Cheers y'all,
Back in July, Framework announced they would be taking preorders for
their 16-inch variant with the dedicated AMD GPU. I decided to take the
plunge, and yesterday afternoon it arrived.
Here are the system specs for my specific device, plus the prices paid:
System: Ryzen™ 7
On 4/14/24 13:13, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I am looking to get a legit copy of MS-Outlook for Win 11 as cheep as
possible for my wife's computer.
There is no such thing as a cheap copy of MS Outlook. Not anymore.
You will either need to pony up for a Microsoft 365 subscription
On Apr 10, 2024 at 11:35 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
wrote:I think they do this so one does not
buy a cheaper computer and upgrade
is as they go. I think they want one to buy a more expensive product if
one needs more RAM, etc.
One of the reasons I am extremely cautious about buying a
On 2024-03-31 07:19, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Am 30. Mar, 2024 schwätzte Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss so:
> > Among the many questions that need to be asked:
> >
> > 1. How can we trust source tarballs / archive files to be 100%
correct versus
> > so
On 2021-02-27 00:03, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> This actually looks rather cool, thought I'd share with fellow geeks.
>
> https://frame.work/
>
> Might look at one of these if/when they come about.
>
> -mb
How time flies. Three years later and Framework Computer Inc still seems
to
On 3/29/24 13:18, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
moin moin,
someone patched a potential remote exploit into xz-utils. It seems it can
compromise sshd.
The exploit was added in February affecting versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, but
the exploiter has been around a while, so watch for updates.
On 3/23/24 10:17, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I have Kubuntu 22.04.4 installed. I wanted to try Wayland so I looked
up how to try it. I ended going to several sites that had
instructions, but none worked. Is there any way to get Wayland
working on Kubuntu 22.04.4?
Probably the best thing
On 1/28/24 22:14, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Apparently I am late to hearing this, but in the near future Cox will
have Yahoo take over handling all "cox.net" email accounts. I've
occasionally in the past looked at email providers but never felt much
need to move. But as long as this is
For the record, I drive a gas guzzling 2020 Ford Ranger, but I would
totally buy an electric pickup truck as my next vehicle if they were
affordable enough and suited my needs.
Also, none of this has to do with Tesla specifically, but rather the
current state of vehicles as a whole.
On
Add this to the growing list of reasons I won't buy a Tesla vehicle.
Between their quality concerns, ability to find qualified mechanics, and
how they treat their workers, now I can add their careless concern for
employee safety.
On 12/26/23 18:11, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
On 10/11/23 08:47, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/HP-15-6-Laptop-Intel-Processor-N200-Pentium-4GB-RAM-128GB-UFS-Natural-Silver-Windows-11-Home-in-S-Mode-15-fd0081wm/2950076964?athbdg=L1800
The N200 CPU has a decent benchmark with 4 cores and 4 treads...
Seems
As a life long Arizonan, I can say that, without even reading the
article, it's full of crap.
If Phoenix wants to be considered a city of the future, it needs to
embrace dense urban planning (and get rid of this ridiculous urban
sprawl), have an actual functional mass transit system, have
This is a necessary program to fill the gap in semiconductor tech
hiring. There are plenty of engineers to be had, but there is a
chronic labor shortage across the entire industry for fab techs that
know how to turn a wrench and work a voltmeter. This labor shortage
has
I work at Intel as a process engineer, and while we struggle with
work-life balance, TSMC takes it to a whole new level. You couldn't
pay me enough to work for them even if I lost my job today, that is
if I wanted to retain my marriage and ever see my kids again.
On 4/17/22 07:14, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
Had to move to Windows for business reasons about 5 or 6 years ago. I
see no reason that I cannot return to Linux on my desktop.
I use Ubuntu for servers so I am thinking of moving to Ubuntu desktop
which is Gnome. Please no flame wars.
On 3/22/22 15:23, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
In the past there has been some discussion about which is better GNOME
or KDE? I like Mint and I see it offers MATE (a fork of GNOME 2) or
Cinnamon (a fork of GNOME 3). It has been years and I think I selected
Cinnamon for my desktop.
On 3/7/22 18:59, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
atforms. Typically though, Linux users are usually more technically
inclined and therefore less likely to be had by clicking links and
other poor online behavior. Less likely does not mean immune.
Thanks,
Alexander
Do be extra
On 8/10/21 1:01 PM, David Schwartz via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> PDF files can only be edited with something like Acrobat or a tool that
> lets you do that.
There are plenty of Linux tools that let you edit PDF files. Here is a
short list, but far from complete list:
* Libreoffice Draw
* Okular
*
On 8/2/21 5:28 PM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
> Now that is funny. Global Warming is a Global thing right? So isn't
> Canada supposed to melt just like everything else.
>
> I thought the world was goin to burn up in 12 years. Been hearing that
> for decades.
>
The world *is*
On 8/2/21 9:19 AM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>
> I think we are missing the point.
>
> This is America!! We have lost our way.
Except... this is a global issue, and not just an American issue.
Looking at it through the lens of America first, and blinding yourself
to the global
All this bickering is missing the overall point:
The era of mainstream desktop PCs draining huge amounts of electricity
is over. The expectation is that we now use power efficient PCs, whether
we like it or not.
