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Pinstripe – Pissy The Piss Snake (Jimpressions)

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Feb 22 2018

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Poignant, clever, and creepy as all hell!

Steam link: http://store.steampowered.com/app/331480/Pinstripe/

Metal Gear Survive – It Is Shit (Jimpressions)

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Feb 22 2018

http://www.patreon.com/jimquisition
http://www.thejimquisition.com
http://sharkrobot.com/collections/Jimquisition-merch

Metal Gear Survive is here, and it’s worse than I expected.

I thought they’d at least TRY and make it feel like Metal Gear, but instead it truly is a derivative, irritating, bog-standard survival game.

There was so much rubbish to laugh at I forgot to even mention the microtransactions!

Nothing is Secure and We are All Doomed

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Feb 21 2018

There are so many insecure ways we transmit our data that — in effect — nothing is secure. And fooling ourselves into thinking otherwise is dangerous. Let me walk you through a quick list of all the highly insecure methods of data transmission that are not likely to be secured any time soon.

Audio Podcast:
http://lunduke.com/2018/02/21/nothing-is-secure-and-we-are-all-doomed

== This episode sponsored by ==

System76: https://system76.com

Pogo Linux: http://www.pogolinux.com/

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Weekly Tech News – Guest: The Linux Gamer – Feb 21, 2018

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Feb 21 2018

This is the Tech News for the week of February 21st, 2018! With special guest: The Linux Gamer! Topics include: FreeBSD’s ban on virtual hugs continues, the patent on MPEG-2 has expired, Google and Microsoft weaponizing security vulnerabilities against each other, game companies (Nintendo, EA, Ubisoft, etc.) fighting against the use of abandoned online games, new study on gender equality in STEM fields, Flight simulation developer installing malware to steal passwords from Chrome, Apple handing over iCloud servers to company owned by Chinese government.

Audio Podcast:
http://lunduke.com/2018/02/21/weekly-tech-news-w-the-linux-gamer-feb-21-2018

== This episode sponsored by ==

System76: https://system76.com

Pogo Linux: http://www.pogolinux.com/

LulzBot 3D Printers: https://www.lulzbot.com/

Rambling: Resilience vs Depression + weight loss

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Feb 21 2018

This is my ‘rambling’ series, in which I just talk about life, the world, the channel, and other things. I just kind of share whats going on in my life and how I feel about it 🙂

In this video I talk about depression vs resilience and why its been so difficult to do the things like create videos or stream the last few months.

I also talk about the weight loss, and give you a weight loss update after meeting with my surgeon a few days back 🙂

EzeeLinux Show 18.10 | XBT 2 2, Ubuntu Wants Info and I Don’t Do Windows!

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Feb 20 2018

XBT 2.2 is out, Ubuntu Want’s Info from you and why I don’t do Windows…. EVER!

OMG! Ubuntu Article: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/ubuntu-data-collection-opt-out

Please be sure to give EzeeLinux a ‘Like’ on Facebook! Thanks! https://www.facebook.com/EzeeLinux
Check out http://www.ezeelinux.com and http://www.freedompenguin.com for more about Linux.

Paladins Fans Protest ‘Pay-To-Win’ Loot Boxes With Hilarious Low-Effort Fan Art

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Feb 20 2018

Cards Unbound has not proven popular among the Paladins fanbase. They protested it the only way they know how – terrible artwork!

Thanks to Seth for the tip!

My @elementary Review. #Linux

Posted in Andy Rants by goodolandy

Feb 20 2018

Disclaimer:
I have been using Linux for almost 10 years but I am in no way an expert with the Linux operating system. On a scale from beginner to expert, I consider myself closer to the beginner side of the scale.

Elementary Linux is a fairly decent IF you are a former Mac user, otherwise you may find yourself reformatting your hard drive and installing something else.

I have used a Mac on and off when a customer shows up with one for me to repair but I have never been a fan of the desktop theme. To me, the single left click to launch stuff and Apples over use of the colour grey plus the top task bar becoming a menu bar for each program is irritating.

Elementary does not come with LibreOffice or any office suite which I found strange since every other distribution I have tried have always came with an office suite.

