Subj : eenie meenie chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak
To   : Nancy Backus
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Thu May 30 2019 20:46:05

Hey Nancy!

 NB> Richard has one laptop with Win10 installed

I feel his pain.  Out here in the boonies the closest I have gotten to that is 
a Chromebook.  I have probably seen it on laptops in stores but never touched 
it myself.  My plan is to keep it that way.  I saw on a news article that MS 
plans to release a Chromebook type OS in the near future which confirms to me 
the adverse reaction I had when I did play with a Chromebook.  I did manage to 
get it to connect to the access point I have running on the raspberry pi but 
the range isn't all that great so I seriously doubt that has a future in this 
neck of the woods.

 NB> Still not what I'd want for my own computer

Understood.  For me the keyboard was the deal breaker.  I'd have to remap some 
of the keys to get console switching to work ... if indeed I could customize a 
bootable linux for it to start with.  The only things in it's favour - the 
Chromebook that reared it's ugly head here - was the cpu and 8G of ram but that 
is readily duplicated in other similar devices.

 NB> And linux seems to work well across the board...

It most certainly can.  Even fidonet.  :-)

 NB> any more than I am of watching TV

Amen.  Nothing to see there that is for sure.

 NB> And it seems linux works very well for you...

No doubt about it and has so since near the beginning mostly due to gcc and 
friends which was my initial attraction.  Downloadable kernel source has kept 
me a true believer.  Much fun has been had experimenting with oddball hardware 
over the years such as making bootable compactflash disks just before the turn 
of the century.  That is what led me to where I am today although I haven't 
seen or used a compactflash disk since.  However on this particular machine I 
am booting up a microSD card which is basically the same thing and the OS did 
evolve from the compactflash idea from way back when.  "Flash ttylinux of the 
21st Century" came out of that idea circa 2001-ish.  :-)

Life is good,
Maurice

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