RandyNose 🐱 @randynose@mastodon.rocks
Linux / FOSS Fan / Geek. Drives Truck today, Used to do be a Windows Desktop Support guy. Happily married.
Testing the 3dfx Voodoo5 9000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iHV0NvLPI
A Random post from an old OggCast....
Love Terryf's choice for the first tune... Feeling the need to be sneaky in sneakyville...
https://ia800301.us.archive.org/12/items/JuicedPen080/juicedPen080.ogg
Wow. To be reminded of things that I started long ago... #JuicedPenguin.
To answer the question as to why it's not around any longer. - It was a real time hog searching for decent content.
1st. Seeing if these images will upload full sized...
2nd. Views from the new gig. Top of the landfill baby.
Chromebooks vs Mac's.... One Guys perspective.
Last day hauling wood... Next week... Garbage...
And when I go to see your full profile I get this (see image).
The only reason that it seems odd is that I wanted to reply to your
#xkcd 2006, Customer Rewards
Toot... LOL..
But I'm not able to reply to any of them or comment.
Well, when I view your profile, this is what I see when I'm on the PC.
FBI-CIA-Logo.jpg
@AdamAtSea Weird. I can see some of your posts, but can't reply to them. Or see the whole posts...
So... I delivered the first floor for a house that is going to have a great view of Lake Erie. I should have taken a shot of it's view of the lake. - Oh well.
New here? Not sure where to start? This intro by @noelle might help out:
https://gist.github.com/joyeusenoelle/74f6e6c0f349651349a0df9ae4582969
Also I'd like to send you a quick "hello" and a note that if you're on octodon.social that our beloved administrator is @CobaltVelvet. She runs this place and keeps it tidy.
It's also not free as in beer so if you'd like to keep this place running please feel free to help out her Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/CobaltVelvet
(note: I'm not an admin here, I just like this place)
Love Arnold! 👍
Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2017 University of Houston Commencement Address
We don't get to where we are alone.
.... looks like I might be getting another gig. Longer days, but bigger checks.
I'm not only going to talk trash.... I'll be hauling it. LOL
@randynose @MatejLach @RussSharek In practise, there's a LOT of "the first hit is free" stuff, a bit of "nah, it's just $0 no worries" and some "well we'll give it to you for half price" but it adds up. To say nothing of planned obsolescence which drives up hardware costs, etc.
I almost have a Talk here....
I can hear it now. In 6 years, people are gonna tell me Microsoft is a kind and benevolent company because look at how when they bought Github, Gitlab also benefited from all the fallout.
Just like, ya know, Bill Gates is a pioneer of Home Computing because he got a computer in every home by way of a monopoly, and Steve Jobs is a visionary because he imposed his proprietary rigidity on generations til people bought into it.
Beginning June 11, no more free API key for Google Maps (now Google Maps Platform) if you don't provide a credit card.
A lot of custom Google maps that have been created over the years will likely no longer work.
Time to use #leaflet and #openstreetmap
https://leafletjs.com/
https://www.openstreetmap.org/about
https://cloud.google.com/maps-platform/pricing/sheet/
I ran into this once with an organization. Ended up building them an entire network out of used and donated hardware and free software for less than the cost of one proprietary desktop.
Worst part? Someone got a 'good deal' on Ms office, which led them to trashing all of my work and spending thousands on new hardware.
At which point I threw in the towel and walked away from helping them.
Ubuntu? In my school?
That's more possible than you think!
Were they any good?