This is a recording of tonight's replay from Jan. 26th, 2022 of a talk by GNU/Linux co-founder Dr. Richard Stallman, to the Jeff.pro User Group.

It is quite an extraordinary event for our group to connect with "rms". During the past thirty years, Stallman has been recognized by the technology community as the most influential advocate for Digital Freedom, frequently criticizing visible technology personalities such as Steve Jobs of Apple, and Microsoft's Bill Gates.

In 1983, Stallman started the Free Software Foundation and development of GNU, later merging with the OS Kernel developed by Linus Torvalds in 1992, becoming GNU/Linux, the world's most popular Operating System alternative to "big tech" OS's like Microsoft Windows and MacOS. Maintained by tens of thousands of programmers in many popular "distros" like Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and others, more than 90% of the world's internet servers run on GNU/Linux due to its stability and precision engineering.

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After bricking this OnePlus 6, and three days of scouring the forums to fix, a great result!

LineageOS on a oneplus 8 here. Works beautifully!

I have documents in excel and word, do you know if those will import into the Libre Office documents ok?

Picked up a HP desktop for $50 online, now running Linux Mint with KDE 8GB ram, 1TB HD. Can't tell the difference from my HP Envy laptop. Just bought it to play with and burn more drives with Linux without having to open my laptop and disconnect the SDD. Repurposing old tech to fight big tech! How many people can we help with low cost alternatives to feeding the enemy buying expensive new tech or worse forever financing their garbage

Love Linux! Easy enough to learn how to use. Also GnuCash is easy to use.
Got away from those others during the MSWin10 update cramming era.

Switched to Ubuntu 20.4 a few months ago and already feeling very comfortable with it.
BYE BYE WINDOWS!!!

I switched my daughter's laptop to Ubuntu 20.4 a few months ago. She isn't even computer savy and loves it! No more annoying Windows updates or blue screens of death!! 💻

Friends, on this channel we teach you a better way to do your computing: With Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the Linux Operating System.

Linux is the People's Operating System. It is a complete replacement for "big tech" OS's like Microsoft Windows. You might say, "I don't have time to change." That's fine. We understand. Just stick around and learn with us, in small, bite-sized lessons. Soon you will understand why it's important for you to discover the world of FOSS and Unix-like OS's, so you can stop letting your digital life and your computer depend on software built by big corporations who hate us.

Considering everything happening in the world, the time is now. On this channel you can learn a little more, every week. What you learn will put you ahead of the curve to protect your digital security and privacy. Don't wait to start learning until they get even further along. Here, you will learn about the OS ecosystem that was built for our Digital Freedom.

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Thanks to Blueghost05, a subscriber to our channel, for finding this helpful article with some good Telegram tips, updated as recently as a week ago.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/useful-telegram-features/

If you are in our Linux for Beginners ongoing class, this weekend we will be doing a workshop on the new buzzword sweeping the technology media: Web3.

Web3 is more than "just crypto," in fact we at the Jeff.pro channel at not big in to crypto. Many new technologies are emerging as part of Web3's promises to "decentralize" computing. Some of this may be helpful, like Web3 websites that can't be censored, some of the new technologies could be harmful, depending on how you see things.

We think it will be useful for Patriots to have an unbiased introduction to Web3, so we can at least hold our own in conversations about Blockchain technologies and and so everyone can intelligently debate the new Web3 as time goes on. So, we will provide an overview about it as a starting point, this Saturday @ 5:00pm EST in our Linux for Beginners Weekend Workshop.

@Jeffrey_Peterson

😃 bye big tech

Choose wisely.

A PRAYER FOR HEALING

Father God,

Thank you for the Miracles
We see You performing,
all around us.

Where would we be
Without Your constant
Mighty presence,
and Your love?

On this day,
As we worship You,
We pray for healing.

Some of us,
Or our loved ones,
And our our brothers and sisters,
Have been hurt badly,
In so many ways.

Please continue to show us
How we may heal ourselves,
Heal our families
Heal our loved ones,
Heal our land,

And show us how,
With our renewed strength,
We may better seek truth,
from Your Word.

Amen.

Thank you friends for being with us on the Jeff.pro channel this weekend! We appreciate everyone here very much!

We wish you a happy upcoming week ahead, with your family, your work, your friends, your animals ... we have a bunch of Dog lovers on this channel

The admins are here to help teach you new and useful things for your computer world, to help point Patriots in the right direction tech-wise. Follow Jeff.pro to learn a little more about technology that will make your life better, one day at a time!

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Who remembers VHS video tapes? Maybe you still have some out in the garage...

Speaking of technology, one practical thing we can do, over time, is convert some of our old video tapes to digital, for posterity, safekeeping, or convenience.

Anyone have good ideas about how to convert old video tapes to digital? Any good providers of this service you can recommend? The question surfaces with some frequency here!

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A telegram tip for chats, especially when they get busy. If your using desktop you can make sure you follow a thread by either selecting the "Reply" in top right corner of message or by right clicking message and selecting "Reply". Also on the Android app touching the message should give you a "Reply" option. This allows for "follow back to previous posts" as well

As I wait for JP's inspirational post on this Lord's day, I just want to say again how much I have been blessed by this channel and the people on it. So grateful for JP, the admins, and all the positive, helpful people in this group. And not only the help, but the constant, unfailing diligence in keeping this channel a clean, encouraging place to be. I know that is a tough and time-consuming job. THANK YOU FREEDOM WARRIORS! God has put you in this place for a specific reason. Feeling very blessed. 💜