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.

Follow -> @Jeffrey_Peterson

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. 💜

Also want to say one more thing to the people here who believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. In church today our pastor tied the book "The 5 Love Languages" in with John 3:16. One of the 'love languages' in this book is the giving of gifts. On the day before Valentine's Day we were reminded of the incredible and undeserved gift of LOVE the Lord Jesus Christ has given us through his death on the cross. Our pastor also reminded us to ENJOY THE GIFT. This got me all choked up because, in these difficult times, I often get very anxious and forget to ENJOY THE GIFT. So I just wanted to pass that on. 💜✝️❤️

Success! I just installed KDE! It looks like so much fun that I may be distracted for a while setting up. I just love this channel.

More than 90% of the top 1 million professional internet servers, and 100% of the world's top 500 supercomputers, run on the Free and Open Source Linux Operating System.

This is because of its stability and precision engineering.

The PROS are using Unix-like O.S.'s ... because they know ... while Microsoft Windows with its spyware, record high viruses, expensive licensing fees, and connections to China are pushed on the American public.

There's nothing stopping us, but "us," from making the change to a better way of doing our computing..AWAY from "big tech" O.S.'s like Windows.

@Jeffrey_Peterson

Woohoo! So excited about the great new Social Network launching soon, and so happy that I "got on board" with this tech freedom revolution back in September! It's not too late! It's not that hard! Never heard of Linux or distros or kernels before joining the Jeffrey Peterson - jeff.pro and JP's technology chat on 9/12/2021. I was in JP's first Linux for Beginners class, and was fully able to accomplish everything taught in those classes practicng with it a little bit every day (up to Build a Full Server — still on my to-do list!), and I HIGHLY recommend that course for people new to Linux! Because I wanted to pursue this technology further, I'm now 5 weeks into an awesome Python Programming course (Jeff.Pro) and I am participating in the small ways that I can (sharing with friends, opening conversations with acquaintances) and looking forward to doing more in the days ahead. We The People are making a difference! God bless Jeffrey Peterson! God bless this growing freedom community! And God bless our Nation truly with Liberty and Justice for all!

It's nice to be off of the Microsoft farm and not involved in the Windows 11 fiasco. Maybe they're doing "We the People" a favor by trying to force everyone to upgrade to new, more expensive hardware. More are likely to resist and just stay put with Windows 10 or look for other alternatives.

It's also nice to see that our OSes enable our upgrades to get better and better but still able to bring new life to older machines we abandoned to keep up with MS.

https://www.infopackets.com/news/11056/microsoft-nags-windows-11-upgraders