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<p>Yeah, Hi Ted (et al),<br>
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<p>I've sort of had my interests in Linux on the back burner for the
last three or four years as my life circumstances have gone
through some pretty radical changes since moving from Albuquerque
to Taos. Haven't found much time or energy to study and fiddle
with computers of late. I don't have any real career or
professional motivations toward computers anymore as I'm pretty
well totally retired now. So I've fallen into a bit of a
comfortable but somewhat disengaged computer rut. But I've
always been a packrat, and often hanker to tinker, so I still have
every laptop I've ever owned. Also, I usually hate to buy
anything new unless I can convince myself that there's a
justifiable need or some demonstrable economy to be achieved over
the long haul. All of which is to say that at this point my "new"
computers are probably more than five years old and my "old"
computers are maybe twelve? The comfortable rut is Debian with
either Xfce or KDE Plasma desktop environments on everything, and
either a 64GB or 128GB thumb drive or 128GB SD card "Live USB"
backup loaded with MX-21.3 Xfce or Fluxbox for each. I do love to
have a reliable fallback system directly at hand in case something
goes bad. For a long time I felt a strong but rather pointless
aesthetic attraction Antix, but these days MX with the Fluxbox
desktop seems to scratch the same itch in a much more gratifying
and less frustrating manner. It's a real thing of beauty. I
haven't run Windows on even a virtual machine for more than three
years now. </p>
<p>Just felt the urge to blather a little. The flame is not very
bright, but it still burns...<br>
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<p>Tom<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/23/24 14:06, Ted Pomeroy wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">What are you
working on? Anybody still into rescuing not so old machines
from their proprietary shackles?</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Thank you,
Ted P<br>
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