By request, I am making “Lifetime Subscriptions” to The Lunduke Journal once again available… but only until end of day tomorrow (Friday, December 30th). So, if you want one, chop chop.
The “Lifetime Subscription” (which runs $300) has the same benefits as the “Founding Member” subscription… with the added bonus of lasting forever. Meaning you get absolutely every perk The Lunduke Journal offers… and you never need to pay again. For life. Which is pretty cool.
Worth noting: If you are a current Monthly, Yearly, or Founding Member subscriber — you can apply the total amount you have already paid during 2022 towards your Lifetime Subscription. Good way to save some bucks. If you need assistance in figuring out how much you’ve paid for your current subscription, feel free to ask and Lunduke can look it up.
How to snag a Lifetime Subscription:
Go to the Lunduke.Locals.com subscription page. Select the “Annual” option, and select “Card”. Then enter the amount for a Lifetime Subscription ($300 minus anything you’ve already paid in 2022).
You will then be contacted by Lunduke to finalize setting up your account (it’s super easy).
Just be sure to do it before end of day on Friday. Because, on Friday night, I’m putting the “Lifetime Subscription” option back in the vault and it will no longer be available for folks to purchase.
This is the first and last note you’ll see about this. No reminders.
Microsoft employees chanting "Go away, Jews!" Then Microsoft employees praising the murder of Charlie Kirk. Now the Microsoft Chief Technical Officer of Azure attacks the USA & Trump.
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.
You all, I think, will be very proud of me. All of my computers in the house, other than my desktop are now running Omarchy or Open Mandriva Linux.
Microsoft is so disgusting right now that I just can't not be using Linux.
I mean I am probably one of the most hardcore Windows developers on here. I still think a lot of my points are valid, but Microsoft is just so ethically bad that I can't support them willingly. I have to use Windows at work and development focuses on it in some cases.
BUT, I have already released 3 Linux based applications of my own, and that is something I NEVER thought I would do.
DHH backing Omarchy is the kind of support I was hoping would come to a desktop Linux distro. That it is Arch and uses Hyprland just makes me smile. I of course support xlibre, but I just really like Hyprland.
Anyway, figured this crowd would find all of this as ironic as I do. Hope you all are having a rad day!
Hey @Lunduke , I pinged you on X but not sure if you'll see it, so I'll share here.
There seems to be a small uprising on Bluesky to get DHH disassociated from Ruby on Rails, if you just go on BlueCry and search DHH you'll see the discussions. Don't know if it actually has legs.
Its review season as Apple’s new iPhones and AirPods Pro Gen 3 are out in the wild. So many reviewers vying to get their content out there. And I appreciate the effort most of the time. Ok, SOME of the time.
First annoyance are “first look” reviews that add nothing of value above what was put out by Apple PR. But if “First Look” or “Unboxing” is in the title, you know what you are in for.
I save most of my ire for tech reviewers writing about photo, video or sound. These are the worst quality reviews IMNSHO. So much time wasted on technical detail and testing…by people who don’t know beans about photography, video or music.
I pay attention to photographers who take the time to use a smartphone in the field, for their work. Some talentless shutter clicker who takes the same uninspired photo using 5 different cameras, then pixel peeping to declare which one was “the winner” is useless.
Austin Mann has year in and out created some of the ...
New Lunduke Journal Sub Perks, Lifetime Price Increase Next Week
A quick update: There are some new perks for Lunduke Journal subscribers, and an upcoming price increase for new Lifetime Subscriptions (if you want one of those at the lower price, you have a couple days).
All the details below.
Lifetime Subscription Price Increase
This coming Friday (September 19th), the price of a new Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal will be increasing from $200 to $300. I wanted to give all of you a few days notice so you could grab one at the lower rate.
The prices for new Yearly and Monthly subscriptions will remain the same. No changes.
Reminder: The Lunduke Journal has phased out sales and discount promotions. The current price of a subscription is the best price.
New Perks for Lunduke Journal Subscribers
I am working on adding a few new perks for Lunduke Journal subscribers — a way of saying “Thank You” for making this work possible (while still keeping all of the articles and shows free for the world).
Note: The eBooks & Games are currently only available on Locals & Substack (due to platform features). Those perks will also become available to subscribers on X, YouTube, & Patreon next week. Stay tuned for access details.
Your name (real, or internet handle) listed in a special thanks slide at the end of new Lunduke Journal videos.
Both of these perks are 100% optional.
If you are a Lifetime Subscriber, and would like to take advantage of either (or both), simply email “bryan at lunduke.com” with the subject line “Lifetime Perk” (that part is important, I get so many emails this will help me see yours) and include a link to your X profile and/or the way you want your name to appear at the end of videos.
One of the nice parts of having Lunduke Journal follow your X account… is it will make it far easier (and more likely) for me to see your comments.
Thank You
I am working to expand all of the regular perks (books, etc.) to subscribers across all platforms (which was a little tricky, considering the differences in each platform, but I managed to figure out how to do it) — while adding a few new ones as well.
Nothing crazy, just a way of saying “Thank You”.
Seriously.
From the bottom of my heart, thank you for your support. The Lunduke Journal is only possible thanks to each and every one of you.
What’s truly crazy to me, is that most of these cases of Leftist insanity are from leaders within Open Source. These are the people running projects and representing companies.
Seriously. It’s wild.
Here are the stories of the week, presented in reverse chronological order.
All of these links are to Substack (where you can watch the video or listen to the audio podcast) — but all of these stories are available for free on every platform which The Lunduke Journal publishes to. Use whichever platform works for you.
Of those 13 stories only 2 were covered by any other Tech News outlet. Two.
And, in both of those 2 stories, The Lunduke Journal is the only Tech News outlet that covered them accurately — and without a pro-Big-Tech, Left Wing bias.
If we didn’t exist, the other 11 stories wouldn’t get told at all. How crazy is that?
If you want to be part of making The Lunduke Journal possible, consider becoming a subscriber. Lots of options, big and small. And all go directly towards daily operations.
But, heck, any type of subscription (via any platform) is appreciated! Choose whichever works best for you!
Then be sure to go to Lunduke.com and choose the platforms which are the most convenient for you to use — The Lunduke Journal publishes all over the Inter-Tubes!
And, once again, thank you to every subscriber. This work is only possible because of you. You rule.
There are some options. For both subscribing and donating. They're all on this page.
Bonus: At the bottom of this page you will find the invite link to the super-secret Lunduke Journal Discord Chat Server. This is only available for full subscribers, which makes it a nice place to hang out. No riff-raff.
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