Recent content by DennisBattiscombe

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    Compliment to Cool Ideas

    What YouTube problem?
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    Compliment to Cool Ideas

    Hi All I would like to share my support experience with Cool Ideas. At around 9:30PM on Friday night my fibre went down. Orange instead of green on the router. I performed the standard procedure of powering off both devices and only powering on the router once the WAN indicator showed...
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    Most expensive products on Takealot - including Mandela artwork lithograph for R450,000

    There's this one:
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    Axiz Intel Survey - Stand a chance to win your share of R2,000 cash - Complete survey here

    Done
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    Linux for the masses - is it feasible?

    Like I said earlier, I've run Ubuntu 20.10 on ARM64 for 3 weeks. It does it's job 98% of the time. The 2% is a combination of Solarwinds/NCentral/RDP and Port Forwarding.
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    Linux for the masses - is it feasible?

    I would like to re-focus here. In entered the conversation for "Linux for the masses", not "is MacOS Linux"
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    Linux for the masses - is it feasible?

    I respect that. I really do. However, in 2004, the only over-the-counter Unix-based laptop was a Mac. I've spent over 30 years in Unix. Mac was necessary.
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    Linux for the masses - is it feasible?

    Hence building a low-cost Linux system.
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    Linux for the masses - is it feasible?

    It's BSD wearing a fancy frock.
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    Linux for the masses - is it feasible?

    Dedicated Mac user here - for the availability of zsh, bash, superior memory management and large file handling. Three weeks ago I started an experiment - I got a new RPi 4 Model B 8GB with an UHS Class 3 256GB SD to see if I can make it my daily driver. It's running Ubuntu 20.10 Desktop ARM64...
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