matthew - retroedge.tech

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Today I am doing a System Migration from a ThinkPad T530 to a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1. Customer wanted a lighter laptop easier to carry to the meetings that she uses it to take notes and other meeting business. Windows 10 was using "Legacy" boot. I converted to UEFI: mbr2gpt /convert /allowfullos then set it be able to boot from nvme: sc.exe config stornvme start= boot Shutdown with: shutdown -s -t 1 Made CloneZilla image, which I will then be applying to the ThinkPad T14. #ThinkPad

Good morning. Anyone know of a guide for generating an SSH key file (.pem or .ppk) for allowing FileZilla (file transfer program) to access a remote server with a key file instead of a password? So far, what I have tried has not worked. I am likely missing a step, but not sure what it is. #ssh #filezilla #sysadmin

Blog post on the topic: Broken Fediverse https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-broken-fediverse/ written by nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq09x0x9dlft64y4h9vz9mxu92qpqn752sd8p4xe2zkcanlzmk2fcqdql0gg Good summary of the situation. Also glad that he mentioned alternatives like Nostr #fediverse #nostr

Excellent! Another reason to be happy about the XLibre fork. Tech innovation can be much improved by people who are not afraid of committing "wrongthink". #x11 #xlibre nostr:nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqspz0y2kpf5s0w8xwyc7t8m3vrzr2qspde086ukd4d797scul8pgs9y9554

More reason to keep publishing on alternatives. For RetroEdge, we use our own #peertube server. Video by Kenny (Mental Outlaw): https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/youtube-considers-this-software-harmful:5

I thought this kind of thing had mostly stopped happening. nostr:nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq05jvr9qn324x5qjjmnxqp5fr0xs4700dvjzrtupf8tdmraea26eqpwn3r8

So glad that I haven't spent anything on new Apple hardware or services for at least a decade. Vote with your dollars. Defund incompetence and DEI. Inclusiveness for its own sake is a recipe for ruin. If you do want DEI and what it stands for, by all means go out and buy another MacBook. #apple #DEI nostr:nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqpsu06vvsgzt9aqk0vcs7geu7z5a8ql7wpjxnh2kxq5t0m9qruw3qxh663m

Attempt at Reputation Repair is my take. My hope is that they are not successful. Facebook has proven itself to not operating in the interests of liberty and freedom. #facebook #freespeech nostr:nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqzjnya5ke235hur2ndyzclhq89j7rvsz5rncj48f6mguhulywppxq2jf0ur

Was going through my old pictures. This one is from February 2020. Was trying out bspwm with a Manjaro Community Edition on a ThinkPad T420s laptop. #linux #thinkpad #bspwm

Just installed BunsenLabs Linux on a ThinkPad X13 with Ryzen 7 processor. First impression is that they did a good job with the defaults, OpenBox theming, keyboard shortcuts and initial instructions. #bunsenlabs #linux #openbox #thinkpad

Listening to this right now: https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/wubuntu-an-illegal-windows-like-distro:b I'd never be interested in using this, but I can understand why someone would go through the trouble of creating a Windows look-alike Linux distro. #Linux #Windows #wubuntu

Anyone here listening to podcasts the original way with some kind of software that downloads the audio and then syncs it with a dedicated audio player (not necessarily an iPod) ? If so, feel free to share what you use for software, syncing and audio playing device. #podcasts #podcast #rss

Just burned a CD

Ebay seller shipped the Ryzen AM4 cpu just in a plastic bag between two pieces of cardboard and then in a small bubble mailer. The pins were bent. Took me about an hour of careful work with an exacto knife under a light to get them all bent back in place. I guess that is one reason that AMD switched to LGA instead of PGA for their AM5 processors. I do like AM4 and bent pins are rarely a problem... but when you do have to deal with bent pins, they sure can be frustrating. #AMD #AM4 #AM5

This is excellent news! Keep pushing back against bureaucracy. nostr:nevent1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqxk3t8fgk8aly8cz4kkd963adrtntune5adwzaxfv6tsy55fth2psgythua

Just listened to an informative and inspiring interview of Alexander Medvednikov, creator of the V programming language. The interview is in Russian, as I am not fluent in that language I turned on English sub-titles and read along. Very much worth the time for me, as I very much value Alexander's approach. The last twenty minutes gave me insights into his values and priorities. I think his goals for what computing and tech could be is inspiring. The V programming language is still in beta and it might be a while before it reaches 1.0, so heads up on that. https://youtu.be/xMGNlUZQ-6w #vlang #programming #russian #retroedgetech

What do you think? Did #china intentionally damage these cables? Or was it just negligence? Video and commentary by Kenny ( MentalOutlaw ): https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/when-undersea-cables-get-cut:3

I am not a fan of Apple's recent products (the last 10 years or so). However, I am interested in what's going on here. Mainly because my biased opinion is that AI is mostly a scam to artificially boost tech companies' perceived value. If Apple isn't going in on the AI hype, hopefully that will be a wake up call to investors and tech commentators. #AI #LLM #Apple nostr:note1xmmg7j6kw44pu49smd2357eq6yugw4neen9m5zagjgldx2p0xyyqvq5us7

Most everything that Bill Gates promotes is bad news for regular people. #AI #LLM #Microsoft nostr:note1gj9nhf6luspznfda4mx2t7asn0xmhpzcdsldja0dqqf2zurs07ssa9dc5k