♲ @craigmaloney@octodon.social: So Dropbox is starting to focus more on being a portal for business and less on being that big dumb syncing drive that we all want.
If I were to ditch Dropbox and start exploring other options what would be the closest to the Dropbox experience. That is: syncing files between Ubuntu and Android devices, grabbing photos off of my Android phone, and handling merge conflicts on a text file without mangling the file.
Recommendations?
Latest Linux Kernel TCP patches affecting... Steam? I am curious what the outcome is here. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Steam-Networking-Kernel-Woes
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Still cracks me up 20yrs later. "Reach for the lasers - safe as fuck"
https://youtu.be/2i7GID7Ze8c
Scott Manley, better known for Kerbal fun does a great job in simplifying Chernobyl: https://youtu.be/q3d3rzFTrLg
To go on sale in the US this month: Lenovo ThinkPad P laptops with Ubuntu.
Dell may be the best-known Linux laptop vendor right now, but Lenovo is looking to muscle in on the pre-installed Linux machine market.
Shipping Linux on high-end, premium machines like these is indicative of one thing: demand.
Lenovo is clearly hearing from its customers, from businesses, and from developers that they want LINUX out of the box.
==> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/lenovo-thinkpad-p-series-ubuntu-preinstalled
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#Lenovo #Thinkpad #Ubuntu #Linux #business
Electronic Waste Is Becoming a Global Environmental Problem | @Time@twitter.com
Do you own one of the 1.6 billion unused phones shoved into a drawer? These forgotten mobile phones are packed with valuable materials. So dig them out and start #recycling! https://bit.ly/2IezCQ9
CERN and MS licensing
https://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=CERN-Microsoft-Alternatives
JP being delightful as usual https://youtu.be/ny14qUNvjVg
https://unix50.org lets you spin up and destroy many hysterical #UNIX systems. Would you like to write some tutorials? #unix50 #vm #retro
I also just learned that store-and-forward packet switching was also referred to as "hot potato routing", which, why is it not still called that??
Here is an photo wot I tooked last week.
Taken on the Palmiet trail at the Kogelberg Nature Reserve in the Western Cape of South Africa.
Nikon D7000, Tamron 18-400mm, processed in Adobe Lightroom.
Here's The MS flight sim trailer (h/t @tomasino@mastodon.sdf.org
https://youtu.be/ReDDgFfWlS4
Enjoying a few beers this everning before realising I'm actually getting quite pissed #old
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.