Fallacies of VIsion is happening more and more
My collection of short stories titled Fallacies of Vision presented scenario's, situations, that would lead to a totalitarian world. Once such story that didn't make it to print was the homosexuals intimidating churches with law suits and disturbances in churches to force churches into acceptance and to omit doctrine that cast the homosexuals in a negative light.
Yesterday I purchased some non-profit software. A new 'condition' was in place that I had to click to accept. The wording of this condition is very concerning.
"I understand that Microsoft will send licensing information to my organization email address registered with TechSoup and I will need access to that email address to obtain this product. I have verified that the address is up to date in the organization details section of my account.
To comply with the Microsoft corporate citizenship nonprofit giving antidiscrimination policy, I certify the following:
My organization does not have a policy or mission of discrimination in hiring, compensation, promotion, termination, retirement, training, programs, or services based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, political affiliation, union membership, or veteran status.
OR
My organization is a religious organization, and any discriminatory practices of my organization are exempt from laws that otherwise prohibit such discrimination."
Why must anyone need accept the behaviors and conduct or another? What I see the OR is the shot across the bow saying "comply or face exorbitant expenses for products you've come to depend on." No one has the right to force another how or what they should think or what they should believe.
Yesterday I purchased some non-profit software. A new 'condition' was in place that I had to click to accept. The wording of this condition is very concerning.
"I understand that Microsoft will send licensing information to my organization email address registered with TechSoup and I will need access to that email address to obtain this product. I have verified that the address is up to date in the organization details section of my account.
To comply with the Microsoft corporate citizenship nonprofit giving antidiscrimination policy, I certify the following:
My organization does not have a policy or mission of discrimination in hiring, compensation, promotion, termination, retirement, training, programs, or services based on race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, political affiliation, union membership, or veteran status.
OR
My organization is a religious organization, and any discriminatory practices of my organization are exempt from laws that otherwise prohibit such discrimination."
Why must anyone need accept the behaviors and conduct or another? What I see the OR is the shot across the bow saying "comply or face exorbitant expenses for products you've come to depend on." No one has the right to force another how or what they should think or what they should believe.
"GNU parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. A
job can be a single command or a small script that has to be run for each of the lines in
the input. The typical input is a list of files, a list of hosts, a list of users, a list
of URLs, or a list of tables. A job can also be a command that reads from a pipe. GNU
parallel can then split the input into blocks and pipe a block into each command in
parallel."
I have not used it. The only time iI have done parallel processing is with the math software Mathematica.6 and 10.
Ubuntu nicely uses all 4 CPUs in my somewhat antiquated $200USD refurbished hp core i5. Need to get away from a Pentium D, and just in time. It was a dual boot win10 and ubuntu 18.04 and first got windows so it would not load correctly for the last month crashing some programs running in ubuntu.
I upgraded an
I'm not sure any of this will work for an enterprise environment but for a system here and there and maybe on of my resource servers it could work okay.
The late Thomas Lockyer had a particle theory called Vector Particle Theory in which the vacuum produced photons and neutrinos which interacted producing electron-positron pairs. There was no need to find out why less antimatter than matter because the antimatter positron is hidden in protons which are equal in number to electrons. He wasn't happy with the fractional charges in today's particle physics. And I repeat that electricity and magnetism could not exist without matter and radiation.
Metaphor can only decrease the understanding of objective reality, especially in science and philosophy.
Ubuntu is vary easy to get and install. There is a learning curve to get used to how the file system works and for how to get and install new software, best to learn how to use the terminal.
It is completely free and very fast compared to windows 10.
One of my partners picked up an ADC/DAC hat for which I wrote an oscilloscope program for field use (signal checking while setting up remote systems mentioned above - hey, why carry a 'scope when the Pi with a cheap hat can do it on the fly?). Fun project, but the hat was too slow to be of much use for our application. The Pi was fast enough, but a faster ADC/DAC board would be better - better boards are out now, but I'm not in the business anymore.
I've been using a R-pi3 with a $15 DAC Hat to stream my home stereo music using Volumio (a headless Linux version) for years and it works very well. I control it over wifi with my pc or my smartphone.
I feed the output into our Ten Octave Audio LP1 tube preamp that we manufacture here.
Take a look at Linux. It may do what you need to do; Linux is open source and there are many versions maintained for different requirements.
For example, I use one called Volumio as a music server on a Raspberry Pi $30 computer. That is all that one does, but it is excellent in my home stereo.
The majority of web sites on the internet are hosted on Linux servers.
Linux may or may not be the answer for your needs, but it is one way to escape from supporting Big Tech behemoths MSFT, GOOG, APPL.
Look at Linux Mint and Linux Zorin. They are supposed to be easier to adapt to for Windows users.
Herding cats is difficult even for Linux.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgLLK...
(Y-Tube defaulted to low def, so you may need to change that for good playback.)
I am convinced that Y-Tube doesn't use Linux because Y-tube seems to take control of my browser every time I play something. Damn Google to hell.
"You don't need a 'monitor'. You need a 'TV'." Yeah, but when some of us old timers stick a TV on a SBC we still call it a monitor. To each their own. If AJA requested more info I would have pointed him to a cheap TV from Amazon, Best Buy, or wherever just to get things started. The important thing is the HDMI to get things going. Actually, I used my home TV to fire up several PI, but then just go "headless" using VNC on my laptop or desktop. I had an application running where a couple of PIs were located in a remote area over 1000 miles away and used a cell phone type router connected to the PIs and I communicated with them from home via VNC screen share and FTP file transfers.
There are lots of Pi kits and hats out there, if needed, and the end user needs to pay attention to cover whatever needs required.
