Posts by Luke Worm

After eleven - Mint

A few weeks ago I deleted Windows 11 from my dualboot home PC, and totally deleted the Windows partition.

Now very happy running only Linux Mint on it.

Sweet nostalgia

Memories, memories ... I set up and administered a Lotus Notes server in the early/mid 1990's. My main job was Finance Manager, so Lotus Notes admin was just a hobby.

A bit later, Lotus Notes was made THE standard of the multinational company and "my server" was moved to the IT department.

Contrary to most of commenters, I liked Lotus Notes, and was running it on OS/2 (more nostalgia). I never liked Microsoft or any of their products. Nowadays, as retiree, I'm in the Apple ecosystem spiced with some Linux and Raspberry Pi.

Don't use Google.

Simples.

Subsystems for everyone

Looking forward to "Microsoft OS" based on Linux, with a subsystem for Linux, subsystem for Android, and of course subsystem for Windows to run the Office package.

What's the news?

Google has been doing this kind of scanning since 2008. Microsoft is doing it too.

Old kernel?

If your system needs a newer kernel, go to the Update Manager of Linux Mint and install kernel 5.8. No problem.

I installed this kernel already on Mint 20, before upgrading to 20.1, on my Lenovo Ideapad with AMD CPU. Works perfectly!

Algorithmic Thrust, maybe. But the trust is lost, everybody now sees "algorithm" as a bad thing, a dirty word.

Less bandwidth

According to French news, Netflix will reduce bandwidth, not resolution.

Will lead to more buffering, I suppose.

Languages

Languages are wonderful. If you want to open a safe deposit box in a bank in Sweden, you simply ask for a "bankfack". The clerk will ask if you want a big fack or a small fack.

It's not _that_ bad, according to this test https://webtest.app/?url=https://microsites.hays.co.uk/jobs/ico/

Bitcoin, Ethereum and others are ok then?

Did Facebook have an app like that for Android also? If yes, what is Google doing about it?

Apparently Google has a similar data slurping iOS app !

https://www.macrumors.com/2019/01/30/google-exploiting-apple-enterprise-certificate/

“Senior Americans aged 65 years and older” … like Donald J. Trump

Nothing to see here

Leaving anyway, takes the blame, gets a couple of million $ as “consolation”.

I’m sure one president will say that Google is against innovation, blocking “fine people" and censoring free speech.

New hardware needed?

Does WPA3 need new hardware or not?

Noticed lately that plenty of routers/repeaters are sold with big discounts… more to come, I suppose.

Irony?

Normally we read about how there is too much CO2 in the world, causing global warming and all. Can’t it be bottled somehow?

Actions, not only talk

At least someone is doing something. Follow https://qwant.com and https://eelo.io

Minimum fine for spam should be the value of one stamp per email.

Big Data

Personalised ads, tracking of everything … that’s the details. What we’re talking about is Big Data, all the stuff all the apps collect about us. Here in Europe we’re much more safe compared with the US, where all kinds of data and databases are common merchandising.

But anyway, I have already supported https://eelo.io in Kickstarter. Now they have a Foundation set up.

By the way, as an European alternative, try Qwant.com as your search engine. Qwant is made in France, and I have it as default search engine since a year already.

Qwant Music was announced recently, and Qwant Maps is coming soon …

What a pity, indeed. We have two Swifts, and on my recommendation there are two more Swifts and one Swift 2x in the neighbourhood. I was already thinking to upgrade to a Swift 2x (or “Swift 3") ...

Now, maybe Nokia 6 (2018) or 7 will be my next one.

A class action is possible only country by country, not EU wide?

Or did I misunderstand ?

Control

Never mind the problems, challenges and costs … we will have CONTROL !

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Regulate fake news?

How do you regulate fake news? Make lying illegal?