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@ile: a well-used motorcycle, I presume?
Creative; we’ve not seen too many of them recently, though roki has shared many photos in the past with motorcycles and various images with the machinery.
Thanks!
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@ile very nice.
The flowers look good on my laptop and always love bike shots.
Here is one of the Rio Grande River in New Mexico.Brian Masinick
@linuxdaddy: I like this Rio Grande Resized & Scaled image as an alternative to my usual Cumberland Falls, Corbin, Kentucky waterfall background.
I’ll keep both of them handy for my new laptop, which I’m configuring with a couple of distributions, hopefully including antiX as long as I’m able to get it functioning on this system by configuring AHCI instead of SATA in the boot information screen at startup. Hopefully I can get antiX and MX Linux to boot. Had the best success in my minimal test set with a new version of PCLinuxOS, which runs well on the hardware, and I like it too, but I was hoping to have Debian, MX Linux and antiX as my 3 initial systems; maybe I’ll get there once I conquer the peculiarities of my latest hardware.
Curiously I have fewer problems with old classic hardware than stuff over the past 5-6 years. When I got my next newest laptop around 2015 I had to deal with UEFI and GPT for the first time. Now that’s old hat stuff but having to get yet another set of boot configuration schemes figured out on yet another newer generation system posed more issues for me than putting old software on 10-15 year old systems that represent the heart of the most productive part of my career – when I was at the height of my experience before aging, getting out of touch with the latest hardware and software (though I do my best to “keep up”) and the latest start-up schemes.
The new hardware is way faster, now comparable to my fast, recent Chromebook and my fast smartphone, definitely faster than the other laptops. If I am successful in getting my favorite distributions working, it’s possible that my testing days, while not completely over, may take a back seat to enjoying retirement and the simple things of life, while my distro testing may be a part time hobby. We’ll see what happens; that’s where it’s been trending recently. I’ll still replace Windows with freely available software until the next generation of freely available technology gives us something else or the priorities of every day retirement take even greater priority.
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I didn’t have much success getting any of the older distributions installed on my new system, so I decided to stick with antiX on my Dell Inspiron 5558 and a couple of other old machines, where it excels, and experiment with a few other distros on the hardware with the SSD; I also need a firmware reset, so that’s a project for another time.
Regarding the images here, I was indeed able to utilize a couple on the new hardware, even without antiX, plus I saved lots of them on my 5558!
The Rio Grande image is now on the Acer Aspire 5; I want to make sure to get a few of ile’s images saved too! Thanks to everyone in this thread for your images; I have a lot of fun saving them and trying them out.
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LikkMii
hHhHhahahah Sorry, I HAD too
Here is photos of two butterflies.
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More fine natural beauty and the observant eye of a good photographer!
Thanks linuxdaddy!
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Brian Masinickthanks Brian,
had time to edit a few new photos. Here is one of Olive kitty.
I can get the nice green blur for the background since it rained
recently here for the plants to grow.Brian Masinick
you’re welcome Brian.
here is a photo of a wooden train bridge in NM off I-25. It was
taken while going down the freeway at 75 mph out the window with
a nikon d-3200 … nikon 55-200mm vr lens done “point and click” style.christophe
Nice picture, as always. 🙂
I love seeing deserted roads & railroads. I don’t know why. Maybe because we only see them in the wilderness, where the old land they took isn’t needed for something else, so they just leave them.
And a mystery. That’s what this seems to be — because why a bridge without water? Where is the the water?
Do you know what it is about?
- This reply was modified 1 year, 9 months ago by christophe.
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