Tag: windows
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The Year is 1995
You’re sitting at a wooden desk in front of a mammoth of a PC tower. It’s beige and blocky; the buttons are chunky. Its idling sounds like the low hum of an aircraft taking off, and the hard drive clicks like a woodpecker having a seizure. It’s late November 1995, and you’ve just installed the…
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Create a Bootable Debian Flash Drive
In my last post, I suggested you, the reader, abandon Windows, jump ship, get out while you still can, and dive directly into Debian. What I didn’t talk about, was how to create a bootable flash drive so that you can install it! This is, of course, sparsely detailed on the Debian Wiki itself, and…
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Apt Install Blog_Post
I’ve avoided writing anything for a bit, maybe a week or so, or more? I lose count of days sometimes. I haven’t really written much for my book, and I’ve made drafts on here but haven’t published. I think it’s mostly to do with my writing-brain needing constant breaks. But that’s beside the point, because…
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The True Era of Open Source
If you’re a user of Windows, and have been for a large portion of your life, you’re probably astounded that, via Windows 11, Microsoft is both trying to mimic Apple, and embedding information theft directly into your desktop. What do I mean? I mean, Apple does Apple better than Microsoft, and the inaccurately named “AI”…