FYI all, there's a big article (NYT) hitting all the news wires now about Apple products and Pegasus Spyware, "the Holy Grail of surveillance" (per the article)

NEW - Facebook shields millions of "VIP users" from the company’s standard content moderation practices in a program called "XCheck," according to internal documents obtained by the WSJ.

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We are getting questions from some of you who registered for the class this morning, asking what day we start. As soon as we fill the registration (probably later tonight) we will be syncing your email address with our LMS (Learning Management System) software we purchased for the class, and you will get a notification. We hoping to start later this week, possibly Wednesday, Thursday is more realistic. If you saw a confirmation page at check-out, you are in.

Virtual seats for our "Linux for Beginners" course are now 65% filled. If you want to start off with the rest of our group this week, now is the time to register. Here is the link --> learn.jeff.pro

See you at tonight's "Ask and Answer" Linux audio Livestream with Will Welker, here @ 8:00pm EST!

Thank you All for such a great and informative audio conference! Thank you JP and team, you are a tremendous blessing!!

@Jptchat Can you do a poll everyday to see how many were able to make the switch? This is so cool that you put the information out there and empowered people. The amount of innovation that will come from just that small message is going to bring amazing things!!! ❤️❤️ Empower the people to be free! ❤️🏆

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Were you able to get Linux?
Yes I learned how to do a dual boot
Yes I fully switched
I already had it
No, I need help
No, I need someone to do it for me
I'm not planning on it

I fully switched to Linux about 20 years ago. I'm very happy to see so many people today interested in making this change. Don't be discouraged!

I'm new to Linux, but am happy to help where I can. It's a learning curve, but a very fun journey

Here is a audio recording of tonight's Telegram voice call for those who were not able to be there live. Will Welker, one of our Technology chat room admins, is a North Idaho Farmer with 400 chickens, who has Linux skills that put the Silicon Valley snobs to shame. Tonight: Will & JP answered questions live from our subscribers. Eric speaks up about the chat room bot banning him, JP apologizes to Eric, and then a few people had questions about the Linux for Beginners course.

Best wishes to you, Patriots, as you set out to discover the very exciting world of Free and Open Source technology. If you, like many other Americans who love their country, are ready to leave the spying and abuses of the "big tech" Windows/MacOS/Android operating systems, Linux is Digital Freedom!

Follow -> @Jeffrey_Peterson

Almost filled Only 7 Virtual seats left for our first Linux for Beginners Course (as of 11:45pm EST). Register here if you want to study with our group (ongoing monthly course, starts later this week) -> learn.jeff.pro

I DID IT, WOW! I downloaded Ubuntu to a flash drive, tested it, then cleared out the hard drive and installed on an HP Envy. I followed that youtube video that some of you have posted. Now I've got telegram installed, the wifi works, I'm so excited. Took all night! Now for some experimenting! Maybe after a nap.

Been using it for years, fired Google in 2017, MS in 2018 and now looking to get Apple out of the way.

Hey all, first of all you guys are brilliant and it’s awesome to see the “the great tech escape” live and in action 😂
I’m installing linux on a 2009 iMac and I downloaded etcher but it wanted a later os than my iMac has. Downloading 10.11 now but is there something other than etcher that is recommended to flash os images?

Loving this telegram channel. Awesome job.

My 2 cents. I used to System Admin using Ubuntu. Highly recommend Linux to everyone, very powerful and so many benefits. My job now requires Windows... And it honestly sucks going from Linux to windows. Windows is incredibly overrated.

I’m so confused! Linux the versus Ubuntu vs mint. Someone please clarify!

They are very similar. Mint is actually based on Ubuntu but made to be a little more user friendly. Either way you won't go wrong and it is easy to change if you ever want to.