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Quick 25% off sale to pay for a new Lunduke Journal production laptop!

Dude. Awesome. We're half way (just a hair over) to paying for the new production laptop for The Lunduke Journal. Not bad!

To push us over the line, I'm doing a quick sale. Just 24 hours. Ends tomorrow night.

All types of Subscriptions are 25% off. Both the standard Annual subscription and the Annual Founding Member Subscription.

Not a crazy-huge discount but, hey, not too shabby either! Save a couple buckazoids!

This is the link:
https://lunduke.substack.com/JulyThunder

My recommendation: If you only want to subscribe on Substack... just do the annual subscription. But if you are thinking of taking part in the community here on Locals as well... might as well pick up the Founding Member one. Since then you can get both at a nice discount. (Plus the other Founding Member perks are pretty good too.)

Details on all of that is here:
https://lunduke.substack.com/about

And the full list of all the Standard Subscription perks are here:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/all-the-subscriber-benefits-for-the

Note: This will be the only post about this. No reminders (in part because I don't want to be all spammy about it.) So. You know. Clicky-clicky. šŸ˜‰

Note 2: I don't have a sale option for Locals-Only subscriptions. Because Locals doesn't doesn't have that option. This is either Substack-only or Founding Member (which includes both).

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November 10, 2025
DHH Talks to Lunduke

David Heinemeier Hansson (aka "DHH", the creator of Ruby on Rails & Omarchy Linux), talks with Lunduke about Linux "selling out", what a "distro" is, & the attacks from activists within Open Source.

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01:06:20
November 07, 2025
GNOME Declares War on Framework Computer

GNOME OS Team says Framework "supports Fascist and Racist s***heads", "does not feel comfortable in further collaboration". GNOME Board wants to talk to groups "reconsidering working with Framework".

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00:19:09
November 06, 2025
Can We Trust Rust?

Debian Linux and Ubuntu are forcing adoption of Rust at core levels of the system. Considering the large numbers of Leftist Extremist Activists among Rust developers... can that software be trusted?

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00:24:30
November 22, 2023
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.

Looking for the Podcast RSS feed or other links? Check here:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4619051/lunduke-journal-link-central-tm

Give the gift of The Lunduke Journal:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4898317/give-the-gift-of-the-lunduke-journal

The futility of Ad-Blockers
November 21, 2023
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! 🤣

Looking for the Podcast RSS feed or other links?
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4619051/lunduke-journal-link-central-tm

Give the gift of The Lunduke Journal:
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4898317/give-the-gift-of-the-lunduke-journal

openSUSE says "No Lunduke allowed!"
September 13, 2023
"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044

This episode is free for all to enjoy and share.

Be sure to subscribe here at Lunduke.Locals.com to get all shows & articles (including interviews with other amazing nerds).

"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044
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BTW - I use Arch!

Never thought i'd say that. I'm more of a Linux Mint kind of person, but Omarchy looked so interesting.

My daughter's 2013 Macbook Air - that I spent good money for as her high school graduation present - is in perfect condition. It helps that she hasn't touched it in years. But seriously, this computer is mint. It's just 12 years old and Apple stopped supporting it with OS security update a year ago.

All my Macs will eventually be Linux machines. This is the first one. The installation went flawless.

I can't tell you much yet - as the VERY first thing I did was come here to inform you all -- that I use Arch ;)

Oh, and the caps lock button doesn't work. Weird. But the screen is beautiful - I don't know if it's Arch or Omarchy, but Chrome doesn't look "Linux Fugly" like normal.

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Found a great video essay/documentary on the history of PPC. Good stuff.

November 08, 2025

Having some fun. 486 is complete. Just enjoying. I guess I should make another video and try to summarize what i did. But in the meantime, I'm playing games in DOS, using a Window 7 PC to capture that video output, then using Manjaro to capture that output. A little convoluted, but the outcome is actually pretty good. Had to get a picture of the whole ridiculous setup.

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Lunduke taking Veteran's Day off

Today, we honor our veterans and their service to our nation.

Great men, like my grandfather who, during World War II, joined the Navy at 14 years old. He was a big, older-looking teenager… so, as was not unheard of, he lied about his age on the paperwork in order to go fight the Axis.

And his father, who joined in the year leading up to the start of World War I.

I am taking this Veteran’s Day off. In part to spend time helping my children learn about their family’s US military history (which goes back, on multiple lines, to the very beginning of our nation). And in part… to watch one of the greatest movies ever made, The Great Escape. Because, hey, Steve McQueen and James Garner! Pretty sure my Grandpa would approve.

Lunduke Journal shows will resume tomorrow (and I’ve got an awesome one lined up).

In the meantime, if you haven’t watched yesterday’s DHH interview yet, highly recommended. Watch (or listen) to it anywhere you like.

And, in the grand tradition of ā€œVeterans Day Salesā€, I’ve extended the 50% off all Lunduke Journal subscriptions discount through this coming Friday. Because I can. Pretty sure my Grandpa would approve of that too.

-Lunduke

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November 06, 2025
50% off Lunduke Journal subs extended through Nov 10th

Just a quick heads up:

The Lunduke Journal has a 50% off discount on all types of subscriptions — Monthly, Yearly, and The World Famous Lifetime Subscriptions (tm). And that discount has been extended through this coming Monday (November 10th).

Just for kicks.

All of the details are right here.

Or you can always go to Lunduke.com and click the fancy-shmancy ā€œ50% offā€ link.

Here’s a map on how to find that link.

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Think of it like a treasure map. Only better. Because you don’t need to stand up and walk. Walking is hard.

-Lunduke

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November 01, 2025
$3/Month, $27/Year, $150/Lifetime for The Lunduke Journal

For those who missed it:

50% off Lunduke Journal subscriptions through Monday (Nov 3rd).

At half-off, that means the price of a full Lunduke Journal is:

  • $3 / Month (normally $6)
  • $27 / Year (normally $54)
  • $150 / Lifetime (normally $300)

No matter which subscription you choose, you get all of the perks.

Plus, Lifetime Subscribers get two extra goodies:

Pick whichever type of subscription you want, get some cool perks, feel awesome about supporting Big-Tech Free, non-Woke Tech Journalism.

-Lunduke

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