All around the world, people are celebrating Blue Screen of Death Day.
This year's festivities, proudly sponsored by Crowdstrike and Microsoft, kicked off in the wee hours of the morning -- people from all corners of the globe simply could not wait to ring in BSOD Day 2024!
Below are pictures -- from airports and offices... to Times Square -- of how people chose to comemorate the day.
As Microsoft, Apple, Google, & many Linux Distros rush to implement Age Verification in their systems, let's walk through which Linux versions are fighting back.
OS Age Verification Status:
https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify
Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journal
Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discounted
More from The Lunduke Journal:
https://lunduke.com/
The Great Linux/BSD Display Server War(tm) continues to rage on!
Links to all the stories:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/lundukes-week-in-tech-june-14-june
Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS added to the Wall!
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ubuntu-410-joins-lunduke-journal
Get on The Wall with a Massively Discounted Lifetime Sub:
https://lunduke.substack.com/p/50-off-yearly-and-massively-discounted
More from The Lunduke Journal:
https://lunduke.com/
How much is it worth, to the maker of ChatGPT, to have control of The Rust Foundation? $600,000 apparently.
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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.
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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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The man hired to stop data centers || Michael Hill - YouTube
Just because I Iike stainless steel, doesn't mean I want a steel smelter near my house. Same with AI and data centers.
There Is A Song - Sunday Sounds
Am I a musician? No. Am I an artist? Of a kind, but closer to one whose art hangs in a fridge rather than a museum.
But there’s a song. It wouldn’t exist without me. It exists for me. It is my story, my feeling, my message.
It’s Sunday night before the first Monday of not having a job. I have a plan. I am hopeful. But am I also embarrassed? Yes. Am I scared? Yes.
So I primed Claude with material on how to best compose songs for Suno.com. Then I give my vision for the song and Claude wrote the lyrics, style and exclusions for Suno.
It is here that I review and revise as needed with or without further input from Claude.
Then it’s off to Suno where I create 4 or more versions. And then I pick out the one I like best.
https://suno.com/s/jpsYgfH3oISF056y
Here is the input I gave Claude
New song - Of Course I Am
I was fired Friday - I’ve lost jobs time and again. Even as my career trajectory keeps rising and going forward.
Am I embarrassed? Of course I am Am I scared?...
Ubuntu 4.10, C64, & BeOS Lifetime Walls are now available for Lifetime Subscribers to put their names on! Plus: Lifetime Subscriptions are massively discounted through end of June (roughly 10 days).
Remember when Linux was fast, light, and required only 64 MB of RAM?
The Lunduke Journal remembers.
Let’s celebrating those good old days by adding a new “Lifetime Subscriber Wall” of the very first version of Ubuntu (4.10), released all the way back in 2004.
This brings the total number of Lifetime Subscriber Walls up to 14 (fourteen!), with 11 Walls completely, totally filled with the names of Lunduke Journal supporters.
That’s wild!
Which means there are 3 Walls currently available to put your signature on:
Commodore 64 : Half full
BeOS R5 : 1/3rd full
Ubuntu 4.10 : Just opened
Man. Look at that Ubuntu 4.10 screenshot. So very… GNOME 2… and brown. That, right there, is how I like to remember Ubuntu.
Grabbing a Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal — and getting your name on one of the Retro Computer Lifetime Subscriber Walls — is the best way to show your support for truly independent Tech Journalism.
Grab a Lifetime Subscription (1 name on 1 Wall per Lifetime Subscription), scroll down for the links.
Then Email Lunduke (“[email protected]”) with which Retro Computer Wall you would like to appear on (and what name you would like to use).
Your name will then appear on a Wall… on both Lunduke.com & during the end of Lunduke Journal shows.
Note: These fill up crazy fast. We’re talking days, not weeks. First come, first served. If you want to get on a specific Wall, don’t dilly dally.
For the entire month of June, Lifetime Subscriptions are discounted down to $125 (regularly $300).
There are 3 different ways to pick up a Lunduke Journal Lifetime sub. All of them work great and include the same perks. Choose whichever works best for you!
