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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Good @flutter.dev and FFI talk, thank you very much to Morgan McKenzie, essentially interfacing foreign languages, etc to Dart.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

George introduces Matt Meades talking about the Tewke Tap at @flutterldn.dev mentions yocto #RaspberryPi and embedding hardware, even SystemD 😀

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Ben Guerin talking on : How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Claude Code Write the Python, at @pydatalondon.bsky.social Very lively talk, mentions pubs a lot!

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

First talk tonight at @pydatalondon.bsky.social Nicoleta Lazar on Query federation in modern OLAP databases

Lady at lectern close by a presentation screen

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Oh yeah, I saw in the sunrise from #London and it’s pretty miserable and cold today. 🥶

A screenshot of the Met Office app showing London and very poor temperatures down to as low as 4°

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

An marvellous event from the @golang.org and @rust-lang.org London community groups. Thanks to Ernest and Fergus. 😀👍

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Over at the @rust-lang.org London and #GoLang #Xmas do at Red Badger. Very popular and well organised.

Seated people in a packed room in front of a large screen.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It was a magnificent antidote to London, the weather was excellent 20 to 24°. Incredibly safe in Jerusalem, a very good vibe. Excellent for walking around and a bit of exercise. A surprise an amount of greenery.

The view from Yad Vashem, Jerusalem. Overlooking pine tree .

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Good morning from a mild London Just enjoying a rather decent Irish tea out of my new favourite #Jerusalem mug.

A tea mug with Jerusalem on it, next to a black Amazon mouse in front of a black keyboard and various bits of clutter on the desk behind it.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Well Mike, sightseeing mostly, enjoying the weather in Jerusalem, fascinating place, immensely courteous people and oodles of history (just up my street!) 😁

A shrine within the church of the holy sepulchre in the old city of Jerusalem.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Good morning from a crisp but sunny #London. I drink my second cuppa from my new favourite memento of my stay in Jerusalem!

A white mug with a print of the old city of Jerusalem on the front of it, a black keyboard and mouse nearby.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A big thanks to @lernerpython.com We met in Jerusalem yesterday had a delicious burger and chips, my very first proper meal in #Israel and it was delicious. He is such an engaging and intelligent person, in person. Very privileged to meet him. 😃

A very happy gentleman smiling in a restaurant in Jerusalem. Tables and chairs abound.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Still, there is a serious question about, why would one spend energy making an old & very slow SBC (small board computer) run local AI models? Easy, if it can be done on such antiquated hardware then imagine what's possible with quality processors & good GPUs? Local AI/agents will positively FLY!

A Linux glances screenshot, showing CPU and other performance figures on an old Nvidia Xavier NX run a llama server.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I had great fun/a bit of annoyance getting my old #Nvidia Xavier NX to run llama.cpp decently Initially 4 tokens per second but after a lot of optimisation/fiddling with cmake now peaks at about 23 t/s Thank to @jeffgeerling.com for the inspiration of resuscitating old ARM CPUs as #AI local boxes

A screenshot of llama server working on an Nvidia Xavier NX which serves up the IBM granite model.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A fantastic Friday to everyone. It is a little overcast in #London, but apparently that might clear up later but I’m having a stupendous 2nd cup of tea. So all in all, not a bad day 😁

A tea cup on a paper tissue, near a keyboard, on a sandy colored desk.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

An excellent good afternoon to everyone from the bowels of London! The weather is damp, but the spirits are high. My #Nvidia Xavier NX is purring like a kitten! Thanks to Graham at #SiliconHighway www.siliconhighway.com

An Nvidia Xavier NX enclosed in a nice metal case from Yahboom, on a sandy coloured bookshelf with an external USB hub connected and power cord.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Ubuntu Pro is a good idea when you're forced to run older #Ubuntu releases. Plus it is mostly free (of sorts, read the T&Cs)

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I am astonished. I didn’t cut my hand, break the rather delicate board or obviously ruin anything. 💦😅 It powered up and it’s rather cute, thank you team #Yahboom

A Yahboom, metal and acrylic enclosure with lights a fan and a very nice Xavier NXinside

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

I’m going to shoehorn the Nvidia Xavier NX into a Yahboom enclosure, wish me luck 😩🙏 A bit tricky, but I’m glad I did Mecano as a youngster!

