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@donwatkins I only watched the first 5 minutes of this but it is very impressive. #data #dataanalysis #datasets #analyzing #chatgpt @tclarkeee @edutooters @edutooter #edtech #edchat #openai #AI #artificialintelligence #artificial #intellengence
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Embracing the feminine higher power – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2024/09/08/embracing-the-feminine-higher-power/ #SacredFeminine #spirituality #ai #essay
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Embracing the feminine higher power – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2024/09/08/embracing-the-feminine-higher-power/ #SacredFeminine #spirituality #ai #essay
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Embracing the feminine higher power – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2024/09/08/embracing-the-feminine-higher-power/ #SacredFeminine #spirituality #ai #essay
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Embracing the feminine higher power – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2024/09/08/embracing-the-feminine-higher-power/ #SacredFeminine #spirituality #ai #essay
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What is the right side of my graphic not displayed? Does anyone know. Maybe it’s a flaw with Trinket.io? #plshelp #python #coding #programming #education #trinket @donwatkins @brysonpayne @edutooters @edutooter
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What is the right side of my graphic not displayed? Does anyone know. Maybe it’s a flaw with Trinket.io? #plshelp #python #coding #programming #education #trinket @donwatkins @brysonpayne @edutooters @edutooter
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Exploring Snap and Flatpak: Innovations in Linux Application Deployment
In a previous article, I discussed the evolution of software installation on Linux, beginning with the early days of compiling software from compressed packages known as tarballs. Red Hat developed the package managers yum and later dnf, while Debian introduced apt. Other distributions, such as Arch, use pacman, and Suse employs Zypper and Yast. Although these package managers have significantly improved the safety and precision of software distribution, challenges still arise, particularly […] -
Getting Started with Ubuntu 26.04: A Beginner’s Guide to Linux
I downloaded Ubuntu 26.04 today, which is the latest long-term release of one of my favorite Linux distributions. I started using Ubuntu twenty years ago. While listening to one of my favorite Linux podcasts, the hosts discussed the new features in this latest release, which piqued my curiosity and led me to download and install it on a spare computer I have. Downloading and installing a new distribution in a virtual machine or on an extra computer has become second nature to me. But what […]https://donwatkins.info/2026/05/06/getting-started-with-ubuntu-26-04-a-beginners-guide-to-linux/
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Getting Started with Ubuntu 26.04: A Beginner’s Guide to Linux
I downloaded Ubuntu 26.04 today, which is the latest long-term release of one of my favorite Linux distributions. I started using Ubuntu twenty years ago. While listening to one of my favorite Linux podcasts, the hosts discussed the new features in this latest release, which piqued my curiosity and led me to download and install it on a spare computer I have. Downloading and installing a new distribution in a virtual machine or on an extra computer has become second nature to me. But what […]https://donwatkins.info/2026/05/06/getting-started-with-ubuntu-26-04-a-beginners-guide-to-linux/
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Getting Started with Ubuntu 26.04: A Beginner’s Guide to Linux
I downloaded Ubuntu 26.04 today, which is the latest long-term release of one of my favorite Linux distributions. I started using Ubuntu twenty years ago. While listening to one of my favorite Linux podcasts, the hosts discussed the new features in this latest release, which piqued my curiosity and led me to download and install it on a spare computer I have. Downloading and installing a new distribution in a virtual machine or on an extra computer has become second nature to me. But what […]https://donwatkins.info/2026/05/06/getting-started-with-ubuntu-26-04-a-beginners-guide-to-linux/
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Getting Started with Ubuntu 26.04: A Beginner’s Guide to Linux
I downloaded Ubuntu 26.04 today, which is the latest long-term release of one of my favorite Linux distributions. I started using Ubuntu twenty years ago. While listening to one of my favorite Linux podcasts, the hosts discussed the new features in this latest release, which piqued my curiosity and led me to download and install it on a spare computer I have. Downloading and installing a new distribution in a virtual machine or on an extra computer has become second nature to me. But what […]https://donwatkins.info/2026/05/06/getting-started-with-ubuntu-26-04-a-beginners-guide-to-linux/
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Solving the Brave profile error – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2026/05/13/solving-the-brave-profile-error/ #Brave #browser
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https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vision-pro-boils-down-to-kitchen-timers-and-thats-a-problem/ The Apple Headset. Great for kitchen timers? Oy.
