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nickb333

@ nickb333 @fedia.io

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Travelling the Fediverse one stone at a time.Mainly @nickb333, this one is for mbin/lemmy.

Headstones courtesy of Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire.

  • FBI raids home of Russian-born 2016 Trump adviser: report

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  • Organic Maps got removed from Google Play Store.

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  • ‘Kafkaesque’: bank blocks cash transfer, saying it could be an AI scam

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  • Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

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  • Likewise, new android user and it's far easier than OSM in my Vivaldi browser.

  • Liz Truss leaves stage in Beccles as 'lettuce' banner unfurls

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  • Lizteria. Is that Lettuce hysteria?

  • Drunken woman defecated on police officer who tried to put her in handcuffs

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  • Alabama Coal Regulators Said They Didn’t Know Who’d Purchased a Mine Linked to a Fatal Home Explosion. It’s a Familiar Face

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  • Alabama Coal Regulators Said They Didn’t Know Who’d Purchased a Mine Linked to a Fatal Home Explosion. It’s a Familiar Face

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  • Liz Truss storms off stage as she's targetted by Led By Donkeys

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  • Then there's her resignation honours list...

  • Ex-Colorado clerk Tina Peters found guilty in election machine breach case

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  • She probably gained an endless supply of pillows.

  • Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’

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  • basic UI programming in linux

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  • I class myself as having similar experience to your friend having used Power Basic and Turbo Pascal mainly under DOS. I was able to use tkinter to produce some simple gui front-ends to produce dialogue boxes, process data and feed it to GnuPlot.

  • The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT

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  • Is it people that want to switch away from Windows or switch to Linux?

    In my case it was the former, having spent a lot of time on FreeBSD so in 2007 I bought a Macbook Pro running OSX 10.3. This gave me most of what I wanted and when I needed something Windows (XP) specific I installed a VM running under Parallels, then Virtual Box. I was able to run most of the open source software at that time such as Open Office, Firefox, Thunderbird in preference to the Apple supplied apps.

  • The Best way to switch to Linux is to NOT

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  • I hate it when someone sends me a PDF form and tells me I can complete it using Acrobat (or whatever it's called this week). Last one I successfully completed with the Firefox PDF ed.

  • Jess Phillips calls X a ‘place of misery’ as she vows to scale back use

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  • I fail to understand how they ever ended up there in the first place. Maybe it makes sense for businesses but why put government stuff there when ultimately they may be subject to moderation at someone else's whim.

    Add the past government's use of WhatsApp to this too so they can't conveniently lose data when a device is replaced.

  • Any other regional UK-centric groups in the Lemmyverse I may have missed?

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  • Any other regional UK-centric groups in the Lemmyverse I may have missed?

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    The surveilled society: Who is watching you and how

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  • I watched the movie "Enemy of the State" the other day. It was released in 1998, but it was a true prediction of the future.

  • What vm software you use on linux

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  • They run a full distro rather than the minimalist that Docker containers use. You can also use them to run gui apps but that needs a bit more work to configure. I run Google Chrome sandboxed this way.