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title = "A month in, using ChromeOS only"
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As I pointed out <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2017/11/really-moving-in-on-the-chromebook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a while back </a>that I was moving to ChromeOS more seriously. Well, since Christmas day, I have parked my R810 to the side, and installed Chromium OS on my Lenovo X260 and started using it full time. What is Chromium OS? It is the open source version of ChromeOS.
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So far, everything has been working great. The only thing that has not worked for me is DRM protected video stream, things like Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Video. Not a major lost, but I missed it on a recent trip.
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The other major issue I have run into is photo processing and management. Under ChromeOS, there is not many options for this, only pure web-based solutions like Google Photos. There are some pretty decent solutions in the Android world. How does this help me? Well, the newer version of ChromeOS running on newer Chromebooks can run Android apps.
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Sadly, my Acer C720 and HP Chromebook 11 G1 are both too old to get the Android solutions. Additionally, both systems are starting showing their age in running modern web apps. So, my solution? I am buying a Google Pixelbook. I opted for the smaller of the versions which should have more than enough horsepower for me to run for many years. It arrives today, so I will be having some fun setting it up.
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I am shocked to look at the calendar, and realize that February is almost over.
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Where to begin? Well, the <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2018/01/a-month-in-using-chromeos-only/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">test with ChromeOS</a> is going well. I have found that I need the access to my <a href="https://www.duckland.org/category/hardware/r810/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">R810</a> less and less as I move things over to the <a href="https://www.duckland.org/category/os/chromeos/pixelbook/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pixelbook</a>. I have even found myself doing some light python coding on it. The flexibility and the speed is very nice. I have also been enjoying one of the major benefits of the Chromebook life style: major battery life. I can take my Pixel out of the bag when I get to the office and not plug it in all day, and still have a couple of hours of juice left over when I get home.
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On of the things that I am still not totally sure about is doing my photo workflow. I have been doing some reading, and finding a few tools to play with. To that end, I am going to set myself a challenge of taking, processing, and posting a photo at least once a week. As I get more comfortable, I might even move that up to many a week. It will be good to get back into that as I have done <a href="https://p365.donaldharper.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">that in the past</a>, but I did [fail the last time I tried daily](https://p365.donaldharper.com/posts/061-end-of-the-road/).
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The photo above is from my playing around with ‘Augmented Reality’ which is all the fade now days with ‘virtual stickers’ you can insert into photos.
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I had some time over the weekend, so I went through and cleaned up the links from the older posts as <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2017/08/welcome-to-the-new-look/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">promised a while back</a>. Amazingly, only <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2008/08/pizza-party-command-line-pizza-ordering-program/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">one</a> of the links is gone without a replacement.
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The good thing was most of the updates where to change the URL from https:// to https://, which I think is a good thing.
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The numbers are unbelievable. As I write this, we are 12 weeks into 2018, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/02/us/school-shootings-2018-list-trnd/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">there have been 17 school shootings in the US where someone was injured or killed</a>. 1.4 per week. And, if you look outside of schools, there have been to date <a href="https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/mass-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">50 mass shootings</a> where 4 or more people were injured or killed, not counting the shooter. 50 since January 1, 2018.
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Never Again.
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I plan to talk to my US and Texas Representatives and Senators about the issue. Yesterday, I went with my two oldest to the March For Our Lives protest in Houston. I am proud to say, it was my kids who wanted to go.
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Naturally, I took my camera and tried to capture the spirit of the event with photos of the signs and a couple of videos. They are posted in <a href="https://www.duckland.org/photos/Protests/2018-03-March-For-Our-Lives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the photos section</a>.
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We spent the last weekend in the Texas Hill Country, and I got a chance to wander a bit with the small camera. Still learning its limits and strengths.
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I did get some images I think I like.
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So, I decided that I did not like the performance of the site where I was hosting it, so I went over to <a href="https://m.do.co/c/5ad05843bb00" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital Ocean</a> (referral link).
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The process was pretty easy. I used the native tools to back up the old site, then after using the ‘one-click install’ process over at DO, I used the import function to import the backup. As an added bonus, the pictures and everything imported as well. After a few checks, I updated DNS, and bam! Running on new host with better performance. Easy-peasy.
