Eric Chaskes

Why did I become a professor? Why do I create so much accessible educational content? Why do I give everything away for free? Because I’m #FirstGen — and my entire path began with a single, unexpected moment at a gas station in Canada. I was a high school kid with no direction when an engineering student struck up a conversation on a freezing evening. They reached out, traced the Carnot cycle PV diagram in the frost on my windshield, and explained engine efficiency right there in the cold. That simple act — a stranger sharing knowledge freely — changed my life. It lit the spark that set me on the road to becoming an engineer, and eventually a professor. Education transformed my world, and it’s been my north star ever since. You can read more of my story here: michaelpyrcz.com/my-story #WhatStartsHere #FirstGenWeek

Dear Friends and Software Freedom Lovers, It is with great pleasure that we announce the release of Devuan Excalibur 6 as our newest stable release. devuan.org/os/announce/ex… Many thanks to our team of volunteers for their invaluable community work. Live long & prosper🖖!

Fighting the good fight.

Enjoying my 2017 21" iBuntu. Perfect as my Salesforce dev computer for work.

@AkJn99 Just bought this last week

Damn I love this book

A fresh install of Fedora 41 KDE uses 2.8 GB of RAM on boot. I mean, that's a lot. I killed Discover and Akonadi services to bring it down under 2 GB, but those services are a big part of using KDE

If more developers ran Linux on their desktop, maybe they wouldn't be so petrified of running a server by themselves. We are unlearning the basics of the Internet at an alarming rate.

Trying Fedora Atomic Desktop for the first time...

Put Tumbleweed on my Thinkpad X230, which still has some life in it. Ready to refresh my long unused C/C++ skills, refresh python and javascript, learn rust, and be ready to contribute to @OpenELAorg

@scrumtuous War tech in the modern age moves fast. 6 years from invention of congreve to Fort McHenry. Similarly, first Wright Bro flight in 1903. About 10 years later, a mechanism to time machine gun fire to the propeller spin was invented

@EricChaskes Interesting!

The US National Anthem was written in 1814.🇺🇸 It talks about "the rocket's red glare." 🚀🎇🔥 How advanced was rocket technology in 1814?🤔 Like did they actually have rockets at the turn of the 19th century? 🤷‍♀️

Help Us Honor Prof. Thomas Meixner's Legacy launch.umd.edu/project/36155?…

Installing @debian 12 Bookworm. Excited to see 2 accessible versions of the installer: 1) high contrast/large text 2) with speech synthesis

Huh, since when is find in an MS Office VBA code editor case sensitive?

@tecmint 10

on a scale 1-10, how much you enjoy #Linux?

Our all-AMD Pangolin laptop is arriving soon. The 144 Hz display is gorgeous and the keyboard feels great. I’ve been on 14” displays for a while. It’s nice to have extra real-estate on the 15.6”.

@frobnosticus That kind of hardware device driver is beyond my experienc, but yeah it's intriguing

@frobnosticus It's not a keyboard, but a special touchpad able to recognize certain areas as numbers. I tried it briefly in win and worked well, but it's one of those oem/msoft partnerships. Maybe linux people will reverse engineer it eventually