If only the graphics card vendors would make usable high end graphics
cards that
On 7/18/21 10:15 PM, Steven via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Perharps he was talking about turning an old laptop into a NAS? I've
> occasionally thought about pulling out one of my old laptops and turning
> it into a somewhat low power server with a built in battery backup good
> enough for the OS to go,
On 7/18/21 5:54 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> My dad was just telling me I could get old laptop flash and make a
> drive with it. My little brain can't wrap itself around that. Anyone
> know what he is talking about?
>
Laptop hard drives are the same as desktop hard drives. You open the
On 7/18/21 4:58 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Because it's more bloated as I see it.
>
> On Sun, Jul 18, 2021, at 16:33, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> You know I'm doing Linux From Scratch and I'm looking into Beyond
>> Linux from Scratch. Well I look at KDE and I look at
On 7/16/21 12:41 AM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> moin moin,
>
> Ted posted on Mastodon about an upcoming handheld from Valve that will
> ostensibly be available in December, but reservations start now.
>
> It's Linux-based and they claims to support installing 3rd party software
> and
On 7/7/21 10:47 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Godaddy is moving :
> https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/tech/2021/07/07/godaddy-moves-headquarters-scottsdale-tempe/5352167001/
>
> ---
> PLUG-discuss mailing list -
On 6/30/21 5:56 PM, Phil Waclawski via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> HP does really seem to work well with Linux. However in our super dry
> climate I'd almost recommend a laser printer instead of an inkjet. They
> are more expensive but the toner seems to last a long time when it's
> really dry. The same
On 6/24/21 7:29 AM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I would +1 the zfs arrangement on this configuration as well. I am still
> rather new to zfs filesystems, but my VM host is really happy with zfs.
> My configuration using zraid and a pair of SSD's for storage tiering has
> been very
On 6/23/21 5:18 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Saw this today, talking about encryption under zfs under linux. Anyone
> using it here that can comment on experience using it yet for personal
> or at scale?
>
>
On 5/19/21 12:57 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Do we want to move to Matrix or other FLOSS chat?
I for one think this is a good time to move to Matrix. Its a FLOSS
solution, supports a lot of modern features that people expect (like
historical chat logging, E2EE, rich text support, chat
On 3/8/21 9:49 AM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I'm still down with keepassxc, but I miss mobile sync for passwords. I
> should probably try Bitwarden, but I expect some other sack o' crap will
> just acquire them eventually if they grow.
>
One major difference between Bitwarden and
On 2/26/21 7:16 PM, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> I mostly think of thinkpads as chinese crap-gadgets anymore since ibm
> discarded the brand name to lenovo. I have one from my current
> customer, a T14, I7 proc, dock, etc, and not a bad box - other than it
> runs windoze that I can't
As an aside, I always found the Thunderbird Rd location to be their best
location. Well laid out for the most part, and the Aztec temple theme
was pretty fun. I was never a fan of the Tempe location with its golf
course theme.
For some reason the Thunderbird location always felt more alive, and
On 2/24/21 2:08 PM, Aaron Jones via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Finally. Good riddance. Their customer service was the worst.
>
>> On Feb 24, 2021, at 1:05 PM, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, nice of them to tell us, the general public, that they were
>> closing their doors. I went
On 2/16/21 8:43 AM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> It looks like I have that final impetus to depart from LastPass. What
> have people been using? And if you say KeePass without specifying which
> one ill cry.
>
> From my notification email sent by lastpass
>
> We're making some
On 2/4/21 2:59 PM, Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Do you have time to talk about our lord and savior LastPass?
>
> Also, please don't store passwords in your browser.
I'm more of a BitWarden person myself, but any password manager is
better than storing it in your browser.
-Matt
On 11/12/20 8:35 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Given the discussion of KDE, Gnome, Openbox, LXDE, etc, I should
> probably describe how I compute.
** Snip **
Hey Steve, thanks for sharing this! This was a great read.
The way you use Openbox is remarkably similar to how
On 11/12/20 8:29 PM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> This is bizarre. I installed gimp with apt (I had it installed with
> flAtpak) and it wouldn't start after the install. so I opened up a
> terminal to capture any error. This is what I got:
>
> BABL version too old!
>
> GIMP requires BABL
On 11/10/20 2:40 PM, Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> One of the points mentioned here was for the visually impaired. I happen to
> be the only totally blind active member here and I found that gnome (among
> some of the other GTK based DM’s) to be highly accessible.
Indeed, I was thinking
On 11/10/20 9:41 AM, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> What do you use for your tray icons?
>
Its called (drumroll) Tray Icons
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1503/tray-icons/
There's other tray icon extensions. This one gets the job done as far as
I'm concerned.
On 11/9/20 5:58 AM, Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A recent thread got me thinking: What does Gnome offer that any old
> environment with a panel (the thing they used to call a "taskbar" in
> win98)? What can you do with Gnome that you can't do with LXDE or xfce?
>
> I'm unable
Howdy,
I am retiring my old tower, which served me well over a decade as both a
gaming tower and as a NAS. I no longer have a use for it, nor the space
for it. I would rather see it go to a new home than to the junkyard. If
anyone is interested, please ping me off-list and we'll see what we can
On 8/31/20 3:56 PM, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> After doing the latest update on my Linux Mint
> system, the Chrome browser fails, will not load.
>
> cat /etc/lsb-release
> DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=17.2
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=rafaela
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela"
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