kb7qdi

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Born and raised in Wisconsin. Currently live in the Milwaukee/Waukesha WI area.

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Android helps Apple "Get the Message" (youtu.be)

I’m not a fan of the “war” between Android and Apple when it comes to SMS/texting. The rest of the world doesn’t use SMS/RCS/iMessage as much as WhatsApp and the like, so the US is pretty much lagging behind everyone else on this anyway....

Lake Michigan water is coming to Waukesha very soon! (www.wisn.com)

I’m personally trying to decide on what to do with my water softener. Part of me wants to flip the switch and bypass it, at least temporarily.

What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?

I’ll go first, I took my mom’s college textbooks which came with discs for a couple distros and failed to install RHEL before managing to get Fedora Core 4 working. The first desktop environment I used was KDE and despite trying out a few others over the years I always come back to plasma. Due to being like 12, I wanted to...

kb7qdi, 11 months ago

My first experience with Linux was in the mid 80s when I was in the service working with AT&T 3B20 and Sperry UNIX servers as an admin. I enjoyed just about every aspect of the OS, but most government, contractor, and civilian jobs required desktop software that Linux either couldn’t install or the open source equivalent just wasn’t good enough.

Over the many, MANY, years I have kept experimenting with the various desktop environments, but with my current job a large percentage of our servers are Ubuntu or RedHat Linux (although we’re being forced to migrate to Windows Servers for many of the same reasons yet again).

That being said, with the ability for many Microsoft Office365 products working well enough as web-apps, my home laptop runs 100% KDE Neon, and with the exception of needing a couple Windows-only programs (which no longer runs on Linux) I’d probably be running KDE Neon on my work laptop as well. If I can ever get Cisco ASDM to work with Wine and/or Bottles, I will be switching over soon after.

The DEs in the last few years are light years ahead, and I am personally very impressed with just how smooth everything works. My hope is to get back to a semi-40 hour work week in a few years and help contribute - not as a programmer, but perhaps as a QA tester or the like.

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Pixel YouTuber explains the Pixel and their RMA process - truth! (youtu.be)

I loved almost all the Pixels I’ve ever owned (Nexus 6P, Pixel 2, 2 XL, 4, 4 XL, 5, 6 Pro, now 7) but this guy is not wrong!