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Announcing 1-Click Linux: this time I made something so self-contained and so near the ‘finished’ state that I would like to sell it. Yes, I do believe free / libre / open source software can be released and sold for money, just like DRM-free e-books. With no tracking. The project is basically a nice-looking .exe that guides the user through an installation wizard and reboots to a live GNU/Linux system. I wonder if there is someone who would be interested in testing it, or even buying. ...

I have used many laptops so far, as daily drivers or otherwise. I have daily driven an old HP Compaq (4:3 screens era), a newer HP Compaq, a Lenovo and a Dell Latitude. Not a single laptop has ever failed me in so many ways as my Acer Swift 3. Other laptops I will not tell the story of the (more recent) Dell Latitude, simply because I only used it for one year. Suffice to say the only problem I had was a RAM failure and it needed a motherboard replacement because it was soldered LPDDR (avoid this thing). ...

Content warning: discusses divisive topics. If only you stopped and exercised your own opinions a tiny little bit. You’re not only not listening. You don’t listen at all. Both of you. Actually, all of you, loud shouters. Yeah, I know. The mediator entered the chat. But seriously. I am an outsider to most of the issues and I can tell you a lot. This is a small blog, so if you are reading this, chances are I know who you are and admire you for what you have done. I would not create these awesome things you made. You are an awesome person. We all are. ...

Ever wanted to try Plan 9 but it did not work? Just kidding. My setup involves a Linux router as a file server, a Raspberry Pi 2 CPU server, and a generic netboot config for amd64 terminals (including QEMU). File server on the router means DHCP (of course it does it already; OpenWRT uses dnsmasq), PXE (TFTP provided by atftpd) and finally a 9P server (u9fs; maybe in the future you can run an actual file server, like gefs, with Uglendix). ...

I just found while English is a strict SVO language, Polish is not, and makes use of it. On the example of one of Henryk Krzyżanowski’s excellent translation samples: The brass section was apparently approaching. Orkiestra dęta najwyraźniej się zbliżała. But, as it appeared to me this morning, if we change ’the’ into ‘a’, the natural translation would differ by order: A brass section was apparently approaching. Najwyraźniej zbliżała się orkiestra dęta. ...