I have just sent my 186th episode of Full Circle Weekly News, an audio podcast, to Ronnie Tucker for publishing. I started doing these in April of 2021, after Leo Chavez decided to give it up and recommended me for the position. I had been working with Leo on mintCast since October 2018, so he may have known what he was doing.

This is a group project. EriktheUnready collects the news articles at his home in South Africa, sends them to me. I edit them into a more readable format,...

I learned that Robert Wiley, the lead dev on the Bodhi Linux project, was still using a 2007 model Sager laptop, which was in the process of dying. I offered my backup laptop, a 2014 Lenovo ThinkPad T540p, if that would help, and he accepted. I dropped it off at UPS on Friday, and he should have it on Monday.

I'm trying to cut back on equipment. After sending that laptop to Ylee, we still have 3 laptops and two working (+1 not working) ThinkCentre M700 Tony boxes, plus a RPi 3 (and...

I know I don't post here often. Don't have that much to say other than what goes into my 3 podcasts. But lately, I've been having trouble with Linux Mint 21.2 and LMDE 6, sound problems above all but also problems running Discord (from flatpak).

And ya know, all these issues go away when I boot into Bodhi.

For several years now, Bodhi has been my "fun" distro, but I default to Mint when I need to get work done. The past few weeks, getting work done in Mint...

I haven't posted here for quite a while. Since joining mintCast in 2018, I have recorded 88 episodes of that podcast, over 100 of Full Circle Weekly News, and am preparing for my 43rd episode of Distrohoppers' Digest. I finally got my first citation in Wikipedia, as Full Circle Magazine has a page and I got mentioned for being the host of FCWN. I'm amazed that mintCast does not have a Wikipedia page, as it has been around nearly as long as Full Circle Magazine.
My computers in use include...

I've been almost a week behind in my weekly news podcast, Full Circle Weekly News, but that was caused by the fact that I'm not the one who uploads it to the feeds and the guy who does was on vacation. I should be almost caught up tomorrow, just in time for another week's worth of news.

I'm a bit saddened by the fact that Tony Hughes is stepping down from microphone duties on Distrohoppers' Digest. He will, for the time being, remain as the audio editor for the show.

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