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The Lunduke Journal Subscription "Upgrade System (of Awesomeness)"
(Or just "The USA". Because... why not?)
October 09, 2022

Effective immediately, you can now subtract the total amount you have spent — in the current calendar year — on any Lunduke Journal subscription… towards upgrading to either of the fancier subscription levels.

Note: This is merely an extension of someone we've done in the past.  Just making it official, documenting it, and expanding it to apply to both of the fancy-shmancy subscription levels.

This is especially handy as it saves you some buckazoids, while giving you full access to both Substack and Locals (plus all the hangouts and whatnot).

It works like this:

  1. Add up the amount you’ve spent on any Lunduke Journal subscription… then subtract that from the cost of a Founding Member or Lifetime Subscription.

  2. Go to Lunduke.Locals.com/Subscription. Select “Annual” and “Card”.

  3. Enter the amount of the subscription you want (you can upgrade to either — $125 for Founding Member or $350 for Lifetime)… minus the amount you figured out in step 1.

Example: You are a regular, monthly subscriber at $5 per month. It is now October. You can subtract $50 from a Founding Member subscription, bringing the cost down to $75 for the next year for the higher level subscription. Sweet deal.

Example 2: You are a Founding Member and want that subscription to be good for the rest of your life without ever paying again. Because you are smart. So you subtract the amount you spent on the Founding Member subscription from the Lifetime price.

For a Founding Member subscription — which is annual — your new year starts right then. Which means you have, potentially, saved quite a bit of money on the next year worth of subscription.

For a Lifetime Subscription… well… you never need to pay again. And you just saved some buckazoids on that too.

Note: If you need any help determining exactly how much you have spent on Lunduke Journal subscriptions since January of the current year… simply email Lunduke ([email protected]) or send him a private message on Lunduke.Locals.com. He can look that up pretty easily.

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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

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Holy imminent operating system release, Batman!

Three things worth knowing:

  1. Saturday, October 31st is the last day to get your name into the LCOS About Window by picking up a Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscription.

  2. Saturday, October 31st is also the last day when Lifetime Subscriptions are massively discounted. (Crazy, how those two dates line up! What a coincidence!)

  3. Sunday, November 1st is the official release date for LCOS 1.0!

Want your name in the About window for the Lunduke Computer Operating System 1.0? You’ve got about 3 days left to make it happen!

Here’s what to do:

  1. Go to this page and pick up a Lifetime Subscription (aka “One Time Contribution with Lots of Perks”).

  2. Within a few hours, you’ll receive a confirmation email from yours truly with all the details.

  3. Reply to that email with how you want your name displayed in the LCOS 1.0 About Window (nick name, first name, or full name are all aok).

Just be sure complete step 3 before midnight (Central Time) on Saturday, October 31st so it definitely makes it onto the final LCOS 1.0 build! My advice? Do this by Friday, October 30th so there’s no chance you miss it!

Huge thank you to everyone who has been supporting The Lunduke Journal and LCOS! You make all of this possible!

-Lunduke

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LCOS 1.0 Ships on November 1st!

A release date has officially been selected!

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A few quick tidbits worth mentioning:

Worth repeating: If you want your name in the LCOS About Window (see the screenshot below), you only have through October 31st to grab a Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal and make that happen.

Huge thank you to everyone who has contributed with both hardware testing and financial support. We’ve had absolutely tremendous momentum over the last few months, and that wouldn’t have been possible without all of you.

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The Lunduke Computer Operating System (LCOS) is flying towards the official, 1.0 release — with version 0.9.3 now available for testing!

Between now and 1.0, LCOS is laser focused on a) fixing bugs and b) making sure it runs (and runs well) on as much hardware as possible.

Right now, LCOS needs your help. Here’s how:

  1. Test the latest LCOS release on your hardware. Hit any snags? Report them on GitHub, the Lunduke Forum, or via DM on X.

  2. Donate to LCOS (and The Lunduke Journal), so that we can expand our hardware testing lab (among other expenses).

If you haven’t already, watch the LCOS Roadmap video, to get an idea for where we’re heading (in 1.0 and beyond).

Then check out this page, for details on how to support LCOS & The Lunduke Journal (and get your name on the LCOS 1.0 About window in the process).

A huge thank you to everyone who has already contributed (in both ways)! With your help, we are making LCOS into the best gosh darned system in all the land.

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