Ubuntu 24.04.1 install complete on an encrypted volume with long term support till 2034 🤙🏽 Wish me luck connecting to my node and my Start9 file server. I shudder every time I see the acronym SSH or have to import a root cert. Goodbye Windows #linux #ubuntu #sovereigncomputing #windowssucks

I took a brief poke around Windows 11 Pro last night before tonight’s planned hard drive wipe and Ubuntu 24.04.1 install. What a trash fiat OS. No access without a Microsoft account, default privacy settings set for maximum tracking, browsers and home screens plastered with fiat news and social media bait, and endless attempts at selling the user various subscriptions for services and utilities. If I was a dev at MS I’d jump off the roof headfirst. The crazy thing is that I bet the average user will just accept this crap. Goodbye Microsoft #linux #ubuntu #windowssucks #grownostr

I can’t believe what a clown show my workplace is. I’ve got a two and a half million dollar bid submission due in two and a half hours that still needs to be reviewed by my boss, edited, converted to pdf and uploaded to Oracle. This process will take two hours. Plus we are changing office locations today. My desk and my computer will be the last items to leave the office. I spent two days on the road away from home scoping the work, drove about 1000km in the process, and spent the last two days writing the submission documents. I’m fine.

My new laptop that I’m wiping Windows 11 Pro off of and replacing with Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is only hours away from delivery. I’ve got the roadmap written for the OS install on an encrypted partition, establishing and testing a reliable image backup/restoration routine with Clonezilla before I install a bunch of new tools, enabling simple firewall and VPN functionality, importing the root certificate, and establishing SSH connectivity to my node. I hope it goes well. Can’t wait to relegate my main desktop Windows box to being a glorified filing cabinet, backup computer and largely offline gaming rig. #linux #ubuntu

If you’ve been fortunate enough to receive CPI inflation indexed raises every year over the past 5 years at your place of employment, your time is still being purchased by your employer at a 25-30% discount when measured against real inflation. You are working a quarter to a third of your week for free in real purchasing terms. If you have received only one sub 5% raise in that time, you are now effectively getting paid 80% of what you were making 5 years ago.

GM from the felling crew this morning. Cutting helipads in the middle of nowhere.

Is anyone using Sparrow on Linux and using both air gapped and USB connected means of signing transactions? And as a terminal for talking to your Start9 node? How has the experience been? I’m setting up a new laptop on Ubuntu this week when it arrives. Transitioning away from Windows spyware. Thanks. #linux #ubuntu #sparrow #asknostr

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I’ve got a new Windows 11 Pro laptop arriving this week that I am going to wipe and install Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS onto. The goal is to have it act as a largely offline and portable second computer for - tertiary encrypted important file backup - writing on the road - PGP tools - as a terminal for my Start9 node - for any Bitcoin on-chain related operations with Soarrow (creating, exporting, importing and broadcasting air gapped signed transaction files - signing transactions that require a USB connection to older signing devices, as I phase those devices out. (Bubbeye Ledger) Is anyone using a Linux box for their on-chain stuff with a variety of signing devices that could offer any advice on the realities of using such a setup, so I’m not reinventing the wheel or leaning my ladder against the wrong wall? Thanks. PS I also have a dedicated external SSD the same size as the internal drive that I plan on using in conjunction with a thumb drive that has Clonezilla on it, so I can routinely image the whole primary system for easy restoring from an image file should it ever be necessary. #ubuntu #linux #sparrow #coldcard #ledger