gpdpocketer

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   by gpdpocketer 7y ago

   Here in Vienna, there is a thriving small-business, local IT economy... but it is rapidly being countered with "cloud all the things" new-economy bollocks. Also, I once saw a "Linux-friendly" PC shop, literally sign-pos
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   by gpdpocketer 7y ago

   Totally easy to step off the net. You just put bits of it in your own space. I wanna write a book titled: "how to run your small/medium-sized office with just a linux box on the wall and your staffs cell phones..." Pretty su
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   by gpdpocketer 8y ago

   I've been using a cross-platform GUI framework/engine to do app development on all the platforms: Linux, MacOS, Windows, iOS and Android - and it has been a joy to deploy one app on all of these systems. One of the reasons this ha
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   by gpdpocketer 8y ago

   Amstrad CPC with a HxC card...
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   by gpdpocketer 8y ago

   I've been a Linux user since the very beginning, and have settled on Ubuntu as my daily driver for .. now .. decades (or is it, I dunno, feels like it..) .. anyway, I am a systems-level developer, lots of experience, and I enjoy myself
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   by gpdpocketer 8y ago

   I use Ubuntu-Studio, which doesn't do this. People seem to forget that Ubuntu is just the front door. You can totally turn all their crap off, run some other window manager, and avoid all the turdburgers. True fact, the only reason it
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   by gpdpocketer 8y ago

   Given that the indigenous Australian languages hold the record for the longest-running oral traditions (70,000 years worth of story-telling), it would be no surprise to me to hear that there was such an influence...
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   by gpdpocketer 8y ago

   What are your thoughts on the home-grown effort to produce small, portable .. and open .. computing devices, as represented by such as the Pyra Handheld and so on? http://pyra-handheld.com/ Earlier iterations of the machine
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   by gpdpocketer 8y ago

   Neither of these services are going to work to solve our current dilemna until we can drop a .framework in and use it from a mobile app.. this is really the space that needs adoption strategies.