Month in review: October 2025
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Month in review: August / September 2025
Things that happened I installed Linux Mint on my personal laptop. I know nothing about Linux but it's an old Windows 10 laptop which isn't capable of running Windows 11, and Windows 10 support of coming to an end. The installation was more effort t...
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