ROCm 7 fix for rocm-core on linux mint

So ROCm 7 just dropped and I encountered a bug on my linux mint machines. The short version is that the postinst script has == rather than =~ comparisons, which fail for linux mint, but

Stateful vs Stateless systems

Long ago, back when we banged desktop/deskside computers together for HPC clusters, I was a firm believer in stateful systems. That is, systems with an OS installed directly on the unit, where

My first #SciFi publication

See https://a.co/d/dAF9dxD , in the kindle store. After getting a third rejection of this story, despite very positive reviews from my local writers group, and a writers conference I attended

Kindertransport and echos from terrible past times

I just returned from Hamburg Germany after attending ISC24. Hamburg is a beautiful city. The people are wonderful, and they even tolerated my rather terrible Deutsch Sprache. When I visited Vienna about 17