Christopher Barnatt
@ChrisBarnatt
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YouTuber & freelance academic. I post a video on the ExplainingComputers YouTube channel every Sunday: https://t.co/RFnmI9iIrD
Nottingham, UK
Joined June 2009
Taking a look at Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7:
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Thank you for the shout out Nvidia. Next stop, Blackwell in space.
Congratulations to @Starcloud_Inc1 on a successful launch. 🚀 🛰️ Running inference in space, where the data is collected, allows insights to be delivered nearly instantaneously ⚡ Reduced response time delivers immense benefits for applications in wildfire detection and
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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and COSMIC Epoch 1 will be release December 11th, 2025. Future Pop!_OS releases, starting with Pop!_OS 26.04 LTS, will now align with the Ubuntu LTS release timing (approximately two weeks after the Ubuntu release date).
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Doing all of my computing on a #RaspberryPi 500+ for 7 days -- including editing this video!
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Taking a look at new latest Zorin OS 18 Linux distro from @ZorinOS --
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Did you know that every AI video created with Sora 2 costs OpenAI approximately $5 USD in compute + energy? The amount of money OpenAI is setting on fire right now is insane! They must really need the training data from our prompts & human likenesses really bad! 🤯 #Sora
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Today, Oct 14th 2025, Windows 10 reached end of support (well, sort of, due to ESUs -- but this is a key curtain call). But as it departed, Zorin OS 18 arrived from @ZorinOS . . . as I'll review on the ExplainingComputers YouTube channel on Sunday. :)
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My journey to 5G wireless broadband (following 29 days of no service from @bt_uk ):
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Government ID photos of around 70,000 Discord users worldwide have been stolen after hackers breached the security of an age verification company. If these tech companies can't keep our data safe, what hope does Whitehall have of keeping digital IDs safe? https://t.co/h1Dk3dfYhQ
theguardian.com
Names, email addresses and other contact details of users from around the world could also have been taken
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Today we've had a bizarre, dismissive & arrogant government response to the 2.7 million people who've so far signed the petition against UK digital ID: https://t.co/9gPX67WdCB I find it astounding that @BBCNews do not even consider this worth reporting . . .
petition.parliament.uk
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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Looking back to my days of producing cel animation:
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Good to see that the petition against digital ID in the UK now has over 900K signatures: https://t.co/AYiXLm7qqo I'm struggling to understand how it can be both compulsory, and yet something we do not have to carry and use . . . #DigitalID
petition.parliament.uk
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
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Taking a look at the new Raspberry Pi 500+ -- a new all-in-one Pi with an SSD and an illuminated, mechanical keyboard: https://t.co/uemjcLgrC7
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Taking a look at the XpressReal T3 from @FydeOSHQ -- a very interesting new single board computer:
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