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Also, I have turned off any integration with Facebook as I feel that they have not been good stewards of the data they collect.
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A little teaser. I have something new coming, but I am too busy right now, so here is a quick tease:<figure id="attachment_1398" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1398" style="width: 840px" class="wp-caption alignnone">
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As I <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2018/05/a-tease/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teased before</a>, I was back in the UK for some meetings. The original plan got all sideways when my main person I was meeting with left for paternity leave just before I got over there. No worries, as I was able to use the time to meet with others and get some good work done.
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This time, I brought my <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2014/06/rewards-for-hard-travel/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">main camera</a> over with me, and spent some of the downtime taking pictures, mainly in Bournemouth, as I was only in London for the Monday, and was in meetings all day.
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Anyway, here are some of the pictures I took. Enjoy!
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I upgrade my web host yesterday, and it seems that the web server bits got confused. I have fixed it, and now we are all good.
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I was reflecting on something today. 12 years ago today, I posted <a href="https://www.duckland.org/2006/06/what-do-i-use/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">something</a> on one of my first blogs (which has since been merged into this one).
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In the years in between, I have had two photo blogs which I did a very good job up updating on a regular basis.
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<a href="https://www.donaldharper.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">One of them</a>, I posted almost daily for around 8 years, with over 1950 posts.
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<a href="https://p365.donaldharper.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The other</a>, I took, processed, and posted a new picture every day for a little over a year back in 2009. I tried to restart it two years ago, and did not get nearly as far.
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This blog, I have not been doing as good of a job updating it (129 posts including this one in 12 years). But, I have tried to post at least once a month. Most of the time, I can make that. Sometimes, not as much.
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Thanks for being on the ride as I am try to make this a bit better and more interesting than the occasional travel pics.
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This past week, the family and I headed to San Antonio for the 4th of July holiday. I naturally wanted to take some photos, and we wanted to see some fireworks. In addition, the eldest wanted to start looking at college campuses.
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The trip was a lot of fun, and I did get some good photos (see below), but the weather did not cooperate for the fireworks. There was some serious rain in the afternoon, and the Powers That Be(TM) decided to cancel the displays.
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So, way [back in November](really-moving-in-on-the-chromebook), I decided to use ChromeOS has my main OS. And, then in [January](a-month-in-using-chromeos-only), I did a check-in on using ChromeOS for a month. Fast forward to-day, and I am still using my PixelBook as my daily driver for all things.
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I still use the [R810](/tags/r810) and the x260 to test new Linux distros just to see what is happening in that space, but not to do anything else.
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I still want to do some things via the command line, so for a while I was using Chromebrew to get by, but that has a couple of issues for me. The first is that a lot of what I wanted had not been ported to that system yet, so I had to go and build it. The second, and for me more important, was that to use it, I had to turn off some of the security built into ChromeOS to make it work. A couple of months ago, Google announced Project Crostini, which uses Linux containers to allow you to run a full Linux (default is Debian) image under ChromeOS, using all the default ChromeOS security, which makes it a big win in my book.
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Add on top of that, that the PixelBook can run most Android apps, and I have everything I need currently. _"But, what about photography?"_ you ask. Well, I have found that I needed to rework my photo work flow, but I have found something that works for me. All the photos that I have uploaded this year were posted under ChromeOS and so far, it is working for me.
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A while back, I was transferred to a new team at my $JOB. This team is more aligned with what I normally do, so this is a good thing. Plus, I know all other folks on the team, and I like them, including the manager. The only drawback is that I am the only US-based person on the team, as the rest of them are in London. Upside, I got to go over for some training and planning.
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Enter the Gemini. Why not use my phone to read email and such? The main reason is while I am pretty decent at using the on-screen keyboard, I find it lacking for long typing sessions. That is where the Gemini is different. It has a physical keyboard, and even though it is smaller than any laptop I have used before, I still find I can use it pretty well and type reasonably fast on it. And the battery is pretty decent.
