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   Colon Powell to Jan Panteltje   
   Re: Find a COMPATIBLE Linux Computer for   
   23 Oct 25 13:46:58   
   
   XPost: alt.linux   
   From: colon.powell@tutanato.com   
      
   On 10/20/2025 11:03 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >> Colon Powell wrote:   
   >>> Rob Braxman warns in another video not to upgrade from Windows 10 to   
   >> Windows 11 due to the lack of privacy on all new Windows 11 computers. I   
   >> recommend anyone watch that video and decide for themselves if he's   
   >> right.  In this video, Braxman urges his followers to buy late model   
   >> computers that don't have AI supporing chips and ID chips.   
   >>   
   >> Just recently, Windows Copilot got activated on Windows 11 in its full   
   >> form where the AI companion is now watching everything you do on screen   
   >> and doing screen shots every few seconds. Then it stores your every   
   >> action historically. Truly the biggest invasion of privacy ever and they   
   >> will duplicate your brain on the computer.   
   >>   
   >> The only OS that's free from this AI Companion BS is Linux. So it's time   
   >> to move since the spyware is here now on Windows and coming shortly to   
   >> MacOS and iOS. And it is also now on Google Android.   
   >   
   > I am posting this from a Raspberry Pi4 8GB with the Usenet Newsreader   
   NewsFleX I wrote.   
   > A Raspi costs less than 100 US dollars, including 128 GB SDcard for storage.   
   > I do have a 4 TB Toshiba US harddisc connected to some Raspberries via an   
   USB hub.   
   > Now we are crossing the $200, add wireless keyboard and mouse, monitor.   
   > I do have 5 Raspberries, 4 are on 24/7, 3 are on a UPS.   
   > Several 'hats' for raspberries to do things, some RTL_SDR USB sticks to   
   follow radio, air traffic, ship traffic,   
   > outside weather sensor, airpressure, measure and log radiation, records 6   
   security cameras,   
   > records audio, plays background music and one drives a huge moving dot   
   matrix display   
   > in the window upstairs asking for a 2 state solution in Gaza.   
   >   
   > Have not used MS windows since win98, started with Linux in about 1992 with   
   SLS   
   >   https://itsfoss.com/earliest-linux-distros/   
   >    4. Softlanding Linux System (SLS)   
   > Wrote code for many applications...   
   > PCs run Linux here too (grlm and Slackware), laptop runs Ubuntu.   
   >   https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/download.html   
   >   https://panteltje.nl/pub/computer_table_IMX_IMG_0679.JPG   
   >   https://panteltje.nl/pub/Fazley_keyboard_behind_table_IXIMG_1524.JPG   
   >   
   > Windows 'upgrades???'   
   > Oldest raspi here is running a release from February 2013, on 24/7, never a   
   problem.   
   >   
   > This one   
   >   raspberrypi: ~ # uname -a   
   > Linux raspberrypi 5.15.32-v7l+ #1538 SMP Thu Mar 31 19:39:41 BST 2022 armv7l   
   GNU/Linux   
   > also on 24/7 on UPS.   
   > Monitor via HDMI switch that can select any Raspi on the table.   
   > Uptime of the security cameras recording Raspi was almost 600 days when l   
   looked a while back.   
   > Reiability is good, very good.   
   >   
   > MS had shares in hardware companies, it makes ever more bloated software   
   needing ever more powerful hardware   
   > sucking ever more power: so your money.   
   > They have nothing new whatsoever that is not available for free and often   
   better in Linux.   
      
   That's quite an impressive setup you have and it shows that you're a   
   very talented and well educated engineer-programmer.  That's good   
   information that has piqued my interesting Raspberry and Pi   
   architecture. I hope to investigate the platform further and see where   
   it takes me.   
      
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   aliens. Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic   
   transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring   
   unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to   
   enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and   
   abetting any of the preceding acts. Subsection 1324(a)(2) prohibits   
   bringing or attempting to bring unauthorized aliens to the United States   
   in any manner whatsoever, even at a designated port of entry. Subsection   
   1324(a)(3)."   
      
   “If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.” Dan Quayle   
      
   https://www.globalgulag.us   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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