For the Mac lovers, you get your single left click, a mostly grey theme and of course, the beloved dock bottom centre of the desktop.

People like myself who prefer double left click, I could not find any option in the settings area to change that.

There was also no theme changer in the settings.

Like every other distribution, my Brother HL-2140 laser printer requires installing a driver downloaded directly from the Brother website. The default driver that is always selected by Linux distributions does nothing but cause the printer to spit out blank pages endlessly. It would be great to see the actual Brother driver get added and remove the current drivers that come up for this printer. I should also note that unlike other distributions, Elementary doesn’t allow you to change a printer driver or if it does, the option is hidden from the average user.

The supplied mail program is decent, being along the same lines as Thunderbird and Outlook Express just without the same polished look.

Elementary doesn’t appear to come with any kind of desktop widgets.

It does come with a really nice notepad type program called Scribble and at first I got a little frustrated trying to find the button to save an already named file but eventually I found out that this nice little word processor automatically saves as you type. An awesome feature in my books and would love to see more word processors incorporate this feature.

Well there you go, a review from someone who is not a Linux export but rather a more average desktop user. Once again, if you are coming from Mac, you will like Elementary but if you are coming from Windows, stay away.

Linux TLP and PowerTOP Walk-Through – Just Ask Matt

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Feb 19 2018

Linux TLP and PowerTOP Walk-Through. I recently had a YouTube comment asking me to give them a walk-through of what TLP does and how to make it work. Today, I do this in addition to pointing out how to track TLP benefits using PowerTOP.

+Support the Show – https://www.patreon.com/freedompenguin

Show notes:
Create a PowerTOP HTML page (renders in your operating directory; Home for example. In the terminal, do sudo powertop –html

Run auto-tune with powertop (disables USB mice, so be aware).
sudo powertop –auto-tune

Enable or disable a bad/good setting in Tunables with the spacebar.

Non-destructive viewing of the tlp settings without using sudo.
nano /etc/default/tlp

Pt 2 – What’s Holding #Linux Back? @matthartley @bryanlunduke

Posted in Andy Rants by goodolandy

Feb 19 2018

I had no plan to make a part two of my personal opinion on what is holding Linux back from becoming mainstream but I realized I forgot a couple other things so here they are.

TV Tune/Capture Cards:

When I was first introduced to Linux, I was using the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon video card which was also a TV Tuner card. Unfortunately for me, there was (and last time I checked) still no support for internal video/TV Tuner capture cards. Years later I upgraded to an Nvidia card and a Diamond ATI Theater HD 750 capture PCI-E card. Of course, it worked great in Windows XP but not in Linux. I even tried that card again in summer of 2017 and still no Linux support which is extremely frustrating. What is worst is that this card was sold in both North America and Europe based on the fact that the card uses the European style coaxial connector with a converter to allow the connection of North American coaxial connector. I would have expected a device sold in Europe to have Linux support given how Linux Desktop appears to be more popular outside of North America.

I feel the Linux community could greatly benefit from a web store devoted to only Linux supported hardware or a team that can get internal tuner cards to finally work. I am aware of the linuxtv.org site for Linux tuner devices but the categories can be confusing to someone like myself who doesn’t have in-depth knowledge of the hardware/chip set of the device.

Accounting Software:

In the Linux Desktop world, there are two main accounting programs, GNU Cash and Xtuple. GNU Cash is devoted to lawyers and Xtuple is devoted to manufacturers. What about everyone else? Is there anything for them? NOPE! Sure, you could use Quickbooks Online but with so many companies being hacked these days, can a business really trust that Intuit will keep your business and clients data secured, especially given how much Intuit loves Windows? I for one would not be surprised if Intuit online services are being run on and your data saved to a Windows based server. We all know how useless Windows is at protecting your data so anyone who cares about their data won’t use Quickbooks Online.

It is times like this I wish I knew programming beyond basic HTML and PHP because creating a Quickbooks alternative for Linux would be a big game changer for the Linux Desktop. Xtuple could release a version of their software for non-manufacturers but every time I bring it up to them, they say no. It is like they do not want the extra money they would make from so many businesses that do not really want to use Windows, and believe me, there are a lot based on my 10+ year of repairing Windows computers for home based business owners.