[Klug-general] Finally M$ free (nothing to do with W10)

[Paul Lawrence]

New Year Resolution
… achieved.


Just to say finally
I'm - finally - M$ free!! 

Final hurdle was operating an iPod Touch
2nd Gen on Ubuntu. Struggled to find a way of
operating/sync-ing music/podcasts (I'm a BIG fan of BBC Radio 4
podcasts … Fri Night Comedy, TIMC, In Our Time ... also, check out
latest Reith Lecture and A History of Ideas). After much searching
and reading and testing, mainly confirming it is hard as Apple seems to 'obscure' the contents of the Touch, decided
the way to go was to replace the iPod – my main aim was to operate
the device away from iTunes not to have that specific iPod. eBay and much pondering later, my
son-in-law wanted more storage so I swapped the 16G Touch for an 8G Nano 4th Gen. Result? Satisfaction! Rhymthbox sees
and plays the Nano contents - which is more than it ever did on the Touch - but
sync-ing of Podcasts to Nano resulted in many duplicate files. Still
learning gtkpod but it seems to fit the bill. All running on Ubuntu
14.04 on an Thinkpad X200s. 

Now, what shall I do with that (very, very old)
'spare' W7 lappy? And how do I ….. ?


 
Paul
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