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Donnie Barnes

@donniebarnes.com
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Former Red Hat employee #2. Cofounder of Linux Hardware Solutions (living on inside GameStop). Raconteur. I dink therefore I am.

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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 03/10/2026
UNC is Motrin…for real. Talk about self-aware.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 30/09/2026
Bluesky requires you to engage back to get engagement. You mostly just throw things at the Bluesky wall and walk away.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 27/09/2026
Lose tonight and he might not make it till Monday.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 27/09/2026
No reason to be. That’s not the worst thing to ever happen, and not even the worst thing I’ve experienced if I’m being honest. It needs to be normalized, IMHO. We need to talk about it and we need to be willing to make tough decisions. I’m lucky in so many ways! Just not that one.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 27/09/2026
My parents divorced before I was two. I had to do it to one of them before I was 18, then she died when I was 21. I’m 53 now and had to do it to the other one about five years ago. In both cases I should have done it sooner. Sigh.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 19/09/2026
Same here. Saved me a bunch of money and got things covered that weren’t.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 15/09/2026
We used to have 0298AT and 0299BP and 0300BP. Still have the latter two, I think. Was a funky coincidence getting 0298AT.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 11/09/2026
I feel like something more simple…I just go with “raconteur.”
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 11/09/2026
If he thought for a second we would vote for him to lead us into Communism he’d take that and run so fast….
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 10/09/2026
11 hours? I’m pretty sure I would have pulled the trigger at the $833! I am tall and I am wimp tho.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 09/09/2026
Does stalking you tend to work or nah? Asking for a podcasting friend.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 05/09/2026
Also this topic would make for really good podcast material. *cough*
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 05/09/2026
Look up “funeral potatoes.” It’s a generic term for potato casserole and it’s usually easy and also easy to customize.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 04/09/2026
Whoa that looks like a fun little go-kart track
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 02/09/2026
We are a truly and painfully stupid country.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 01/09/2026
They had no competition. 2005 Illinois was better than probably every other champ team from 2000 to 2026 too.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 01/09/2026
Funny how many people say 2009 UNC when that isn’t even the best UNC team of the era. 2005 is.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 29/08/2026
I tuned in for this and I gotta say, it was kind of amazing. I’m still not sure it’s enough to make people watch sports that way since so much sports watching is with other people, but damn. It was incredible.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 28/08/2026
Close enough! Lol.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 28/08/2026
Now you have to say something nice about pickleball. 😂
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 28/08/2026
You were quite literally the last person I enjoyed watching on local news. I wasn’t even ever really an ABC11 fan in general, but at some point I switched because you were there and then have stopped all local TV news consumption since you left.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 26/08/2026
We had her way longer than we deserved and not nearly long enough.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 26/08/2026
I can not understand how anyone gives that guy a platform. It’s wild.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 25/08/2026
There’s finally a ROM burner with some OSX software and I have one coming in the morning. Thank heavens for that development.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 25/08/2026
Oh, and I still don’t know if it works because it turns out neither device has the proper software version for linking. And updating them is going to require burning a dozen EPROMs and some disassembly and reassembly. Turns out I no longer have to fire up my 20yo Toughbook and Windows because
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 25/08/2026
Also someone still needs to clean up a pile of RS-232 cables on the floor.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 25/08/2026
Today in the year 2026 I needed to connect two devices with a null modem 25 pin serial cable. I’ve never thrown away any of that stuff and yet I had to dig for a half hour to find the right cable, adapter, and two gender changers. Felt like old times. And not in a good way.
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Jeremy Markovich @ncrabbithole.com · 21/08/2026
Of all the uncles out there, this man may have been the uncle-est. The uber uncle. www.ncrabbithole.com/p/the-limous...
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The Limousine-Driving Playboy Uncle who created “Big T!ts Potato Chips”
Every so often, a picture of an old bag of potato chips rockets around the internet. But how do we know it’s real? How did it get the name? And did the people who came up with it actually know what th...
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
lol finally an NIL story that doesn't suck www.jsonline.com/story/sports...
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Marquette freshman volleyball player has hot-selling '6 Beers' jersey
Marquette volleyball player Allie Beers is learning that her last name is a money-making asset in the NIL space of NCAA sports.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 18/08/2026
The most important change in 27 is that PhotoKit now gives third party developers access to your stored captions along with photos. Fight me.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 18/08/2026
Thanks now I want pbnj tho
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 17/08/2026
Life on the wild side!!
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 10/08/2026
Exceptional post here.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are trans athletes in youth sports.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 09/08/2026
Reminds me of this kid I saw a few days ago. Obviously his problem is a tad worse.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 06/08/2026
Don’t make Dennis angry. He could still go set a new record!
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 06/08/2026
Lol. NOW we see why you didn’t join us!!! Shifty shifty move. 😂
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 05/08/2026
Heh, I swear I think my phone did that. I knew that.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 05/08/2026
Heyyyyy you got it this time! Banff for a couple days. Been on the train for two days from Vancouver (with a stop in Kamploops). F’n gorgeous.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 05/08/2026
Not even the right province!
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 05/08/2026
Canadian view from my bed rn.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 04/08/2026
GOP needs boogeymen. It’s so pathetic.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 02/08/2026
Weird thing is prices of what I call “building blocks” as well as their quality, variety, and availability, are ASTOUNDINGLY low. If you’re so inclined you can make some amazing things these days. The tools might still be a bit middle to upper middle class, but also getting cheap fast.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 01/08/2026
*glares* at Mae’s workshop…
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 31/07/2026
Then a lady with an infant shows up for A. I feel so bad. So far the baby is fine and he’s still being nice. It’s a very short flight, too. But still.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 31/07/2026
Boarded a flight with my wife. I think we got the last two seats in FC but were split…3B and 3D. Wife hits D, I hit B, before anyone else is on. Dude comes in for C and I ask if he minds switching with me (an aisle is an aisle). Very chipper he says “no problem!” and we switch. 1/2
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 31/07/2026
Oh what a lovely podcast this would make. I’m ready to start anytime. Well except this week because I’m traveling to fire-ridden Canada this week.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 31/07/2026
Damn. More warning would have been nice. Now I have no time to fit in any cheaper sessions!
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 29/07/2026
In a restaurant right now that has professional tennis on tv and there are ZERO spectators in the stands. I mean NOBODY. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
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Donnie Barnes @donniebarnes.com · 29/07/2026
@mkramer.bsky.social Friend of yours?
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