Black Friday, the shopping day is a gimmick
And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.
Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.
how do I know someone hasn’t placed a bomb inside
You learn enough about electronics to identify things that shouldn’t be in there, and then you open up and analyze your devices.
Alternatively, you could not become involved with an organization that is at war with a powerful country who has a capable spy/espionage agency.
I’ve used old laptops as battery backed up NAS boxes.
Obviously assumes that you can install a reasonably large drive and that the battery still has some life left in it.
I was about to say something similar.
I suspect that people in their target market not being made aware of it is part of the problem that is leading them to shut down.
Don’t bring that to their attention- they’ll start banning open source too.
I tried FreeBSD many years ago (back when I was on dialup and bought a book with the FreeBSD install CD included…).
At the time it was interesting to tinker with, and I did use it as a dual-boot on my Win95 computer, but I moved on to Linux when Knoppix came along.
At the time linux seemed more end user friendly.
Maybe I should spin up an install just for nostalgia sake, and to see where it’s at these days.
It’s also on the cusp of a major upgrade release, so good documentation of the latest version’s features will be in high demand very soon.
Multiple TB when setting up a new server to mirror an existing one. (Did an initial copy with both together in the same room, before moving the clone to a physically separate location. Doing that initial copy would saturate the network connection for a week or more otherwise)
I’d expect Apple’s move to be followed by a lot of creators adding a “Don’t use the iOS Patreon app”
I’ve already received similar posts from a couple of patreon accounts I follow.
The only reason I paid for Lightburn in the first place is because it’s the only even slightly mature laser software that supports Linux.
Given this news, what are our options?
LagerGRBL seems to be open source, but nobody packages that for Linux as far as I can tell.
And I wasn’t able to find anything else when I was looking last year.
What was the last version of Windows you used before hopping on over?
Windows95
I got sick of constantly dealing with the BSOD.
I think it also depends on the locale.
When I look at both Kijiji and Facebook marketplace, I see far more listings on Kijiji.
We’re Watching Facebook Die
It’s not happening fast enough.
I didn’t say it wouldn’t work for me, only that they make it hard to get here.
It would be cool if they sold the thing in (or were willing to ship to) my country…
Lightburn for controlling laser engravers.
It’s pretty much the only choice on Linux (though it is cross platform). Free 30 day trial, then ~$80 lifetime licence.
The other choice is LaserGRBL, which is open source, but doesn’t seem to have a Linux port for some reason. And it has a lot fewer features, with a more complex workflow.
it will just crash on you before you even find out
Older versions may have had issues with that, but I haven’t encountered any crashing in over 2 years. (And I i do 6 youtube videos per month with it)
Better late than never.
Now look at how much the executives are being paid in the US compared to the cost of the vehicles…
It ain’t the welders and wrench turners who are adding the most to the cost of vehicles.
My kids only knew Linux from the first day they used a computer.
They didn’t have any difficulty transitioning between that at home and the chromebooks or windows desktops the school had.