Thank you. I was trying to figure this out as well.

It sounds like a decent way to fund a server. It’s not something I’m interested in, but you might get some takers.

I seem to remember a scene in Babylon 5 where Vir got sick eating at a place that sounded like a rebranded McDonalds. Londo was chastising him saying you know Centauri stomachs can’t handle fast food. I wish I had time to rewatch that show.

I’m short on time, but here’s the general idea. Telegrams front end, the part you use I the open source part. The backend is the closed off part. The two parts are separate but communicate via a protocol, kinda like email. The forked project can change anything they want, to make it do whatever they want, but it still needs to be able to speak to the backend server.

They didn’t care. You know non tech folk, they don’t care so long as it works. If you’re lucky, they know enough to hit the button with the power symbol to turn it on, but make sure you have step by step instructions printed out for those that can’t figure it out. I wish that was sarcasm.

In our location it was mostly used for passive tracking of equipment via a scanner on the roof of the truck and tags on the trailers and we didn’t use the software much beyond that. From what I saw of it, it was some native custom application. Used the default Gnome interface and design scheme of the time. Looked to be pretty idiot proof.

When I was working for Averitt Express, a trucking company out of Cookeville, Tn, our yard trucks had computers in them (for yard and dock management) that ran Ubuntu. This was 10ish years ago.

And this is why I don’t dual boot anymore. Or run Windows anymore for that matter. Learn to play nicely with others please, Microsoft.

Off course! Though I bought the CD and ripped it. Dangerous and Moving was a great album.

That’s what I thought you might try. Answer is, I don’t know. I think it would depend on what the UEFI does with the secure boot keys when you disable secure boot. From a security standpoint it would make most sense for it to wipe those keys, but I could be wrong. The easiest way to find out if it would cause a problem would be to try it.

If I understand this article correctly however, Windows only requires that the UEFI be capable of secure boot, not that secure boot be enabled.

I think the first thing I would try is to try installing and booting Windows without secure boot. If that fails, than reinstall, this time with secure boot enabled and leave it enabled. Several other comments here are saying that secure boot in linux is now largely seamless and as it has been several years since I’ve mucked about with it, I’m inclined to listen to their recommendation.

Should be doable either way, but swapping secure boot on and off may cause problems with Windows in your proposed setup. I would pick one and stick with it. I know Linux is compatible with secure boot, I just never bothered to learn how to work with it. If I remember correctly, every time a change was made to the kernel, the keys would need to be reenrolled. This includes whenever the Nvidia driver’s updated.

Might want to read up on secure boot.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Interface/Secure_Boot

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki's_EFI_Install_Guide/Configuring_Secure_Boot

The last time I had secure boot enabled on any of my systems was several years ago, but yes. At that time you had to enroll the keys both on the initial install and every update. It was such a headache for limited benefits (for me) that I just started disabling secure boot whenever I was setting up a system.

Things might have gotten easier, but I doubt it as he secure boot system is not really under the control of open source developers (for good reason) and the end user can really only choose whether it is enabled or disabled.

Not necessarily, but doing so will make your life alot easier, especially when it comes time to update the drivers.

I really only run 3 addons in Firefox currently. Chrome is the same but without UBlock.

• UBlock Origin
• BitWarden
• Streetpass for Mastodon

Sometimes it’s an ideological issue. Some distributions don’t ship nonfree drivers, some do, but require you to manually install them, and some have trouble making up their mind. This last is where you get live cds that automatically load the drivers needed for your hardware, but when you actually install, things aren’t working anymore.

Mine mostly exists as a statement that I exist. It was supposed to be a blog and contact page but I never actually write anything for the blog and nobody ever tries to contact me except for spam.

Unfortunately, they appear to be shutting down soon. Looks like it is illegal to gamble on politics in the US, at least according to one multi national betting site I looked at last night.

Know of anywhere that will let you bet on political races?

You didn’t say what OS you were running, but if you’re running an iPhone, the original Sonic is in the App Store and is pretty playable on a phone. I also really liked Temple Run.

Just get a Brother. Any of them are fine.

This is news? To anyone?