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April 20, 2023

Helloooooo nerds!

Lots of fancy-shmancy, nerdy goings-on happening here at The Lunduke Journal of Tech.

New Monthly PDFs Available

Every month, all of the Tech articles — the free ones and the exclusive ones — are pulled together into a monthly, DRM-free, ad-free PDF magazine. You can download them, back them up, print them out, or read them on any device you like. It’s awesome.

You can now grab the last 14 PDF issues — including the March, 2023 issue — right from the PDF magazine download page.

Next Founding Member Hangout Scheduled

We do regular video hangouts here — just for Founding Member and Lifetime Subscribers. These are a chance for a bunch of us nerds to hang out and chat about whatever nerdy thing we feel like. Casual, not recorded, not scripted.

The next Founding Member video hangout is going to take place on Saturday, April 29th at 2pm Central time.

Everyone who is a Founding Member or Lifetime Subscriber will get an email with a link to the video chat the morning before the chat.

Hanging out on Locals and Substack Notes

I’m currently test driving the new social media platform from Substack: Notes.

If you have a Substack account that is subscribed to The Lunduke Journal, you can go to Substack.com/Notes and you’ll automatically see posts from me (and I’ll be able to see posts from you as well).

Right now Substack Notes is in very early days — it remains to be seen if it will be an awesome platform going forward. But, for the moment, I’m having a good time experimenting with it and watching what happens. Feel free to join me!

And, of course, you can always hang out with me (and the rest of the community) over on Lunduke.Locals.com.

The Big Sunday The Show is rocking

Have you listened to the latest episode of Lunduke’s Big Sunday Tech Show yet?

Because you should. It’s awesome. Best gosh darned tech show out there.

Take a listen to Hour 1 and Hour 2 of this week’s show (also available on Locals). You’re welcome.

-Lunduke

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Lifetime "Solaris" Wall almost full!

Just a quick heads up that the 7th “Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall”, aka “The Solaris Wall”, is almost full!

The Solaris Wall has enough space for maybe 6 or 7 more names (depending on name length)… before we lock it down and move on to Wall Number 8 (which will be another retro computing platform).

Hard to say how long until the Solaris Wall is full… but no more than a few days. These things fill up fast.

First come, first served.

Huge thank you to every subscriber. The Lunduke Journal wouldn’t be possible without you. You rule.

-Lunduke

 
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Last call for the "Amiga" Lifetime Subscriber Wall. It's almost full!

Holy smokes, that was fast.

The 6th Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Wall (aka the “Amiga OS 3.1” Wall) was introduced… what… a week ago?

I kid you not, the darn thing is already almost full! I was wildly unprepared for how popular this would be!

There’s enough space left for maybe 5 or 6 more names. Tops. Then I’ve gotta declare “Wall 6 (Amiga) is Full” and start Wall Number 7!

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If you want to get onto the Lifetime Subscriber Wall (and have any chance of making it onto the Amiga Wall before it’s full) here’s what you need to do (and do it quickly):

  1. Grab a Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal (if you don’t already have one).

    1. A Lifetime Sub includes all the standard perks (plus a few) and can be picked up via Locals, Substack, or Bitcoin (whichever you prefer).

  2. Email “bryan at lunduke.com” and let me know how you would like your name displayed (“Joe A.”, “Joseph Arnold”, “JoeyPants”, “SirJJMcManly”, etc.)

It’s first come, first served.

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“Lifetime Wall 7” will be unveiled after the final name is added to the Amiga Wall. And, yes, it will be a different (awesome) retro computing platform.

As always, a huge thank you to every subscriber to The Lunduke Journal. Absolutely none of this would be possible without your support.

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Hello all of you amazing Lunduke Journal subscribers!

With March now behind us, I wanted to give you crazy kids a quick “behind the scenes” look at the stats for The Lunduke Journal. Because Inside Baseball stuff is fun.

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But before we dive into charts and numbers… behold! The brand new 6th Lifetime Subscriber Wall of Shame Awesomeness! The AmigaOS 3.1 Wall!

 

Every Lifetime Subscriber Wall (which I show at the end of each video) is a real screenshot from a different computing platform. Mostly retro. All awesome.

 

If you’d like to see your name listed on the new AmigaOS 3.1 wall, grab a Lifetime Subscription (if you don’t already have one) and toss me an email. I update the walls about once each week with new names.

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The big news: Total “views” were way, way up in March.

A fair bit beyond what was anticipated. A hair over 19 million during the month.

 

That’s in total, across all platforms. As usual, the audio podcast and X lead the way in terms of total views/listens for shows (by quite a lot).

Interestingly, we saw significant “views” growth on even the smallest platforms in March (Facebook and TikTok).

Free subscribers also took a major jump in March, with the largest one month gains ever (I’m pretty sure, certainly the largest this year or last). Up 7,623 over the month before.

 

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As always, a huge thank you to all of The Lunduke Journal subscribers. You make all of this possible.

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