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Make Computers Fun Again - Linux, UNIX, Alternative Operating Systems, Computer History, and Retro Computing. Also dad jokes.
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Bryan Lunduke@Lunduke
August 06, 2020
My original Nintendo Entertainment System box.
The one I got when this was new in the mid '80s. When I was a kid.
Beaten to heck. Been repaired (poorly) many times over. Doesn't smell great.
But it's wonderful.
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Window Shopping for Retro Computers
It's been a long week. Let's browse pictures of Retro Battlestations. TRS-80, OS/2 Warp, 486 DX2-66, Osborne 4, Commodore 64 SX, Sweet Roland Synths and more.
00:28:39
New California Law: Digital Stores Cannot Say "Buy" When They Mean "License"
Tired of "buying" software only to realize you merely have a "license" that can be taken away? A new law in California will allow fines for companies that do this for digital goods (including games, music, and movies).
00:12:50
The futility of Ad-Blockers
Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.
It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.
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openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"
Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.
Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣
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For those following the happenings with the Godot project:
I have spoken with multiple individuals involved -- including the Godot Foundation Board.
The Godot Foundation will be issuing an official statement tomorrow (Monday), followed by a full report on The Lunduke Journal.
thanks @sdloveless for the previous post of "Bell Systems Letters and Memos"
I hit upon this, in effect, Operator's Manual... literally, the instructions for operators at the phone company from August 1950.
Anyone building a database information system would do well to examine this closer. It has the details of how they make best use of people's talents to efficiently search and extract (query) data from this distributed (sharding) database of paper listings with clear labels (indexes), multi-levels of sub-sets of listings (cache) based on frequently-changing or frequently-requested numbers, monitoring effectiveness (cache-hits, dirty-cache), self-healing data correction with feedback systems, service level tiers, working memory of operator, user-interaction (HMI).....
having worked that complex telephone operators data system out effectively given the constraints of the technology meant they really had to think and adjust and engage the actual operators doing their jobs and seek ...
Here is a program for OS/2. The company lasted for of 20 years, until the founder died. Interesting company. Enjoy.
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/sundial-systems-relish
The Lunduke Journal Affiliate Program
Earn 50% per subscription.
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- A monetization option which has absolutely nothing to do with Big Tech?
Well, buckle up, Buttercup. Because The Lunduke Journal Affiliate Program is available to anyone -- bloggers, YouTubers, Podcasters, developers, user group leaders, or simply Social Media users -- who would like to get paid for promoting The Lunduke Journal.
How it works is simple:
- Send potential new subscribers to The Lunduke Journal using a custom URL.
- If that person purchases a paid subscription using your link, you get 50% of the subscription revenue for the first year of the subscription.
Not joking. You and The Lunduke Journal split the subscriptions. 50/50.
How To Become an Affiliate
Interested? Here's how to become an Affiliate:
- Create an account on Lunduke.Locals.com (free or paid).
- Email "bryan at Lunduke.com" with the subject "Lunduke Journal Affiliate Request", and include following details:
- The email address you use with your Locals.com account.
- A brief description of where you plan to promote The Lunduke Journal (blog, social media, YouTube, Rumble, podcast, forums, sky writing, etc.). Include a link if applicable.
That's it! If you are approved to be part of The Lunduke Journal Affiliate Program, you will be contacted via email -- which will include your affiliate link (which you will use to send potential subscribers to The Lunduke Journal).
Affiliate Program Details
Here's all the details.
- You earn 50% of every referred subscription for 12 months.
- Example 1: A Monthly Subscription ($6) will earn you $3 per month, for 12 months (for a total of $36 over the year).
- Example 2: A Yearly Subscription ($54) will earn you $27 right up front.
- Seriously. 50%. You split the subscription evenly with The Lunduke Journal.
- Payouts happen automatically -- handled entirely by Locals -- at the end of every month and are deposited via Stripe.
- You don't need to be a big podcast or blog in order to take advantage of this. Each request to join the Affiliate Program is considered on a case by case basis.
- Participation in the Affiliate Program can be terminated at any time, should the need arise (such as if the Affiliate misrepresents The Lunduke Journal in some extreme way -- I don't anticipate needing to exercise this, but it's worth mentioning).
- There is an absolute mountain of free material and subscriber exclusive perks (articles, videos, PDF eBooks, and more) which can be used to promote The Lunduke Journal.
If you have any additional questions, simply email "bryan at Lunduke.com".
