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.
Rhythmbox
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.
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.
I must say that the vanilla Gnome desktop environment experience is good and allows for modifications. Figuring stuff out is exciting.
We ordered pizza from Domino’s for dinner tonight. The delivery driver who did a good job saw the Linux t-shirt I was wearing, and we struck up a very short conversation about our favorite distro. He said he was a casual Linux Mint user while I am a Zorin OS guy myself. It’s cool when nerds find connections with one another.
Black History Month is an annually observed commemorative month originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. It is to remember important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. Without African people, the world wouldn’t be the same. So many good things have come from our African neighbors and friends. It’s a good and right thing to celebrate all the things this community has contributed to America and the world.
My first computer was a Commodore Vic 20 which preceded the popular Commodore 64. It was a Christmas gift to me in 1982. I loved that machine because you could learn to program and play games. It was an 8-bit system, and it used a cassette tape drive and cartridges like a video game. It was also at a great price point of under $300 at the time. Furthermore, it really did a great job of getting technology to the people. Thanks to my mom and dad for gifting it to me and making me a happy boy.
An advertisement for the Vic 20 featuring William Shatner.
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