Re: Mtg this week, Apr. 25th, 1730,
Tom Ashcraft <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:59:53 -0600
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --===============5940662182743407134== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------b6l0XR0WKDgzWBOQkUFIz7KE" Content-Language: en-US This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------b6l0XR0WKDgzWBOQkUFIz7KE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Yeah, Hi Ted (et al), I've sort of had my interests in Linux on the back burner for the last three or four years as my life circumstances have gone through some pretty radical changes since moving from Albuquerque to Taos. Haven't found much time or energy to study and fiddle with computers of late. I don't have any real career or professional motivations toward computers anymore as I'm pretty well totally retired now. So I've fallen into a bit of a comfortable but somewhat disengaged computer rut. But I've always been a packrat, and often hanker to tinker, so I still have every laptop I've ever owned. Also, I usually hate to buy anything new unless I can convince myself that there's a justifiable need or some demonstrable economy to be achieved over the long haul. All of which is to say that at this point my "new" computers are probably more than five years old and my "old" computers are maybe twelve? The comfortable rut is Debian with either Xfce or KDE Plasma desktop environments on everything, and either a 64GB or 128GB thumb drive or 128GB SD card "Live USB" backup loaded with MX-21.3 Xfce or Fluxbox for each. I do love to have a reliable fallback system directly at hand in case something goes bad. For a long time I felt a strong but rather pointless aesthetic attraction Antix, but these days MX with the Fluxbox desktop seems to scratch the same itch in a much more gratifying and less frustrating manner. It's a real thing of beauty. I haven't run Windows on even a virtual machine for more than three years now. Just felt the urge to blather a little. The flame is not very bright, but it still burns... Tom On 4/23/24 14:06, Ted Pomeroy wrote: > ... > What are you working on? Anybody still into rescuing not so old > machines from their proprietary shackles? > Thank you, Ted P > > _______________________________________________ > nmglug mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org --------------b6l0XR0WKDgzWBOQkUFIz7KE Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> </head> <body> <p>Yeah, Hi Ted (et al),<br> </p> <p>I've sort of had my interests in Linux on the back burner for the last three or four years as my life circumstances have gone through some pretty radical changes since moving from Albuquerque to Taos. Haven't found much time or energy to study and fiddle with computers of late. I don't have any real career or professional motivations toward computers anymore as I'm pretty well totally retired now. So I've fallen into a bit of a comfortable but somewhat disengaged computer rut. But I've always been a packrat, and often hanker to tinker, so I still have every laptop I've ever owned. Also, I usually hate to buy anything new unless I can convince myself that there's a justifiable need or some demonstrable economy to be achieved over the long haul. All of which is to say that at this point my "new" computers are probably more than five years old and my "old" computers are maybe twelve? The comfortable rut is Debian with either Xfce or KDE Plasma desktop environments on everything, and either a 64GB or 128GB thumb drive or 128GB SD card "Live USB" backup loaded with MX-21.3 Xfce or Fluxbox for each. I do love to have a reliable fallback system directly at hand in case something goes bad. For a long time I felt a strong but rather pointless aesthetic attraction Antix, but these days MX with the Fluxbox desktop seems to scratch the same itch in a much more gratifying and less frustrating manner. It's a real thing of beauty. I haven't run Windows on even a virtual machine for more than three years now. </p> <p>Just felt the urge to blather a little. The flame is not very bright, but it still burns...<br> </p> <p>Tom<br> </p> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/24 14:06, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CAM7Qav8ed=K0VVdVx7xcC26NTbCG9-CH5C1ZBqaG4hmCfZkaZA-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org"> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <div dir="ltr">...<br> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">What are you working on? Anybody still into rescuing not so old machines from their proprietary shackles?</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thank you, Ted P<br> </div> </div> <br> <fieldset class="moz-mime-attachment-header"></fieldset> <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">_______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org">http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org</a> </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html> --------------b6l0XR0WKDgzWBOQkUFIz7KE-- --===============5940662182743407134== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org --===============5940662182743407134==--