Lunduke Journal Subscriber Perks (Shows, Articles, Books, & More)
Plus: A massive archive of free, publicly available articles and videos.
Subscribing to The Lunduke Journal brings with it some seriously awesome benefits:
- Access to The Lunduke Journal Content Archive (a massive searchable, sortable archive of every article, video, and PDF published).
- A large (and growing) collection of exclusive videos.
- A collection of DRM-free PDF eBooks and magazine issues.
- Some free (and very goofy) video games (for Linux, DOS, & Windows).
- Plus full access to The Lunduke Journal community site at Lunduke.Locals.com.
- And, of course, the warm & fuzzy feelings you get by supporting the last bastion of truly independent Tech Journalism.
What follows are direct links to many of the subscriber exclusive videos, books, & games.
Continue scrolling past that for an absolutely massive archive of free, publicly available articles and shows to get you started on your Lunduke Journal journey.
Subscriber Exclusive Videos
- The Complete History of Linux (abridged)
- programmers_are_evil()
- They're Watching You
- Awesome Masculinity, Computers, & You
- The Internet of Things is Going to Destroy Us All
- Linux is Freaking Weird
- The Internet of Things is Going to Destroy Us All
- Maybe the Internet Wasn't Such a Great Idea
DRM-Free PDF Books for Subscribers
- Lunduke’s Dad Jokes About Computers
- Lunduke’s History of Computers - Volume 1
- Lunduke’s History of Computers - Volume 2
- “Road-Sign Hank & the Aliens" Issues #1 & #2
- "Linux for Hank" (Children's book about Linux)
- Half a Decade of Linux-y Shenanigans (570 pages of Lunduke's Network World articles between 2012 and 2017)
- Lunduke’s Big Book of Nerdy Satire - Volume 1
- Lunduke’s Big Book of Nerdy Satire - Volume 2
- “Paper Doll Tux” (The Linux mascot... as a paper doll... seriously.)
- “Operating System Not Found” (A nerdy Choose Your Own Adventure tale)
Free Video Games for Subscribers
- Linux Tycoon 3 - The OS Wars (for Linux & DOS)
- Linux Tycoon Classic (for Linux & Windows)
- Linux Tycoon Classic (for DOS)
- 2299: Episode One (for Linux & Windows)
The Massive Free Lunduke Journal Archive
Looking for a particular video or article? Below you will find a sampling of Lunduke Journal content, all of which is free for the world to enjoy (subscribers and non-subscribers alike).
The following list is nowhere near complete -- and is being added to every single week. If you're looking for a searchable, sortable index of every article and show, you'll want to go to The Lunduke Journal Content Archive at Lunduke.Locals.com/content (which is an added benefit for Lunduke Journal subscribers).
Lunduke Journal Exclusive Articles
(You won't find these stories covered anywhere else.)
- Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
- The IBM / Red Hat Leaks
- The Wiki Piggy Bank - Wikimedia grows rich as Wikipedia donations are used for political causes
- Linux Foundation now spends only 2% of their revenue on Linux
- 70% of companies on the Linux Foundation Board are GPL violators
- GNOME Foundation hires "Professional Shaman" as new Executive Director
- The GNOME 5 Year plan: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Nonexistent PowerPoint Slides
- Google Drive censors files of Pfizer whistleblower
- The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself
- MS-DOS 4.0 Source Code Fails to Compile
- Red Hat vs Hyprland: Silencing political "undesirables"
- The Internet Archive Loses Appeal. As Expected.
- Is the GNOME Foundation Going to Go Bankrupt in 1 Year?
- The Worst Part of Open Source: The Community
- Pop!_OS Lead: Linux Developers are “Patronizing Pedantic Megalomaniacs”
- Remember when "GIMP" was declared an offensive name, and it was forked? What ever happened to that?
- Yet Another Lawsuit Against IBM for Racial Discrimination
- Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
- GNOME Foundation Helps The Lunduke Journal Hit Record Subscription Numbers
- Mozilla Faces Financial Uncertainty After Google Loses Lawsuit
- Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong Old SNL Sketch
- Is Intel No Longer a Safe Place for Jews? New Lawsuit Details.
