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Lunduke Journal April Wrap-up
A commitment to no ads, live streaming on the way, & April PDF Magazine.
April 30, 2023

April was an awesome month here at The Lunduke Journal. And the month ahead is shaping up to be even better.

Here’s a quick end-of-the-month wrap up: The new monthly PDF is available, Lunduke’s favorite articles from April, Live-streaming coming to The Big Sunday Tech Show… and The Lunduke Journal is now the tech publication with the least amount of ads or promotions (by far).

Which is rad.

No Ads. And only one day of promotion per month.

The Lunduke Journal is pretty gosh darned unique in the Tech Publication world:

  • We never run any advertisements

  • We never take a single penny from Big Tech

Cool, right? It means we are never influenced by any tech company. Let’s take that a step further by standardizing on this:

  • No promos in all podcasts

  • Minimal links at the end of all articles

  • Only have promotions or sales one day per month

In fact, if you’ve been listening to the recent podcasts (and the Big Sunday Show), you know that there are already almost zero bits of promotion in Lunduke Journal shows. Which is awesome.

In essence, The Lunduke Journal now has less of anything “promotion-y” than any major Tech Publication (or YouTube Channel… or Podcast…) in existence. And that is all thanks to all of you amazing subscribers. You’ve made this possible.

This was inspired by the absolute onslaught of advertisements we get bombarded with when reading most tech news sites. Overlays, banner ads, pop up ads… ads covering more of my screen than the actual articles. It’s insane. And it seems like most of the big podcasts and YouTube Tech channels aren’t much better. Let’s make The Lunduke Journal a sanctuary… a place where we can not be bombarded with 300 ads on every page.

Last Day of the Month: Lifetime Sub deal is beck for a day!

Only one day of sales or promotions? For a whole month?! Oh, boy. Well, shoot. Better make it good then!

Just for one day — April 30th — we’re temporarily bringing back the Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscription… for $160.

A “Lifetime Subscription” comes with the same perks and benefits as the Founding Member Subscription… for life. Pay once… get full access every part of The Lunduke Journal (including Locals and Substack, all of the downloads)… forever. No need to ever pay again. Which is nifty.

To get a Lifetime Subscription:

  1. Go to Lunduke.Locals.com/support.

  2. Choose "Give Once".

  3. Enter "$160" (or more) in the amount field.

  4. You will then receive an email within 24 hours with details once your Lifetime account is all setup.

This is only available today — April 30th. Tomorrow, May 1st? The deal is gone.

There we go. Boom. There’s one sale for the month. Now enjoy the ad-free Lunduke Journal.

April PDF Magazine Available!

The April edition of The Lunduke Journal of Technology PDF magazine is now available for download!

97 pages of DRM-free nerdines! Every article published during April. Download it. Back it up. Read it on whatever devices — using whatever software — you like! The way it was meant to be.

The Big Sunday Tech Show live streaming starting soon!

The Big Sunday Tech Show is humming right along! Two hours, every Sunday, of solid nerdiness.

And now, the next stage of The Big Sunday Tech Show is getting ready to hit… live streaming. Starting soon, there will be a regular Sunday live stream for the Sunday Show for those who would like to tune in as it is recorded!

Details will be sent out to all subscribers in the days ahead!

Lunduke’s Favorite Articles from April

There was a whole lot of good stuff happening during April — and here are my 6 favorite pieces (not including The Big Sunday Show):

  1. Microsoft & Google: "You'll have no real computers, and you'll be happy"

  2. The era of ad supported services is coming to an end (and that's a good thing).

  3. Why is Firefox called Firefox?

  4. Mozilla, OSI, & the memory-holing of Computer History

  5. The "Big Three" Linux companies ranked by Revenue, Employees, Kernel Contributions

  6. The Rust Foundation goes to war against people using the word "Rust"

Links for various Lunduke Journal stuff

There are oodles of places to get The Lunduke Journal of Technology. Here’s a few of them. Because links are handy.

That’s all for now! Thank you to everyone for a great April!

-Lunduke

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