On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 3:05 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
>
> I have been slowly transitioning some systems away from
> increasingly-open-source-unfriendly Redhat derivatives
> (and RPM distros) to Ubuntu 20.04.x (and APT/DEB, or so
> I thought). My goal is a maximum-stable malware-free
>
The comcast telemarketers are pestering my wife with offers
to "upgrade" our service from many streaming megabytes per
second to many more streaming megabytes per second. That
way, we can watch 5 internet movies at once rather than 3.
We don't watch movies on the net. We could get by with
far
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:00:05 -0700
Keith Lofstrom dijo:
>Today I migrated a test machine to Ubuntu 22.04.1.
>I expected all the upgrades to be DEB packages.
>
>Surprise! Canonical provides Firefox as a SNAP package,
>their own walled-garden flavor (like RPM). I had hoped
>to escape jails of
Some thoughts:
1) you are autonomous creatures, not required to do things random people
pester you into.
2) the new name for former-GTE/Verizon/Frontier is "Ziply" (
https://ziplyfiber.com/) not "Bitly".
3) I don't really trust "speed test" sites. I'd suggest measuring what you
care about
Another option is outlined here:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/04/how-to-install-firefox-deb-apt-ubuntu-22-04
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 5:22 PM Bill Barry wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 3:05 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> >
> > I have been slowly transitioning some systems away from
> >
I have been slowly transitioning some systems away from
increasingly-open-source-unfriendly Redhat derivatives
(and RPM distros) to Ubuntu 20.04.x (and APT/DEB, or so
I thought). My goal is a maximum-stable malware-free
environment, not the shiniest-latest dancing-bearware.
Today I migrated a
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 02:14:57 +
Cy dijo:
>Oh, you could run i2p!
>https://geti2p.net
How is i2p different from using a VPN?
From the above page: "I2P recommends that you use Tor Browser or a
trusted VPN when you want to browse the Internet privately." OK, if I
use a VPN (and I do), what
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 17:21:58 -0700
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> When I use a service like "internet speed test", I see
> the "needle" hovering near zero for about three seconds,
> then it gently crawls towards 101% of our contracted
> bandwidth.
This maybe isn't so helpful, but I remember hearing
On Mon, 22 Aug 2022 13:00:05 -0700
Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> Note: I use some obscure command-line-only applications
> that are only available as DEB and RPM. I'm glad there
> are other distro communities out there, but many do not
> have the obscure stuff, and building large apps from
> source
Ziply will increase your billed rate yearly. After they did it twice,
switched to T-Mobile 5G, and happy with the service and the $50 flat rate
lifetime prie fixeé. Be happy to run tests for folks who are curious.
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022, 20:44 wrote:
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