- Netflix managers "will not hire this white guy because we have too many white people"
- GNOME Ousts Elected Board Member in Secret... and Tells Nobody for 2 Months
- GNOME bans Manjaro Core Team Member for uttering "Lunduke"
- Open Source AI Definition: Not Open, Built by DEI, Funded by Big Tech
- Editor of OSNews calls for the murder of a Conservative, Jewish Tech Journalist
- Fedora (Red Hat) Holds "Diversity" Event. Nobody Shows Up
- GNOME's Shaman Departs as Executive Director after 9 Months on the Job
- Mozilla Firefox Goes Anti-Privacy, Pro-Advertising
- Microsoft Lays Off Some DEI Staff, Keeps DEI Policies
Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1 Million from GitHub Founder
Don't wave the LGBT flag? SUSE & openSUSE says you are "Rotten Flesh"
Elementary OS & Asahi Linux declare war on "Right Wing" nerds
NixOS commits a "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder
Ladybird Web Browser Developer Attacked by Unhinged, Dishonest Activists
- Mozilla Firefox blocks anti-Censorship and pro-Privacy extensions in Russia
- The CIA, NSA, and Pokémon Go
- Google Drive censors files of Pfizer whistleblower
- The GNOME 5 Year plan: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Nonexistent PowerPoint Slides
Lunduke Journal Computer History Articles
- Microsoft's Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II
- The (very real) history of :-)
- Myth: Bill Gates said "640k ought to be enough for anybody"
- The True History of vi (and vim)
- The History of the Graphical User Interface -- 1945 to 1980
- Who is the (real) first Computer Programmer?
- Myth: "HTML was invented by Tim Berners-Lee"
- Browsing the World Wide Web via E-Mail -- 1990's Style
- Wendin-DOS : The forgotten multi-tasking, multi-user DOS clone from the 1980s
- The story of the 1991 HP DOS Palmtop
- Quick and Dirty: The story of 86-DOS & MS-DOS
- Who really coined the term 'Open Source'?
- The Fork Bomb: What it is, how it works, and where it originated
- Aug 9, 1991: The First E-Mail... FROM SPACE
- Remembering MUD1 - The first multiplayer role playing game on the Internet
- The story of the first "computer bug"... is a pile of lies.
- The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
- Traf-O-Data: The company before "Microsoft"
- W: The Window System before X... that nobody seems to remember
- The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web
- The History of BSD - Part 1 (1974 - 1989)
- The History of the First Computer Shell
- Intel 8008: The wild tale of the first 8-Bit CPU
- The Story of Otrona -- The Colorado Computer Company of the early 1980s.
- Why is Firefox called Firefox?
- Who (really) created the "Byte"?
- The History of Ctrl-Alt-Delete
- The creator of UNIX built a Trojan Horse which let him log in to any UNIX machine
- The Definitive History of Screensavers: 1961 - 1990
- 1950s Sci-Fi Style Computers, Powered by a Z80, Built in Holland
Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (ported to Mac... and Atari ST)
Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977's West Coast Computer Faire
- The very first interview about Linux with Linus Torvalds - Oct 28, 1992
- Browsing the World Wide Web via E-Mail -- 1990's Style
- Microsoft's Biggest Product in 1980: the Z-80 SoftCard for the Apple II
Other Very Nerdy Articles
- Watch the planes in the sky near you... from your Linux terminal.
- Mount a drive image from a remote server... on DOS.
- Happy Blue Screen of Death Day!
- 6 cool looking top (& htop) alternatives
- Instantly Become an Elite Movie Hacker
Lunduke Journal Regular Shows
- Oracle, Microsoft, BlackRock Building Dystopian AI Future
- The Next Kings of Linux: Shannon & Steve
- Nextcloud Releases Version 9 of Self-Hosting Platform
- MIT Uses AI Chatbots to Brainwash You
- Exploding Pagers & The Case for a Secure Supply Chain
- EFF: Calling for Genocide of Jews is OK, but Republicans Protesting is a Crime
- Google AI Notebook Turns Documents into Fake Podcasts with Fake Hosts Having Fake Discussions
- FreeCAD 1.0: The Most Important Linux Release of 2024
- Internet Archive Takes Another Step Towards Death
- The Self-Destruction of Open Source Software
- Mozilla Bets the Future of the Web is A.I. Generated Content
- The Worst Part of Open Source: The Community
- The Register Runs Cover for CIA-Backed Smartphone Game
- A.I. Now Convincingly Replicates a Person's Handwriting... and it's Just as Creepy as it Sounds.
- The Specific Charges Against the Telegram CEO
- Is A.I. Programming Really the Future?
