2022 was a year of distrust.

Everyone distrusts “the other party”. No one trusts the government or the media.

Crypto was revealed for the scam it so obviously was.

Elon Musk bought Twitter and ravaged it. Or saved it, depending on your political leanings.

Facebook, I mean Meta, Faceplanted with the Metaverse. A name they stole from Neal Stephenson without credit, by the way.

ChatGPT taught us that AI can write extremely convincing gibberish almost instantly.

So what are we to do?

Bring Back Blogging!

One initiative is to bring back blogging and RSS Feed Readers.

It is truly frightening how easily our opinions can be swayed by the algorithms of social media sites that are geared not to inform us or entertain us, but to engage us so we will continue consuming their ads. The more we argue and fight, the more we refuse to stop scrolling and thereby consuming their ads.

So how about we go back to algotrithm free browsing? Back to a time when WE chose who we wanted to hear from and what we wanted to read.

The Bring Back Blogging website is encouraging people to do just that. They are asking for bloggers to commit to publishing three posts in January 2023.

I've submitted both this site, jeffa.tech, and my other site Galactic Beacon.

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Things have been feeling a bit stale for me lately. I've used Windows since version 3.0 and when the Windows 11 advisor told me it didn't want to run on my older hardware, I decided to try some Linux distros again.

I've used Ubuntu off and on for many years, but I wanted to try something different, so here I am on Fedora 36.

Fedora is an open source distro that originated with and is sponsored by RedHat. It has been getting good reviews lately on YouTube with lots of Ubuntu users trying it out. My first Linux experience was with RedHat (loooooong ago).

That's all great, but how is it for working on a dotnet app like GatorSmile CMS?

Read on to find out.

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