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<a href="https://www.duckland.org/2018/09/yet-another-trip-to-the-uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">My last trip</a> I ended up using the Gemini more than the PixelBook. Things like Skype, uploading and editing photos, email, etc. It worked pretty well. I am thinking about the next trip, not bringing a laptop and just use the Gemini. The display is nice, and when I am in the hotel room, I can hook it up to the TV over a HDMI cable.
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As is our habit, we often go to TRF. This weekend, we finally made it. However, the weather was less than perfect. Around 50F and raining off and on. I still had a good time, and the family mainly enjoyed themselves as well, but I kept the small camera I brought with me away for most of the day.
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As 2018 draws to a close, it is the way of things to look at the year past, and then look ahead.
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## A look behind…
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My main tech experience this year has been using the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="PixelBook (opens in a new tab)" href="/category/os/chromeos/pixelbook/" target="_blank">PixelBook</a> as my main computing device. This for the most part has worked out well. Everything I needed to do I figured out a way to do it under ChromeOS, and most of the time it was as easy to do as under Linux.
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The only place that I feel it was a struggle was with photo editing. If I chose to only use GApps, then it works well, but since I have 10+ years of photos not in the Google ecosystem, I need something else, and this is where ChromeOS currently hits a limit. While using <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="AfterShot Pro (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.aftershotpro.com/" target="_blank">AfterShot Pro</a>, I notice that the Linux container struggles with both memory and disk IO. Given what I am planning on in the coming year, this may become bigger issue for me.
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In playing around, I installed <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Ubuntu 18.10 (opens in a new tab)" href="https://ubuntu.com" target="_blank">Ubuntu 18.10</a> on my <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="HP R810 (opens in a new tab)" href="/category/os/hardware/r810/" target="_blank">HP R810</a> to have a look, and surprisingly, I liked what I saw. If I do move back to Linux over ChromeOS, then 18.10 is the answer. I doubt the R810 will be the platform, as while I love the size, the battery is only good for 3-4 hours at best, and the PixelBook will run 8-10 hours, and is about 1/2 as think as well.
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Looking at news from the $JOB, due to a co-worker moving to a different group, I find myself back in a managers role again. This is in addition to my normal work. My new team is US based operations folks (I work in Engineering), who thankfully all sit near me. Their day-to-day will be managed by someone currently on the team who has a deep understanding of the operational concerns. I should be more of the HR manager approving time off, helping with reviews, and that sort of fun.
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## ..and a look ahead
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I have come up with a few areas I am planning to work on in the coming year.
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Professionally, I want to take the team management and use it as a catalyst to learn what being a manager in the 21st century looks like. I plan to use both resources from the $JOB and from reading that I am planning to do. Traditionally, I only read fiction books in my down time, so this will be a big shift for me there.
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||||
I also have looked into what it would take for me to get a promotion at work, and there are many areas in pure tech, tech management, and people management for me to explore and learn.
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Personally, I have two areas I want to focus on: Photography and my health.
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In photography, I want to get back into the habit of taking pictures every day, and looking at the world in terms of light and textures. To do this, I am planning on doing what is called a ‘Project 52’ which is posting one photo per week for 52 weeks. I am planning on working 12 themes, one per month, to help me focus on what I am shooting.
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For health, I want to train to run a 5K by Thanksgiving. This will help me in many areas, and seems to be a very doable goal. First step is to get up and get moving!
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## Keeping it (me) real
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I will try to post check-ins on how I am doing on the various projects and goals. The $JOB ones will have to be vague, but the personal ones I should be able to give more details.
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I also have plans to be more active here, and try to post at least monthly with something real to share.
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Part four of my TRF Photos series. This time the photos which did not fall into any of the other categories.
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Fall Colors I
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Holiday Duck!
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|
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This is the first of a few posts on the photos from the second weekend we went to TRF.
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This time around, I brought my main camera and took more photos. Lots more.
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This is a few of the people pictures that I think turned out well. There were some others I took, but I was not happy with the results. Photographing people is not something I normally do, so it is an area I do need to explore and work on.
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Hawker Looking
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All Hail Cthulhu!
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Part two of my TRF Photos series. Today, Water Lilies from the Water Lilly Garden.
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