- Zuck Regrets Censoring Facebook at Request of Democrats
- Pop!_OS Lead: Linux Developers are “Patronizing Pedantic Megalomaniacs”
- Procreate Dev: "I really BEEPing hate generative AI"
- Yet Another Lawsuit Against IBM for Racial Discrimination
- Total Linux Desktop PCs Now Over 56 Million
- Inclusivity Activists are Destroying Open Source
- Python Bans Prominent Dev for Enjoying the Wrong SNL Sketch
- Is This The End of Mozilla? If So, Is That a Bad Thing?
- Intel Assigns Jewish Israeli Employee to Manager Who Publicly Calls for His Murder
- New Downsizing from Dell, Intel Push 2024 Tech Layoffs Over 150,000
- Netflix managers "will not hire this white guy because we have too many white people"
- Python is 71x Slower, Uses 75x More Energy, Than C
- Wine Fixes Bugs in Windows 3.1 Software Running on Linux
- Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - July 31, 2024
- Official GNOME Policy: Link to Lunduke, Get Banned
- Lunduke Does Not Ban Any Tech Organization or News Outlet
- GNOME Ousts Elected Board Member in Secret, Tells Nobody for 2 Months
- GNOME bans Manjaro Core Team Member for uttering "Lunduke"
- Open Source AI Definition: Not Open, Built by DEI, Funded by Big Tech
- Editor of OSNews calls for the Murder of a Conservative, Jewish Tech Journalist
- Fedora (Red Hat) Holds Diversity Event. Nobody Shows Up
- Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - July 10, 2024
- The Only Tech News Outlet Covering the Woke Tech Activists
- Tech Journalist publicly hopes for another assassination attempt on President Trump
- GNOME Shaman Out as Executive Director After 9 Months on the Job
- Firefox: The Data Collection, Advertising Browser
- No. Microsoft Did Not Lay Off All DEI Staff.
- Don't get cocky: CrowdStrike can happen to Linux & Mac too
- Watch Out Firefox & Chrome: Here Comes Ladybird
- NixOS commits "purge" of "Nazi" contributors, forces abdication of founder
- Crazy Tech People Who Hate Lunduke - Part II
- Ladybird Web Browser Developer Attacked by Unhinged, Dishonest Activists
- How much RAM will you need in 5 years?
- Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - June 26, 2024
- Open Source is not Socialism (or Communism)
- IBM Sued by State of Missouri for Racist Hiring Practices
- Connecting the Dots: What the Heck is Happening at Mozilla?
- Mozilla Sued for Discrimination by CEO-To-Be
- Internet Archive: The Largest Software Piracy Website
- Lunduke's Live Apple WWDC 2024 Keynote Coverage
- Mozilla's War on the Open Internet
- Open Source A.I. Definition to include Closed, Secret Data
- Mozilla Caves to Criticism, Unblocks Firefox Extensions in Russia
- Lunduke reads YouTube Comments
- The GNOME 5 Year plan: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Nonexistent PowerPoint Slides
- EFF says: Don't stop kids from looking at porn!
- In the Hotseat: Black Python Devs Founder
- Lunduke's Nerdy Q & A - May 23, 2024
- End of the Internet? Dead Internet Theory + Disappearing Content = Rut Roh
- The Future of Computing: A.I. and Advocacy. ...Seriously?
- The Open Source Community is Neither "Open" nor a "Community"
- Titus in the Hotseat on "Lunduke: The Alex Jones of Linux"
- What the Fart is a Byte?
- Did Lunduke just scare The Register off Twitter?
- The Register spins to protect Red Hat in discrimination lawsuit
"Linux Sucks" Shows (in order)
- 2009 - "Linux Sucks"
- 2011 - "Linux Sucks"
- 2012 - "Linux Sucks (as usual)"
- 2012 - "Linux Does Not Suck (not even a little)"
- 2013 - "Linux Sucks"
- 2013 - "Linux Doesn't Suck"
- 2014 - "Linux Sucks"
- 2015 - "Windows is AWESOME"
- 2016 - "Linux Sucks"
- 2016 - "Linux Sucks: The Commentary Track"
- 2017 - "Linux Sucks... for the last time"
- 2018 - "Linux Sucks. Forever."
- 2019 - "Linux Sucks: The Lost Recordings"
- 2020 - "Linux Sucks"
- 2021 - "Linux Sucks: The End of Linux is Nigh"
- 2022 - "Linux Sucks: This time it's personal."
- 2023 - "macOS Sucks"
- 2024 - "This is going to suck more than anything has sucked before."
