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October 13, 2022

In #terminal week, allow me to share my settings.
It's odd, but I actually feel uncomfortable using other thing than not terminal.
After years getting used to this settings, and way of doing things, of creating and detaching a tmux session, and them reattaching it in mt PDA or wherever I am, or in any laptop, as long it has a network connection and my SSH key, for any of both environments: desktop and development.
Here's some of the reasons why I don't intend to go back (or forward, or whatever):

  • It all runs in a server; it may even be a VPS;
  • The client can be a really low spec ARM, with 129M (probably less?) RAM;
  • I try to audit the most of this software I can,so I get to know where I am trusting my personal an professional data -- not saying I'm safe, but it's good to know we can look at it, and put a wireshark on it, that mostly stays silent;
  • Some of my RAM already delivered me the papers for retirement to a better computer;
  • It's always the same environment, regardless of at what computer I'm at -- and during the day I change a bit of places;
  • Updates? Yeah! A lot: In newsboat 2-3x/day to keep up with what's happening.
  • Really low network transfers (1M per session?), what makes really cheap mobile data plans;
  • Is this hackable? Who on earth wants this data?!
    Most of the stuff I use has been already mentioned in this excellent group:

    Desk

  • Mutt (e-mail);
  • calcurse (agenda);
  • finch (chat);
  • toxic (some conversation are better not to stay in any log in any server);
  • vit (taskwarrior);
  • elinks (love it to get quick answers on the web, without the train of cookies to accept, the outstanding web of ads); lynx is great as well, but I prefer this one;
  • browsh (browse) - Not really used this far, but it's good to have a solution that render a page with more detail, using terminal;

    Develop

  • VIM - What else?!
  • A lot of useful VIM Plugins like NerdTree; FZF; ULTISnips; tagbar; airline;
  • Eclim - love this plugin that bridges Eclipse perfectly;
  • Elinks - great for quick stack overflow doubts;
    Now, on the other side: it gives me a panic attack when I need to load Android Studio, XCode, or do anything in Brave; Windows, or anything that was built having the mouse, the RAM, GPU, and the user's wallet in mind.
    If you see anything useful in this setup, feel free to ask! I can share some of the configs used.
    :-)
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PCMag: "Here's an Award! Now Pay Us $10K!"

Paint.NET was given an award by PCMag. Just one catch: The developer can't show people unless he pays PCMag. The Tech Journalism world is dirty.

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November 12, 2026
The Register's Journalist Melts Down: Attacks Christians, Says XLibre Dev Kills Kids

The Register's FOSS Tech Journalist says GhostBSD is "fascist", suggests that Christians are "goatf**kers", blocks Lunduke for quoting him.

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00:15:20
November 11, 2026
LCOS 1.0.1 Adds More Hardware Support

The first point update to the Lunduke Computer Operating System adds support for the latest Dell XPS laptops and more.

LCOS Downloads and FAQ:
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00:21:18
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.

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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! 🤣

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

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"Andreas Kling creator of Serenity OS & Ladybird Web Browser" - Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - September 13th, 2023 - Ep 044
November 11, 2026
November 11, 2026

A microsoft engineer created a 1 bit LLM, only plus and minus, multiplication, that runs fast on consumer grade AMD hardware.

It is constantly being updated and has an online demo.

The secret here is that the billions or parameters in the pretrained LLM are all 1, 0 or - 1. This reduces overhead by up to 80%. For simple tasks like web summaries, it will run well on a laptop without draining the battery or the wallet.

What do you think?

https://blog.gopenai.com/is-bitnet-cpp-the-game-changer-for-running-llms-on-your-laptop-13ae85b536f4

https://github.com/microsoft/bitnet

We're doing another Retro Gaming week over on the forum. Please join in. Post here if you're not on the forum.

Retro Gaming week starts 12:01am (whatever your local time is) November 14th, and runs until 11:59pm November 22nd. Any games published prior to 2003, on any platform.

https://forum.lunduke.com/t/retro-gaming-week-v2/5530

October 28, 2026
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3 Days Left to get your name into LCOS 1.0’s About Window!

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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October 17, 2026
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LCOS 1.0 Ships on November 1st!

A release date has officially been selected!

The Lunduke Computer Operating System (LCOS) 1.0 will ship on November 1st… just two weeks from now!

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.

-Lunduke

 
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October 13, 2026
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LCOS 0.9.3 has Landed! Plus: How to Help.

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.

-Lunduke

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