I've been using the Logitech K400 plus ($25) wireless with no problems, but there is a wide selection of keyboards as well. Once a Pi is set up and it goes "headless" the keyboard gets put away unless a Pi loses its mind and has to be completely set up from scratch again.
It's been a while since I've worked with a Pi (model 3 was the last one I worked with) and I notice model 4 is out.
Wow, that makes Apple's stuff look amazing. ;)
That used to be true. It is now the rare case, outside of hard core gaming, that it is true for non-business use. While I'm not a fan of the move, a massive chunk of software has moved to online "web app" stuff. Grandma and Grandpa can easily run on a Chromebook or a MacBook and be better off for it (more so the MacBook, but still true overall). For the new Apple Silicon Macs, that is even more so because you can run your iPhone/iPad apps right on the desktop.
Tax software for non-business (and even small business): online. Email, web, video, notes, word processing, spreadsheets, all are available via online (such as Google) or locally with non-MS products.
My wife, quite non-technical, does everything on her MacBook except run her quilting machine - which has its own tablet (that they strongly advise you NEVER connect to the network/internet). She can even manage her embroidery stuff on Mac now w/o my custom software.
The only time I've really had to help my mother-in-law w/her Mac was when she hadn't upgraded in years and the version she needed was not in the store anymore. Even then she still managed it just fine after I found the download link (we're several states away - in person was not an option). And she is far from a techie.
Anymore it comes down to gaming and certain professional software categories, or company specific software, that are limited to MS. For the average consumer, MS is no longer the only reasonable game in town.
Here's my current rig I just bought from
From PiShop.us:
Raspberry Pi 3 B + (Plus) Basic Bundle
#K2B-1318 $52.40 USD
(That's the PI and case and stick-on heat sinks)
Raspberry Pi UPS HAT #1638 $29.95 USD
From Newegg.com:
SanDisk 32GB Extreme Pro microSDHC UHS-I/U3 Class 10 V30 A1 Memory Card 100MB/s (SDSQXCG-032G) (about $14 I think)
I already had:
Logitech MD320 Keyboard & mouse ($30?)
An old LG flatscreen TV ($100?)
A regular HDMI-to-HDMI TV cable ($15?)
A Raspberry Pi power supply 'wall wart' ($15?)
Stick the Sandisk card in the adapter and put in in a laptop (most have slots for these).
Use the PC to download the bootloader and Linux (I suggest Raspbian flavor to start with) from the Raspberry PI web site. Transfer the mini card to the Raspberry and assemble it.
After it boots you can download drivers for Firefox, Open Office and other non-Windows, non-Google things you might need.
There are several Windows-like front ends to choose from. There's a line of code you need to run to tell the UPS to safely shut down the Pi if the power goes out. Have fun!
I had no issues with W7 until I upgraded my mobo (to one that is only 4 yrs old instead of 8 yrs old) and although it is supposed to be compatible I have been frustrated with frequent lags in getting to websites. The upgrade has become a downgrade in terms of web performance. Of course it could be a separate 'upgrade' by ATT or to websites I use. I am setting up another machine to use Linux and wean myself out of MSFT's chains.
But my point was that if the hardware is newer it may have drivers that are 'optimized' for W10. Linux is always catching up because there is no financial incentive for hardware makers to optimize desktop hardware for Linux and it make take some time for the open source folks to optimize the drivers.
OTOH, you mentioned using some 'marginal' gear for Linux. Are you testing W10 on the same gear?
I'm not a Linux fan-boy, but if you want to escape MSFT's clutches you should at least give Linux a fair try (if you can spare the time.)
Lucky mentioned PCLinuxOS and I used it years ago. I didn't continue, but it may be another possible solution if it has decent support.
I have read that the latest versions of WINE in Linux do a good job of running software written for Windows. I have not tried it, but I will need to use it for some software I use.
I bought a new laptop computer a couple of weeks ago. During my search for the best one for my purposes, I noticed they all came with microsoft in S mode. This prevents the user to download or apply ANY software other than microsoft. Fortunately, there is a way to eliminate this. I might have been able to do it myself. The process is not too tough. But, given my past experience with microsoft, I paid to have it done. Ultimately, a good choice. $40 well spent. My choice was a Lenovo ideapad3. so far, I am very happy with my choice.
The idea that Capitalism is slavery (common theme today), while using democracy to steal money from your neighbors is so logically flawed it should be comedy.
Absolutely true, and succinctly stated. Pretty much anything else is just "icing on the cake" and irrelevant to evolution.
Tried Zorin today..performance-wise I feel like it fits better in the late 90's than today. Win10 ran better on the system and I found a youtube using the same exact system to run ubantu.
What do I want to do versus what do I need to do?
I pondered mine beginning in 2015. How much technology will I enslave myself to versus the options that will pursue true happiness? I looked at cashflow, expenses, income, tax bases.....why was I always so intent on these things? I was caught in a machine of my own making; my own perception/conceptualization. So, I created my new environment in such a manner that I can do without most tools of enslavement and manifested this in March of 2020. It is a process. Fifteen months later.....I've not been so happy since I was six.
Perhaps a little more assertion. GET THE "F" AWAY FROM THE 'NOISE'! There, I feel better now.
You are far too valuable a human being to manifest your life in misery created by others....nuff said.
The effort may be no more than for using and keeping up-to-date on windows.
Going back to windows would be a real learning experience for me, has not been necessary.
There is nothing microsoft on my pc except maybe- some fonts, and a program called IrfanView which has a built-in adapter. My office suite, I use LibreOffice, reads and writes files to windows standards.
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