If you are one of the several hundred learners enrolled in the Linux for Beginners private course run by this Telegram channel, your invitations for tomorrow's Weekend Linux Workshop (to be held Sat. Oct. 8th @ 5:00pm ET) are being sent out to your email right now! (If you can't be there live, the wekeend workshops are always recorded so you can watch them later on the LMS!)

This week, we answer: How practical is it for most people to completely leave behind 'big tech' software like Microsoft Windows, and live our entire digital lives relying on Unix-like Free Software, such as Linux? Is there a risk switching to Linux from Windows?

And, where to go to get the best desktop environments, backgrounds, screen savers, and other free goodies for Linux!

In Unix-like systems, unlike Windows, nothing is hidden. You can know every single thing happening, and take back full control of your computer from 'big tech', once and for all!

If you can't make it to this weekend's live workshop, don't worry, it will be recorded (as always) and posted in our LMS system, for you to view with your login and password, at any time, 24/7.

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Anyone remember the old “video game tables” in restaurants in the 80’s and 90’s? 😁

A great place to eat your pizza…!

The “blackberry” was a popular mobile device in the early 2000’s.

If you had your friend’s blackberry PIN, you could send direct messages back and forth, this was before app messaging became popular.

Winamp. “It really …” 😂

THIS IS A REAL PROBLEM! The time is NOW to CLOSE your PayPal account if you have not done so already!

PayPal just announced it’ll steal $2,500 from any account that promotes “misinformation” or points of view that PayPal doesn’t agree with.

Apparently this also applies to any bank account you may have linked to your PayPal. They can initiate a debit from your bank account for $2,500 after they scan the internet and find something you posted that they don’t like. You have no recourse.

Why would anyone use this fascist service any more?

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JUST IN - PayPal spox on $2,500 misinfo fine: "An AUP notice recently went out in error that included incorrect information. PayPal is not fining people for misinformation and this language was never intended to be inserted in our policy... We’re sorry for the confusion this has caused."

PayPal now appears to be backing down after many users posted on social media that they will be closing their accounts.

https://www.disclose.tv/id/1578866879321415681/

@disclosetv

☝️☝️ Can’t speak for anyone else, but as far as the admins of the Jeff.pro channel are concerned, we’re done trusting Paypal. They were bad enough about freezing accounts and holding funds already. Who knows what ‘woke’ policies they will try to impose next. From here on, use at your own risk …

Learning to break away from the emerging government/'big tech' technocracy is one of the most important, healthy things you can do for yourself, now and for your digital future.

On this Telegram channel, we teach you how to eliminate 'big tech' spying and abuses from your life with Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and the Linux Operating System.

Linux is Digital Freedom!

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Heavenly Father, help us to understand the truth that we are in the world but not of the world. May we not be discouraged when the world seems to love its own but hates us. Keep us from any form of worldly philosophy or from trying to please those in the world. May we never yearn for affection or adoration from the world, but may we set our minds on Christ who loves us with His everlasting love. In Jesus' name, Amen.

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@Jeffrey_Peterson | @jptchat | jeff.pro

Happy Sunday, friends!

If you think Paypal trying to impose a policy of arbitrary fines for “misinformation” was bad, wait until you see how tyrannical CBDC’s are.

Of all the stuff they’re trying to do, introducing CBDC’s is one of the worst. And they’re already trying to sneak it in to the system, apparently.

We must say NO to CBDC’s.

Energy policy is huge to world monetary and political stability. So how do we fix it? Simple. First we need the willingness to fix it. How about a GOLDen solution.

Let’s get more black gold — oil — from the ground in North America, Canada has the 3rd largest oil reserves in the world. Alberta was ready to solve our gas needs until the Keystone pipeline project was shut down. Alberta has enough oil to fix not only the U.S. but Europe too. Not using it is insanity.

And let’s figure out how to get real gold behind our dollar again. Enough of the printing press run by central bankers. It has to stop.

About fixing the environment? Sure, less pollution would be nice for the planet. Why not. While we’re fixing energy with North American domestic drilled oil how about the “U.N.”, and all these wonderful “global policy” institutions which believe they can write policy worldwide, require China, the world’s worst polluter, to stop dumping literal mountains of toxic waste in to their water supplies and the ocean. China should be mandated to invest a few extra RMB to put in place some reasonable emissions systems for coal generators and refineries in China instead of letting everything billow out in to the sky, have some reasonable business ethics for once. 🤷‍♂️

Just a few thoughts for a Monday morning …

PayPal’s stock taking a hit this morning…

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PYPL/

@ChiefNerd

PRAYER

Lord, there’s so many things I’d like to say to you on this day, You know all of them already, but one thought needs to be said publicly, so I’ll say it here.

We ask You for help and so many other things, we always need from You, and You’re always there listening to our prayers. Today I’ve got nothing to ask, just something to say.

Thank you Lord Jesus, thank you.

Thank you, for being You.

With all my heart,

Jeffrey Peterson.

1992: Remembering Rush Limbaugh

"The environmental movement, fueled by the militants who lead it, is the new home of socialism"

Iphone users: If you’re using a VPN on your phone, it appears iOS 16 leaks data packets to Apple apps in a non-secure way outside of your VPN tunnel.

Did you recently upgrade your iOS version? Were you forced or harassed by your device until you accepted the upgrade? 🤔