Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

HOW TO MOVE FROM WINDOWS TO LINUX:

0. Extract your Windows license key with Produkey https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html You may need it later.

1. Pick a distro. Doesn't really matter, but see comments for 1000 suggestions and misleadingly excess complications and twiddles that nobody asked for. Ubuntu and Mint are common starters. I use Xubuntu. Again, really doesn't matter.

The one thing I *do* suggest is: you pick one with a live USB. That way you can start the computer in your chosen distro and check all your hardware works before committing. Vital if you have any weird stuff.

2. Install it.

3. Many programs will have Linux versions. If so, sweet!

4. Most Windows software works under Wine. If you use Steam, just install that.

5. Windows stuff that refuses to work under Linux? Set up VirtualBox and install Windows 10/11 using the product key you extracted in step 0. That way you can use That One Fucking App without having to use Windows the rest of the time.

#India proposes forcing #smartphone makers to give source code in security overhaul - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/india-proposes-forcing-smartphone-makers-give-source-code-security-overhaul-2026-01-11/ not a problem for #opensource, of course...

Brussels plots #opensource push to pry Europe off Big Tech - https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/eu_open_source_consultation/ should have done this years ago as we urged....

Dem leadership showing clearly how and why they got into their positions of power.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/schumer-jeffries-refuse-to-join-democrats-growing-calls-to-slash-ice-spending.html

Our next online community get together is in less then 🔟 days: https://ev.phosh.mobi/gettogether/ . Join us!

#LinuxMobile #Phosh

Just had a great conversation about all this with a good cop. Oh, no, wait. It was Bigfoot, who is much more likely to exist.

NEW: DHS and Protesters Face off at Whipple Federal Building

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/dhs-and-protesters-face-off-at-whipple-federal-building/

When did you stop posting on X?

Person A: When its owner made nazi salutes.

Person B: When it became a production and distribution channel for images of child sexual abuse.

Government: We're still posting there.

When I lived in Vietnam, I met hundreds of Vets who felt driven to come back to the site of their trauma. They were all painfully disoriented to find the battle ground that had haunted them for 20 years was a vibrant, peaceful, and increasingly prosperous country that looked and felt nothing like the place that their minds had been stuck in since they left.

They weren’t happy to find a better place. They were bewildered. And often the response was fairly catastrophic.

Yesterday I volunteered for https://icelist.is

Let's track those fuckers down and expose them

No privacy for nazi's! 💪

#ICE

"consumers aren't buying based on AI” is demonstrably untrue, because i am a consumer, and i buy based on AI. i see a product uses AI and i choose something else

@Lazarou @stefanfrede @EUCommission Chat Control, like the British "on line safety act" was never about safeguarding children but controlling the citizenry and safeguarding politicians.

Trump on the Danes in #Greenland: 'But you know, the fact that they had a boat land there 500 years ago doesn’t mean that they own the land.'
The US First Peoples have been saying this for centuries, too.

Hot take: public surveillance should be publicly accessible. If our overlords wish to watch us all day, it only seems fair we can watch them, too.

“… Mar-a-Lago was crucial to Epstein’s sexual predation, a fact that was well-known by Trump’s inner circle long before Epstein was charged with any crime.” https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/mar-a-lago-jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump/

The fact that Renee Nicole Good's
family closed their GoFundMe after it
reached more than they ever
imagined and requested we instead
send donations to others in need is
exactly the difference between the
Good family and grifter Erika Kirk.

Anyone in or near the occupied Mohican / Lenape land of "New" "York" "City" 🗽, consider saving the date, Sunday 18th January 2026 (afternoon/early evening), for the possibly-first-ever local Co-op Cloud gathering & workshop 🤩 More details coming soon!

BLEEDING AMERICANS DRY!

Trump Regime funding threats set child care providers and parents on edge

Without federal subsidies, Breyanna Rodriguez's child care bill for her four children would run $4,400 a month, which would eat up most of her husband's paycheck. With child care assistance, Rodriguez, who lives in Cortland, Illinois, is able to work part-time and take community college classes while she prepares for nursing school.
#AureFreePress #Politics #uspol

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/trump-administration-funding-threats-set-child-care-providers-and-parents-on-edge

If the Maduro precedent catches on, U.S. reporters could be kidnapped and prosecuted overseas for activities that enjoy legal protection at home.

Former federal computer crime prosecutor Mark Rasch explains.

https://freedom.press/issues/what-the-maduro-extradition-could-mean-for-us-journalists/