A cardboard box exterior of the cube nano from Yahboom.

A desk with a small cloth and then electrical equipment on top with a small keyboard in the corner

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

It looks small and inconsequential, but this is the key to getting the NX working as a useful headless #Linux box. It is a dummy HDMI adapter.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

A very good morning from a chilly but sunny #London The paraphernalia below is an old Nvidia Xavier NX that I re-commissioned up again, to boot off of the SSD, along with a very battered and ancient HP i5 running Lubuntu 18.04.5. 😩😀

An Nvidia NX on a white cotton sheet surrounded by cables and a very broken Hewlett Packard I i5 laptop.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Not always wise to start fiddling with hardware at 11 pm in the evening. But this is the third case I’ve got for the NX and I really wanted to tidy the box away. For that, I’ve gotta put in the SSD properly & commission up the SDK manager. I suspect trickiest thing will be finding a cable 😩😂

A table cluttered with an Nvidia small ball computer and a case along with assorted cables.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Good morning from Casa Linuxing. London is overcast and damp, but the #Nvidia Xavier NX is halfway working. And I’m just about to start my 2nd cuppa 😃

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It’s a lovely kit, but one of the screws on the laptop simply refused to move and now I’ve moved onto the next thing: I should’ve done six months ago. Recommission up my Nvidia Xavier NX, SSD fixed, but will it fit the enclosure? 🫣

An Nvidia Xavier NX computer on a silvery antistatic bag with various cables plugged into it

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

It is an astonishingly good kit from @ifixit.com (I do like buying quality tech but I had forgotten until today, and how long I had spent studying the reviews) 🙏😉

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I treated myself to an @ifixit.com toolkit ages ago and now I’m going to see if it lives up to the hype (I hope so!) 😁 It’s a lot bigger than I thought.

An Ifixit pro tech tool kit on a sandy colored table.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Good afternoon from a pleasant #London A few clouds in the sky, but otherwise nice and bright. One of my Alexa devices tells me it's 15 degrees centigrade (the other one says about 59° f, I doubt that is accurate)🌻

A slightly light set of white clouds over London in late October 2025.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

A beautifully sunny day in Londinium. A little chilly, but nice and bright

The photograph contains a largely blue sky with streaky white clouds at the bottom, it was taken in London.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A bit of #bluesky is down, seemingly, the last time that happened my messages here worked for five minutes.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Good afternoon, London is chilly (my two adjacent Alexa devices tell me it’s either 12°C or 56°F) But the tea is warm, I managed to beat Windows 10 are submission and the Vivobook 16 run a decent version of Linux, a good day 👍😁

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

An overcast day in London but not completely bad. My tea is dry, oozing caffeine, listening to some Così fan tutte and my (semi replacement) laptop is mostly commissioned up with #SparkyLinux, just need to put it behind the monitor and keyboard. Decent😀

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Good afternoon from a slightly overcast and chily London. But not necessarily a bad day as I've had two excellent cups of Barry's #Irish tea, and been fiddling with #Linux pleasantly 😁

A kettle on a kitchen surface adjacent to a pineapple juice container, some creatine in a big jar and a large red box of Barry's gold tea.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

#London is a little cloudy today and hasn't decided what it wants to do, but my afternoon #Irish tea is particularly delicious so I am very relaxed. 😁

A black keyboard with a white tea mug in front of it. The sandy coloured table contains some USB sticks and close by is a black rooter and external mouse.

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Heard that one day, @perplexingly.bsky.social will eventually support Linux in their #Comet browser? Any chance, this side of 2026? 😄

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Afternoon from London! Just sat through the most marvelous rehearsals of the magic flute😃🎶

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The next talk was Richard Hickling on why Python is the best language for algorithmic trading, nice at @pydatalondon.bsky.social

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Next at @pydatalondon.bsky.social Superb game related flash talk, basically : Can LLMs Play Go by Victor Zommers

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BrianLinuxing (on threads too!) 🇮🇪 @brianlinuxing.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

John and Ian at @pydatalondon.bsky.social doing the speaker’s switchover, and the events has its own musicians. It is great fun.

Two men at a lectern, which has a big M.

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