Ubuntu and Mint on a Intel NUC

I bought a NUC without a hard disk and only 8GB RAM.

Intel's  visual secure boot is a bit of a pain.

I am not sure one can dual boot but it has option for Windows and Linux at boot time.

Both Ubuntu 21 and Ubuntu derivative Mint are running sleekly in the box.

I haven't got Steam 3 to test the games.

NUC bottom is for the SATA have disk.

It has power cable and data cable both are tiny.

It runs at 18 Watt capacity when not running games.

NUC top consists of integrated Graphics, System and there are two slots for memory.

It is very quiet when running.

I bought it to cut on my electricity bill.

It has WiFi, unlike my old PC in which, I have to stick a USB Huawei Mobile unit (with a SIM card).

I bought it from Lanka Bell but Lanka Bell service did not reach out house.

Both Linux distributions  booting with a  USB stick avoid proprietary codec utilities but guess, one can download them after installation.

I am not sure whether one has to pay for some utilities which I have no objection to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu guys and girls also have to pay for their rice and curry at a time of global meltdown and food crisis.

There is no free meal which is a saying in UK and I am not sure what Biden''s War machine is saying in America to poor Americans.

May be buy your our own food from Odessa in Ukraine as mercinaries.

Well they can join Ukraine as mercinaries which is already well into action with more than 70% of Ukrainians who are deactivated (in other words dead or injured).

CNN, BBC and FOX News deliberately count down on casualties and if they are not down why are they asking new recruits from abroad?

President Putin is up to it and there is numerical superiority probably 1 to 3 and incrementally rising.

It was not so during early phase of the invasion.

When we had LTTE War we were asked to tighten our belts and my belt had being tight all my life (over work) but after retirement my belly is no more flat but bulging.

That applies (obesity) to all our members including the domestic aid.

I am thankful to Ranil and Combo very soon we will need belts.

I am specially thankful to President Putin, the problem of obesity, he solved without firing a single bullet in the direction of America but unfortunate guys in X-elensky Zone will have sleepless and hungry nights.

This what the war brings but during our ethnic problems we were including LTTE were very well fed.

Not anymore in Ceylon.

Mint has overtaken Ubuntu

Yes Linux Mint has overtaken Ubuntu.

I hated it by being an avid free software addict and never used Mint with commercial codecs in the past.

Time has changed, I have softened and I still say Ubuntu's ESP Utility is FAB and if not for that I would have given up with Ubuntu and stuck only with Debian.

One word about Intel NUC, it only supports USBs of high capacity and one cannot boot from an external SATA connected with a USB 2 or ?3.

I had a 320GB old (not SATA) with corrupt boot record.

I installed Ubuntu and Mint.

I still have 200GB left.
Unlike Apple and Windows, Linux does not have bloatware.

That is it's beauty.

Trying to boot with Debian 15 series was a total failure on the external disk.

But Debian is running superbly on the NUC with WiFi connection.

It does not have Abiword but Emmabantus come and fill up that gap in depreciating and old packages.

I believe for another 5 to 10 years these utilities should remain and we have not recovered from the pandemic but we are going to get hit worse by economics.

Turning to Linux, even this late will bring healthy outcomes.

Thanks Linus Torvalds you are a real Gentleman!

DO NOT throw away old gadgets at least DONATE to schools in the third world.

Justice, Violence and Politics in Ceylon

I have two pieces here on Justice and Violence in Ceylon.

I have avoided politics in Ceylon, since there is not a soul left in Ceylon to get us out of the current plight.

They are all out there to pocket the money to their pockets and nothing filter to the voters who elected them.

When voters (65% of them) are stupid as they are, they deserve one meal a day.

Then only the blood would floor to their brains (physiological reaction to impending hypoglycemia).

All this happened under Sirima and NM and this is history repeating itself but in more devastating terms.

Printing money won't help.

We need commodities in real time.

Screen printing (money and objects) by a printer that prints is good only for America.

By the way, printing has gone up by as almost 500% and school copy books are out of stock and very pricely.

Of course, we did not have power outages, then.

Power outages happened under Premadasa  and I was working with Internationals and they could not operate computers in Digana and we packed them to Hotel Galadari.

These Americans if they do not have Internet connectivity especially for their spyware to which Israel ably helping 😶Americans think world does not exist in the far East especially in Russia and Petersburg Square.

The world is now upside down and Putin and Ruble will start ruling the world.

The upsurge of dollar is going to be temporary.

Come next Winter not this winter Germany and EU will be on the verge of collapse with non menstruating (they do not have feeling when in menopause) women running the financial affairs.

These women are greedy and pocket money to their own pockets, only.

The other term is futuristic investments, not volatile stock markets.

They are all not rice eating nations and Asians will feel the impact of global economic collapse both with wheat flour and rice flour shortages.

I have been living without rice for 15 years (chemical poisoned rice allergy) and currently without chocolates.

I have substituted Tea and Sugar on the hand (Called Alle Kema).

The Ceylon Wonder (with monks advising) is going to be that spirits will go up by 300% in mid October and that alone is enough to change any political power.

In Sirima's time it was Bread or American Piti that made JRJ in very old age to come to power.

By the way, I signed his last blood report as dead report and came home by train and by the time the train  reached Ragama, white flags were coming up.

It is going to be black flags this time round.

I will switch to my Linux piecee and New Physics from now onwards.

Politics is very fluid and bane to me.

Excuse the typos my regular cellphones are dead with no data from MobiTel and Dialog.

This is coming from Hutch.