#apple #virtualreality #vision_pro @donwatkins I wonder if it’s too heavy for exercise is it too heavy to say, watch a movie on #netflix
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How to Easily Remove Metadata from Photos with ExifCleaner – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2024/11/13/how-to-easily-remove-metadata-from-photos-with-exifcleaner/ #exif #photography #opensource #privacy #technolog
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ClamAV and BleachBit: One‑Two Punch
This afternoon, while reading about new developments in Linux Kernel 7.0, my browser session locked up, and I received a verbal warning that my system had been hacked, along with a number displayed for me to call Microsoft for help. I could not close the Chrome browser session, so I just shut down the system and then rebooted it. It came up fine, but it was a good reminder to install antivirus software and take other precautionary measures. I downloaded and installed an antivirus, then […]https://donwatkins.info/2026/05/08/clamav-and-bleachbit-one-two-punch/
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How Linux Mint, NTFSFix, and ClamAV Saved Microsoft Publisher – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2025/12/17/how-linux-mint-ntfsfix-and-clamav-saved-microsoft-publisher/ #Linux #ClamAV #ntfsfix
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Enhancing My Resume with AI: A Journey with Microsoft Copilot – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2024/11/16/enhancing-my-resume-with-ai-a-journey-with-microsoft-copilot/
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New Blog Post from #edtechman. I just finished the book "Coddling of the American Mind." I really enjoyed it and I wrote about some of the implications that this book discusses and the American Education System. #coddling #education @donwatkins @philshapiro @funnymonkey @edutooters @edutooter #freerangekids #learning #teaching #highered #highereducation #overparenting #mentalhealth #resilience #recess #unsupervised @sylviamartinez
http://edtechman.blogspot.com/2023/04/education-implication-around-book.html
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Educators to Follow on Mastodon for Innovative Teaching Insights – The Future is Open https://donwatkins.info/2024/11/10/twenty-k-12-educators-to-follow-on-mastodon-for-innovative-teaching-insights/ #education #edtech #technology #teaching #stem #steam #personallearning #learning #lifelonglearner
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Latest project. Using Python to be an artist (digital artist I guess. @donwatkins Working on making a workshop for 5th grade students to teach them some Python Coding. #python #coding #csforall #papert #logo #turtle #opensource. I actually used pip to install the “faker” library. It took me a bit but I got it. #resilience #grit #digitalart #artist #idle
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I keep a bootable Linux disk with me most of the time because I never know when I am going to need to use one to rescue a crashed Microsoft Windows machine or turn someone on to the Linux desktop. Most distributions include my own daily driver Linux Mint Cinnamon have utilities that make boot disk creation much easier than it used to be. If you are on a Windows or MacOS platform you could use a great utility like Etcher.io which is one of my favorite boot disk creation tools. But let’s suppose that you are using a Linux computer with no connection to the internet and no other disk creation tools.
You could use dd which is tool that many folks have never used but it’s still a reliable utility and one that can make a bootable disk when all else fails. The dd command is a Linux utility that is sometimes referred to as ‘disk destroyer’ or ‘data duplicator and it is very useful and effective if you have no other way to create a bootable USB drive.
You will need a FAT32 formatted USB drive. Then you will need to determine the directory in which the iso file bearing the Linux distribution resides so that you can point to it in your command sequence. You will also need to use the lsblk command to determine which block device you are going to send your data to. Use of the dd command without good information can be devastating to the health of your system as it is easy to overwrite the wrong drive like your boot and/or data drive.
With your USB stick inserted into your computer open a terminal issue the following command:
$ lsblkYou should receive an output that looks something like this.
$ /dev/sdb1 or /dev/sdc1
Unmount the drive with the following command.
$ sudo umount /dev/sdX1Use the
ddcommand to write the ISO file to the USB drive:$ sudo dd if=/path/to/linux.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M status=progressReplace
/path/to/linux.isowith the path to your ISO file and/dev/sdXwith the correct device identifierAfter the
ddcommand completes, you can verify that the data was written correctly by chechecking the output oflsblkorfdisk -1.Once the process is complete, safely eject the USB drive:
$ sudo eject /dev/sdXNow you are ready to start using your newly created Linux boot drive to rescue Windows systems or turn somene on to using Linux.
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Solving the Brave profile error
I've been enjoying the Brave browser lately. It's refreshing not to be bothered by annoying pop-ups and to know that my browser is blocking trackers and ads. I've also appreciated using Brave's Leo AI for research. However, when I opened a Brave session today, I encountered several persistent pop-up warnings indicating a profile error. After closing multiple warnings, I was eventually able to use the browser as I had before, but this new issue left me confused. I wanted to know how to […]https://donwatkins.info/2026/05/13/solving-the-brave-profile-error/
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Yesterday I wrote about Neofetch which is a tool that I have used in the past on Linux systems I owned. It was an easy way to provide a good snapshot of the distribution I was running and some other pertinent information about my computing environment. One of my readers replied to let me know that the project was no longer being maintained. It was last updated in August 2020. The commenter suggested that I check out Fastfetch. I thanked the reader and followed the link he provided to the Github repository for Fastfetch.
The project maintains that it is, “An actively maintained, feature-rich and performance oriented, neofetch like system information tool.” It is easy to install and provides much of the same information that was provided by Neofetch. However, it does supply your IP address but the project maintains that presents no privacy risk. The installation for Fedora and RPM based distributions is familiar by entering the following command.
$ sudo dnf install fastfetchIf you are a Ubuntu based distribution like my Linux Mint daily driver then the installation requires the download of the appropriate .deb file. Once the package was installed on my system I decided to try it.
Screen picture by Don Watkins CC by SA 4.00Fastfetch can be easily installed on a MacOS with Homebrew. I decided to try it on my MacBook.
Screen picture by Don Watkins CC by SA 4.0% brew install fastfetchFastfetch is written in C with 132 contributors. It is open source with an MIT license. In addition to Linux and MacOS systems you can install Fastfetch on Windows with Chocolatey. The project states that Fastfetch is faster than Neofetch and it is actively maintained. Fastfetch has a greater number of features than it’s predecessor and if you want to see them all enter the following command. For more information and examples be sure to visit the project wiki
#Fastfetch #Linux #MacOS #openSourceSoftware #systemInformation
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🚀 NEW on We ❤️ Open Source 🚀
Need to create bootable USB drives? Check out @donwatkins guide on using Etcher.io, the easy-to-use, cross-platform open-source utility for media creation!
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New Blog Post. It is about my ISTE (international society of technology in education) RFP to present. I'd love it if people would look at my proposal and see if I have any mistakes. Also, I have a new friend. Alonso Martinez. He works at Google AI and is an artist. I recommended him to present a keynote at ISTE.
http://edtechman.blogspot.com/2023/09/iste-proposal-and-alonso-martinez.html
@donwatkins @funnymonkey @mguhlin @philshapiro @hlseward
@education @edutooters @FrankKruse
@scerruti @[email protected] #ISTE #education #Pixar #Google #AI #coding #computer_programming #teaching #learning #Python #turtle #papert #syntax #opensource #open_source