Go to Lunduke.Locals.com/support.
Select “Give Once“.
Enter “125“ into the amount field.
After checking out, Lunduke will toss you an email once your account is set to full lifetime status. (This usually happens within a few hours.)
Select the “Lifetime Subscription” option.
After checking out, Lunduke will toss you an email once your account is set to full lifetime status. (This usually happens within a few hours.)
If you would also like full, Lifetime access to Lunduke.Locals.com (which is included):
Make a free account on Lunduke.Locals.com.
Email “bryan at lunduke.com” with the email address you use on both Substack and Locals (can be different email addresses).
Lunduke will toss you an email once your account is set to full lifetime status on Locals.
Bonus: Save an extra $10 with the Bitcoin option, as Bitcoin processing has fewer fees associated with it.
Make sure you have a Lunduke.Locals.com or Lunduke.Substack.com account (a free account, to either, works just fine).
Send $115 worth of Bitcoin (or more) to the following address:
bc1qyjakve8fywm8pz2v99v57yhjj0vzr2vjze6fcq
Email “bryan at lunduke.com” with the following information: What time you made the transaction, how much was sent (in Bitcoin), and the email address you use (or plan to use) on Locals.com or Substack.com.
-Lunduke
The Great Linux/BSD Display Server War(tm) continues to rage on!
This week, Valve’s SteamOS finally finished its transition to Wayland by default (demoting Xorg), a move that SteamOS had put off for the last two years. And, just a few days earlier, Slackware (the oldest actively maintained Linux distro) began officially testing XLibre as a replacement for Xorg.
The trend is clear: Xorg is being tossed into the dumpster (at the encouragement of the Xorg team and Red Hat), with Wayland and XLibre each gaining marketshare.
It will be interesting to see how these changes impact overall X11 (in general) vs Wayland marketshare… which has been staying steady at roughly 50/50, across all Linux distros, for a few years now.
This is all happening at the same time as Linux is becoming increasingly developed by AI bot, with over 10% of all code submissions to the kernel being written by AI during the previous week.
The world of Linux is changing… and changing rapidly.
Some of those changes seem great. Others are terrifying.
Sometimes… well… they are both.
The support shown to The Lunduke Journal, from all of you, continues to amaze me.
We are now up to 14 (fourteen!) Retro Computer Walls, filled with the names of Lifetime Lunduke Journal Subscribers who want to show their support to the world.
The newest walls — Commodore 64, BeOS R5, & Ubuntu 4.10 (the first Ubuntu release) — are now available for you to add your John Hancock to.
Here are the major stories from the last week, with direct links to X and Substack. You can also watch / listen on a bunch of other platforms (Rumble, RSS Audio Podcast, etc.), listed on Lunduke.com.
The Commodore Smartphone Blocks Social Media & Browsers (X, Substack)
AI Submissions to Linux Hits New Record, 10% of All Patches (X, Substack)
Huge thank you to all of The Lunduke Journal’s subscribers. You make all of this possible.
-Lunduke
The “TempleOS” and “Macintosh System 1” Lunduke Journal Lifetime Subscriber Walls are full! Those suckers filled up in a single week! (You can check them all out at Lunduke.com.)
But, behold! The “Commodore 64” and “BeOS R5” Walls are now available to add your names to!
Windows 2000 : 2 spots left
Commodore 64 : Space available
BeOS R5 : Space available
Those last two spots on the Windows 2000 Wall won’t last long. And, honestly, I expect the C64 Wall to by full pretty quickly.
Don’t have a Lifetime Subscription yet?
Grab one. Lifetime Subs are massively discounted during June.
Already have a Lifetime Subscription to The Lunduke Journal?
Email “bryan at lunduke.com” with which Wall you would like to be on, and how you’d like your name displayed (nickname, full name, etc.).
There are roughly 12 days left in June. How many Retro Computer themed Lifetime Walls can we fill up before the end of the month? Let’s find out!
Huge thank you to each and every one of you! You make The Lunduke Journal possible.
-Lunduke
