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Terminator 3, Rise Of Real Machines?

March 27, 2026 Tony Burgess 1 Comment

Check out Terminator 3. It’s a cautionary tale that continues the Terminator story. Remember Cyberdyne’s Skynet and all the things it can do through Artificial Intelligence. It’s when Skynet goes online bad stuff happens after becoming self aware and taking control. Things that are artificial can now become intelligent and destroy stuff. Scary shit eh? It may be a movie of fiction but sometimes art imitates life.

Arnold Schwarzenneger and Kristanna Loken’s terminators go to war to save John Connor played by Nick Stahl and Kate Connor Claire Danes who are the hope for all mankind.

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I Am Truly Sad For Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’s Cancellation

March 24, 2026 Tony Burgess Leave a comment

For years, I thought the idea of a Star Trek series centered around its Starfleet Academy would be great. Stories of young cadets learning to be officers in Starfleet sounded like a great idea to me. Now Paramount Plus, the home of Star Trek went and did just that. A series led by Oscar winner Holly Hunter was going to take us into a new future for Trek.

Yesterday it was announced the next season in 2027 it will be the last for Star Trek: Starfleet. They didn’t even get four years like cadets in Military Academy’s get.

Some folks cannot get past the fact that this show is about infinite diversity in infinite combinations. They can’t imagine a strange new world. They just don’t have it in them to expand their minds to new possibilities like Gene Roddenberry brought us in the original series from the 1960s.

Some labeled it “woke” and I must say that Star Trek has always been and hopefully will always be “woke”. I thought this new series was fresh, unique and full of potential, but we won’t know. I am angry about this. That cast delivered great performances and told stories that were important. I don’t know where Star Trek is headed but with the new ownership of the studios being led by nefarious people with bad intentions I am not so sure.

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Happy Pi Day, Let Us Have Pie!

March 14, 2026 Tony Burgess Leave a comment

Pi Day is an annual opportunity for math enthusiasts to recite the infinite digits of Pi, talk to their friends about math, and eat pie.

To celebrate we have enjoyed three-meat pizza pie and chocolate satin pie. Both were yummy. Since it is also Saturday the 14th after Friday the 13th we are watching a scary, cheesy 1980s movie Saturday The 14th.

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A Commentary on Linux and Computer Hardware

March 14, 2026 Tony Burgess Leave a comment

Apple launched a new series of MacBooks recently called Neo. They are powered by the same chips that power iPhones. I think the company is producing so many new things that something you bought last year seems obsolete. That planned obsolescence cannot be good for the environment because of the e-waste it produces. We are also aware of Windows 11 making many systems obsolete too.

I am glad to do my part to keep older machines going as long as possible. Thanks to Linux working on perfectly good machines it can make a difference. It’s also fun and cool to keep an older system going with a little creativity such as more memory and SSDs. To the Linux community lets keep making our favorite distros better and easier for new users to come on board so they can save some time and money.

I recommend ZorinOS, Fedora or Linux Mint for anyone wanting to get into the Linux game. They are powerful operating systems that is easy on older systems. They are also full of features that will help you get things done such as web browsing, word processing, graphics, podcasts, email, music, gaming and more.

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Making Music With Linux and CD’s

March 8, 2026 Tony Burgess Leave a comment

I have been making music in a way by taking some of our CD’s and ripping them to my digital collection on my laptop. I have been using the Linux program Rhythmbox to import the music and then visually organizing the albums on Gnome Music where I will play them from.

Furthermore, I am saving them in the open source Ogg Vorbis format and tagging them so they can have the album art can be found online and embedded to each title. They won’t be going online for sharing just so that people with power will know it will be for personal use only. This is a retro way of doing things I would imagine, but it is fun.

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From Nerd Corner – Figuring Out Fedora

March 7, 2026 Tony Burgess 1 Comment

I reinstalled the Fedora Linux operating system yesterday and I have been settling in by downloading programs and importing files. Some stuff didn’t look right but with a Google search and some very light copying and pasting into the terminal things are looking and working good.