Does this Look Infected? (My Struggles with Failing to Replace Windows 10 with GNU/Linux) **For a while, it has been a joke in the FOSS community that Windows is not as much an operating system as it is a trojan/virus, thanks to Microsoft's anti-competitive practices and how difficult it is to remove it (with some even making detailed comparisons of the typical characteristics). Recently, I had an experience from which I concluded that there is a lot of truth to this…
The Fallout Games: An Unprompted Opinion (and a Desire to do Some Retro-Futuristic Weirdness) A friend of mine asked me if I've ever played any of the *Fallout* games and what I think of them. Here's an impromptu rambling rant, by way of response. I like the original *Fallout* game (the one made by Interplay, before the company ran into financial difficulty). It seems to work well within its scope despite (or perhaps because of) the technological constraints of its time. I…
We Need Solutions to the Problem of Unreliable Electricity Supply in My Home Country Living in the Third World country that I call home (South Africa), having consistently reliable and stable Internet connection is something of a luxury and a rarity. Consequently, I have had to think of ways to work around that in order to get work done despite obstacles and setbacks. Simply being flexible enough to get work done when I do have electricity supply isn't going to be…
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