in industrial companies of some size it was the practice to move newly hired managers around systematically for (say) the first 5 years so they could see how the whole company worked.
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A Turkish cafe near here served coffee in the traditional manner: little copper jug with handle, hot water and a pile of coffee grounds at the bottom. You got a separate glass of hot water and a Turkish delight cube on a small saucer. Basic

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