XPost: alt.linux   
   From: colon.powell@tutanato.com   
      
   On 10/21/2025 3:22 AM, Jan Panteltje wrote:   
   >> Colon Powell wrote:   
   >>> 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.   
   >>   
   >> Thank you for your highly informative and on-topic post.  Would you be   
   >> so kind as to post a link to your newsreader?   
   >   
   > Sure   
   >   https://panteltje.nl/panteltje/newsflex/index.html   
   >   
   > That is an older version, only recently ported it to Raspberry Pi.   
   > I use libforms (Xforms) for the GUI.   
   > There was a problem when the xforms maintainer dropped the middle and right   
   mouse button support.   
   > I contacted him and I think it was fixed,   
   > but mine still runs on an older version of xforms, have not tried the latest   
   xforms.   
   >   
   > I people want the Raspberry version I can make a release.   
   >   
   > NewsFleX has been running fine since about the nineties..   
   > I wrote it when staring with Linux and there was no FreeAgent newsreader for   
   Linux.   
   >   
      
   I downloaded NewsFlex from your site but haven't figured out how to   
   install it and run it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop.  Most likely it's due   
   to my own ignorance and limited proficiency using command line Linux   
   commands.   
      
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