31 Oct
2023
31 Oct
'23
3:30 p.m.
Fedora 38 and Fedora 25. I also saw chess.org has online chess, but I didn't take the
plunge because I figured there would be ads. Maye I'll look into it, but I hate
supporting the whole IoT nickel and dime philosophy that seems to be prevalent. I need a
subscription to use my wireless camera. Really?
-Gary
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 05:22:02AM +0000, Allan Heim wrote:
Apologies, I'm not a chess guy, but have you
looked at https://lichess.org/ ? I hear it's pretty slick, and completely free, but
it's online only, of course.
And I have to ask, what distro and version are you running?
31 Oct
31 Oct
4:08 p.m.
New subject: Complexity .....and Chess
Fedora 38 and Fedora 25.
I would expect latest
and greatest Fedora to have that, strange. I see Debian has fairymax, so presumably
downstream distros will, too. Not exactly a solution, I know.
I also saw chess.org has online chess, but I didn't
take the plunge because I figured there would be ads.
I don't see any ads on
chess.org, and Lichess doesn't run ads or trackers:
https://lichess.org/ads
Maybe I'll look into it, but I hate supporting the
whole IoT nickel and dime philosophy that seems to be prevalent. I need a subscription to
use my wireless camera. Really?
Oh, I'm with you there. I bought a big, fancy blender (Vitamix?) for my mother a few
years ago; it has Bluetooth and can be run via an app. Pointless! That's why I'm
leery of drones and other gadgets that use smartphone apps as interfaces, is my
information being siphoned to a server in Shanghai? And I'm now dependent on a
smartphone to do anything?
4:09 p.m.
New subject: Complexity .....and Chess
Since when do cameras have wires? How long was I asleep...
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 9:31 AM Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
Fedora 38 and Fedora 25. I also saw chess.org has
online chess, but I
didn't take the plunge because I figured there would be ads. Maye I'll
look into it, but I hate supporting the whole IoT nickel and dime
philosophy that seems to be prevalent. I need a subscription to use my
wireless camera. Really?
-Gary
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 05:22:02AM +0000, Allan Heim wrote:
Apologies, I'm not a chess guy, but have you
looked at
https://lichess.org/ ? I hear it's pretty slick, and completely free,
but
it's online only, of course.
And I have to ask, what distro and version are
you running?
_______________________________________________
Lug-nuts mailing list -- lug-nuts(a)bigbrie.com
To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave(a)bigbrie.com
8:15 p.m.
New subject: Complexity .....and Chess
I'm not real PC. Sometimes I actually refer to someone as a stewardess. But I think
they are called survalence cameras :) .
-Gary
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 10:09:56AM -0600, Linus Sphinx wrote:
Since when do cameras have wires? How long was I
asleep...
On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 9:31 AM Gary <saclug(a)garymcglinn.com> wrote:
> Fedora 38 and Fedora 25. I also saw chess.org has online chess, but I
> didn't take the plunge because I figured there would be ads. Maye I'll
> look into it, but I hate supporting the whole IoT nickel and dime
> philosophy that seems to be prevalent. I need a subscription to use my
> wireless camera. Really?
>
> -Gary
>
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 05:22:02AM +0000, Allan Heim wrote:
> > Apologies, I'm not a chess guy, but have you looked at
> https://lichess.org/ ? I hear it's pretty slick, and completely free, but
> it's online only, of course.
> > And I have to ask, what distro and version are you running?
> _______________________________________________
> Lug-nuts mailing list -- lug-nuts(a)bigbrie.com
> To unsubscribe send an email to lug-nuts-leave(a)bigbrie.com
>
4:31 p.m.
New subject: Complexity .....and Chess
Tried KDE "Knights" v2.6 (Slackware 15), selected
GNU Chess backend. Graphical front end is pretty
simple, seems to Just Work. Surprisingly, it speaks
the computer's moves.
556
days inactive
556
days old
4 comments
4 participants
participants (4)
-
Allan Heim -
Charles Polisher -
Gary -
Linus Sphinx