October 2024
@ramenjunkie.bsky.social - Ramen Junkie Wednesday 2024-10-23 – Link List
Ramen Junkie Blogging Intensifies Link List for Wednesday 2024-10-23
22-Oct-2024 – “Click to Cancel” Coming Soon
Brief Summary: “If you’ve ever had to suffer through a call tree and a 9,000 hour wait on hold to cancel a subscript”
18-Oct-2024 – Teaching Owlgebra: developing math on Duolingo
Brief Summary: “You’ve heard of Spanish or vanish, but what about divide or hide? Last year, Duolingo launched a new”
18-Oct-2024 – Google’s ad-blocking crackdown underway
Brief Summary: ”
Google has gotten a bad reputation as of late for being a bit overzealous when it comes to fighting”
18-Oct-2024 – Experimenting with audio input and output for the OpenAI Chat Completion API
Brief Summary: “OpenAI promised this at DevDay a few weeks ago and now it’s here: their Chat Completion API can now “
18-Oct-2024 – Correct and Incorrect Conclusions About Democrats and Unions
Brief Summary: “We need more union members. We need more union members. (Photo: Getty)Joe Biden has been an uncommon”
17-Oct-2024 – Illinois Joins CoSN’s Trusted Learning Environment (TLE) State Partnership Program for Student Data Privacy
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17-Oct-2024 – Qualcomm Has Canceled its Snapdragon Dev Kit, Will Refund All Preorders
Brief Summary: “Qualcomm has canceled the Snapdragon Dev Kit, its mini PC powered by a Snapdragon X Elite chip, and “
17-Oct-2024 – Internet Archive Slowly Revives After DDoS Barrage
Brief Summary: “Days after facing a major breach, the site is still struggling to get fully back on its feet.”
17-Oct-2024 – MAGA is a virus and the press should be the vaccine
Brief Summary: “America is in the midst of a political pandemic.
Perilously close to half of its population has fall”
17-Oct-2024 – What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs?
Brief Summary: “It’s been said that the best way to stifle creativity by researchers is to demand that they produce “
17-Oct-2024 – Second Life Book Club to End.
Brief Summary: ” After some years, the Second Life Book Club, hosted by Draxtor Despres, will be coming to a close.”
17-Oct-2024 – WTF happened to our music?
Brief Summary: “Accusations that some big name musical acts have been miming their vocals raises some tricky questio”
16-Oct-2024 – Winamp Taken Down: Too Good For This Open Source World
Brief Summary: “If you picked today in your hackerspace’s sweepstake on when Winamp would pull their code repository”
16-Oct-2024 – Orla Gartland has confirmed a European and UK tour for spring 2025
Brief Summary: ”
Orla Gartland has announced her largest UK and European tour to date.
The run is set to take pla”
16-Oct-2024 – 🧰 My Self-Care Toolbox
Brief Summary: “Self-care is generally defined as the practice of taking care of your physical, mental, and emotiona”
16-Oct-2024 – Arduboy Cassette Award Explores New Features
Brief Summary: “When [Press Play on Tape] entered their game Prince of Arabia into the Arduboy FX Game Jam, we bet t”
15-Oct-2024 – Rogue Legacy 1 source code released
Brief Summary: “Rogue Legacy, a rogue-lite from Cellar Door Games, that originally released in 2013 has now had the “
15-Oct-2024 – 24 phrases for your next Spanish conversation
Brief Summary: “We all need a bit of help sometimes—learners included! When it comes to language, speakers use lots “
15-Oct-2024 – What Is the Trump 2024 Blueprint for Stealing the White House?
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14-Oct-2024 – Solving a Retrocomputing Mystery with an Album Cover: Greengate DS:3
Brief Summary: “[Bea Thurman] had a retro music conundrum. She loved the classic Greengate DS:3 sampler, but couldn’”
Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.
@ramenjunkie.bsky.social – Ramen Junkie 2024-10-23 19:58:00
How does the context menu of File Explorer in #Windows11 somehow keep getting worse? Where the hell is refresh? I mean, I can hit F5, but still, sometimes I just want to use the menu because I am lazy. Also, New Bitmap image? Not even something useful like a new txt file?Linux, Again
So, I am back on Linux again. On my laptop at least. I never really STOPPED using Linux, I use it on Raspberry Pis and my Webserver and in the Windows Subsystem for Linux all the time.
Just for the record, I just went with boring Mint Linux.
But I have moved back to using it full time again on my laptop. I still have the Windows partition for now, but I seriously doubt I am ever going to go back to it again. And FWIW, I have previously used only Linux on laptops in the past. The concept is not at all alien to me.
I have wanted to make the switch back for a while but was a bit hobbled. I had been using an app to tether connectivity off my phone over USB. I could never get it to reliably work in Linux. I discovered recently that my cell plan now just includes regular WiFi based hotspotting, so I can just connect via WiFi when needed.
This was literally the only hurdle.
Another motivation though is the end of life for Windows 10 coming next year. I really feel like this is going to get pushed out because Windows 10 is really going strong still. But just in case, I need to get off of it.
Side note, Microsoft is really over estimating just how often people upgrade their PC hardware with their push of Windows 11 from 10. The blocking factors of the upgrade are extremely arbitrary and most of the PCs that can’t be updated to Windows 11, still function just fine for 90% of use cases for “regular people.”
Anyway, I plan to keep using my laptop for the foreseeable future. So moving to Linux is the best option.
I also want to use it as a bit of a test bed for migrating my project PC to Linux as well, mostly I have questions relating to Docker and the easiest solution will just be to test it.
Anyway, the migration itself was surprisingly smooth. Most of my workflow has been shifting to be very “floaty”. Almost all my writing for example, is Joplin and local files, which are in a private Github repository.
Joplin just worked, and then I set up Git and pulled the repository down. Visual Studio Code has a Linux option, I think it was even pre-installed I think. I already have been using it as a txt editor so I am familiar with the best ways to set things up.
The real missing piece is OneDrive syncing, but its something I can work around, especially since these folders already sync via my Synology.
Most everything else I use on the Laptop was just a matter of making a list in Windows and then downloading them in Linux. Mostly I just use the thing for writing and for sorting image files off my phone.
Josh Miller aka “Ramen Junkie”. I write about my various hobbies here. Mostly coding, photography, and music. Sometimes I just write about life in general. I also post sometimes about toy collecting and video games at Lameazoid.com.