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/excal… 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.

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

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?

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”.

Picked up a $99 (on sale) laptop with eMMC storage. Using it to dd Fedora 37 to a usb, which, of course, is now /dev/sda.... Getting used to typing of=/dev/sda on this machine is definitely not going to be a problem when I switch back to a laptop with a regular HD 🤣

Yes! Fedora linux 37 is now officially GO for next Tuesday.

Just discovered @DatLinux for data science. Will definitely install this distro