https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ-LivK4-78 On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:29 AM Rick Engebretson <eng at pinenet.com> wrote: > I think this is a very relevant topic these days, so I would like to > perpetuate it. And I will certainly show my age, incompetence, and > polarity. > > A lot of young people have good reason to ask where to turn for > survival. As regards Linux, it is certainly a lot more than a network > tool. It is a reference library. > > Out here in the boonies I feel stuck listening to hillbillies on the > right, commies on the left. and below zero temperatures with two feet of > snow. To survive I focus on food, energy, shelter, and if I'm lucky > enjoy digging into linux and computing deeply. Recently, learning the > wonderful multi-platform open source (with only linux remaining) > free-pascal free-vision programming I took a dive into learning what all > the keyboard codes were (because they were listed as constants in a > file). For those of us old enough to have used a typewriter, the > computer keyboard was a big new advancement. Turns out the "scan codes" > are created by a microcontroller from the keyboard matrix and sent by > synchronous serial to the motherboard, which also powers the keyboard. > That's a lot of industrial automation to be copied, and industrial > automation is survival. > > Months ago I described biofuels, biochar (black dirt), and a number of > related efforts. Now I see the Minnesota commies want to turn off our > electricity without a plan to replace it. And the corn and bean farmers > are stuck in market reality again. > > Every year I've looked to hire help. But I don't do social media, and > kids just won't fight the elements. I don't know how urban economics can > work without food, shelter, and energy skills. And without linux > industrial automation, what do you have?? > > > Ryan Coleman wrote: > > > > > As an FNG I wouldn’t push for single-platform specificity. I’m a web > > developer that got into security integration for almost a decade before > > landing back in full-time IT. It’s a long road at times and I wish I was > > 10 years younger. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20190308/c49f8ab3/attachment.html>