It was, originally, a Windows 7 machine. Bought in 2010.
Yesterday, I wiped the disk and installed 2024 Linux Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS.
It’s now a 500GB Linux machine with a DVD drive, SmartCard slot
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Short Takes
My Dash apps
My GeoGebra app
What is the most general equation for the area of a triangle?
The Wait calculation
The incessant obsolescence postulate (IOP)
Barnard’s Star and the 'Wait Equation'
IOP counterargument
The amazing arbelos
Barnard’s Star and the 'Wait Equation'
IOP counterargument
Japanese temple geometry
★ Sister Celine — a beautiful life
★ John Lienhard IV on Ingenuity
★ Charles Stutzenbaker, Field Biologist
Neal Stephenson on the OS
A few quotations
Tyler TX weather • 🌡 Steve Fitzgerald
Tyler TX weather • 3-day history
Tyler TX weather • calendar month
Tyler TX weather • graph month
East Texas weather • TAMU
★ All of the water in the world
Hacker News (from YCombinator)
