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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 05:29:18 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    I just delivered a ThinkPad L15 laptop.

    Upgraded to 32GB memory, 1TB nvme SSD. This laptop has two memory slots. Looks to be a good reliable design.

    #thinkpad #L15
    In conversation about 4 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 05:29:17 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • Nice Mitch Conner
    I do!

    It is difficult to do full time and make enough, which is what I am doing. I've been in business for 15 years so I have a lot of repeat customers now.

    I also started an email newsletter around 8 years ago. If I hadn't have done that, I probably would not have survived.

    However, if you are wanting to do stuff for fun and profit on the side, it is different. I have some ideas that I could certainly talk over.

    Depends on if you want to sell stuff or offer services.
    In conversation about 4 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 04:32:14 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • BowserNoodle ☦️
    • Nice Mitch Conner
    Agreed.

    Our friends, who owned their house near where this guy lived sold and bought a different property about ten miles away, mainly to get farther away from him (other reasons, too, but that likely was the thing that motivated them to take action).
    In conversation about 4 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 04:22:33 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • BowserNoodle ☦️
    • Nice Mitch Conner
    That may be a slight difference. The rural area I live in is fairly safe, but not completely.

    Had a seemingly random violent act done by a white guy less than a mile from our home. Pretty serious, as he rushed into a home, grabbed a knife from the dinner table and attempted to attack the home owner.

    He was out of jail within a month.
    In conversation about 4 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 04:21:00 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • Nice Mitch Conner
    Agreed. The area I live in is about 97 percent white.

    Still massively dysfunctional, unintelligent and unhealthy.

    The main reason I am not a white supremacist is that the stupidest people I know who make the worst decisions are white.

    I am sure people of other races also make equally dumb decisions (or worse, if you think whites are inherently better)... but "my race makes slightly less terrible decisions that your race" isn't a great foundation.
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 28-Jun-2025 04:03:50 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    If you do not like what a company is doing... don't continue buying products and services from them.

    Use your money (life force) to support what you want more of and stop the flow of resources to what you see as being harmful.

    #cashfriday
    In conversation about 4 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 08:07:17 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • BowserNoodle ☦️
    • Mosley
    Thanks @BowsacNoodle for the mention.

    I purposefully do not work on the Microsoft Surface models because most of them were designed to be unrepairable.

    Sorry to hear that yours stopped working @whiteman_ . Please don't put any serious money into trying to fix it. You can try power resets, trying to power on without the battery in it, et cetera.

    And... also don't buy another Surface to replace it. A refurbished ThinkPad or other business class computer would be more reliable and serviceable.
    In conversation about 5 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 02:16:37 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • feld
    Agreed.

    I recently tried to use Signal, but there were a lot of roadblocks in the way, as I don't use a mobile phone.
    In conversation about 5 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 02:12:33 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • feld
    I'll try to message you soon using DeltaChat to talk more. I've been following your posts on it. Haven't tried it out since then, though, and would like to.

    I tried out DeltaChat years ago.
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 02:06:01 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • feld
    I've been to their office. The solar panels are to the north of the building.

    I haven't had their coffee for a while.

    Thanks for the reminder ☕
    In conversation about 5 days ago from gnusocial.jp permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 00:57:23 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • feld
    Wonderstate is a customer of mine. Cool to see in my #fediverse feed.

    #coffee
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 27-Jun-2025 00:55:20 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    Concerning the #fediverse:

    "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious."

    ... but it can be the start to amazing adventures, too.
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jun-2025 06:32:07 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    I am okay with disk encryption if the owner of the device enables it themselves and understands at least a little bit about it.

    Microsoft enabling it on people's computers without their knowledge is really scummy.

    I have full disk encryption on my ThinkPad laptop with Linux and I'm okay with that... because I set it up and I know about it.

    #microsoft #encryption #linux #thinkpad
    In conversation about 6 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 09:34:13 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    This project is coming along nicely.

    A modified Barracuda in the wild.

    It will be my OPNsense router for my new business location. I very much enjoy piecing together old hardware to make something useful or interesting.

    The chassis is a salvaged Barracuda BSF200a appliance. Stripped most of what was in there out, leaving the power supply. Replaced the motherboard with Gigabyte GA-H77N-WIFI - this was chosen due to the dual GbE network ports.

    Low profile cooler (heatsink) came from a SuperMicro motherboard combo that I ordered from ebay. Kingston 120GB SSD came from local recycling.

    Processor is i3-3220T - a lower power option than the processor that I originally got with the motherboard.

    Blower fan is from a Dell Optiplex SFF machine, placed upside down, cushioned with foam and hot-glued in place.

    It is a thoroughly custom solution built from parts I acquired from many sources.

    #opnsense #bsd #hardware #retroedge
    In conversation about 7 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink

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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 07:04:54 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    • djsumdog
    Yes

    npub1hrjtmuryqz82hxzpvv5ulrcxxgrw42afax8n7d9cnnz0zrrq44tqpv3ft3
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 07:04:53 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • matthew - retroedge.tech
    I just found you on nostr and followed you there.
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 06:31:54 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    • djsumdog
    Blog post on the topic: Broken Fediverse

    https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-broken-fediverse/

    written by @djsumdog

    Good summary of the situation. Also glad that he mentioned alternatives like Nostr

    #fediverse #nostr
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      The Broken Fediverse
      When Elon Musk originally bought Twitter, a number of people moved over to Mastodon. There were a lot of misunderstandings around how Mastodon works....
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Jun-2025 03:57:46 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
    I am typing this from a ThinkPad E535 laptop.

    It is usable from Linux Mint live boot, even with only 4GB memory. Not sure how it will work with Windows 11 (though I may upgrade to 16GB if Windows ends up staying on it).

    The A6-4400M CPU isn't that powerful. It could be upgraded to an A8 or A10, but I don't think I have one of those lying around.

    This laptop is perfectly fine for retro or minimal type tasks, but would struggle a bit what is expected out of laptops today (as least without upgrades).

    I have customers who want laptops under $200 - this certainly would fit that requirement.

    #thinkpad #e535
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Friday, 20-Jun-2025 01:20:01 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • Robert R.
    I suspect that nuclear weapons are entirely fake.

    But if they are real, is "the right to bear arms" limited only to certain kinds of weapons? Or just to the those who are in alliance with us?

    Or is the ability to defend ones-self built into how the world works?
    In conversation about 12 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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    matthew - retroedge.tech (matthew@social.retroedge.tech)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jun-2025 07:13:45 JST matthew - retroedge.tech matthew - retroedge.tech
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    • Rose
    Glad you are posting on the fediverse. You don't always have the reach that you could on Twitter, but you are more in control and can't be (as easily) shut down.
    In conversation about 18 days ago from social.retroedge.tech permalink
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