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Open source software is amazing and it seems like there are always solutions that come in handy when I look hard enough. Today was one of those days when a internet search for a query I read on Mastodon netted…
Mom’s birthday is in a couple of days. Had she lived she’d be ninety-eight this year. Mom was born at Misericordia Hospital in Manhattan on November 6, 1926. She was born a mere six year after a woman’s right to…
Apple’s computers switched from Intel X86 to ARM in 2020 when the company nnounced the M1 in November 2020. Since that time they have continued to release more ARM processors and now they have the M4 and M4 plus. ARM…
When I attended All Things Open a year ago, I carried a Hewlett-Packard DevOne, which I had purchased the year before. Two years ago, I was anxious to try the DevOne because I wanted to try an AMD Ryzen 7…
Many people choose to encrypt their disk drives because it is one way of ensuring that your data stays secure and safe from the prying eyes of others. I always shy away from encrypting my disk because I don’t have…
I keep a bootable Linux disk with me most of the time because I never know when I am going to need to use one to rescue a crashed Microsoft Windows machine or turn someone on to the Linux desktop.…
Mastodon is an open-source social networking platform for microblogging. While it has a web-based interface, many users prefer to use a client to access Mastodon. Clients are programs or applications that allow users to access and interact with the Mastodon…
Open WebUI offers a robust, feature-packed, and intuitive self-hosted interface that operates seamlessly offline. It supports various large language models like Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs, Open WebUI is open source with an MIT license. It is easy to download and install and it has excellent documentation. I chose to install it on both my Linux computer and on the M2…
In recent weeks, climate change has wrought untold hardship upon the mountain communities of Western North Carolina. The infamous and powerful Hurricane Helene mercilessly swept through these areas with little warning or respite for those in its path, leaving a…
Yesterday I wrote about Neofetch which is a tool that I have used in the past on Linux systems I owned. It was an easy way to provide a good snapshot of the distribution I was running and some other…