adavis

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[–] adavis 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Blast from the past! I had this on cdrom. As a child I remember our old computer that had Sim City 2000 on didn't have a cdrom drive. Our new computer did. I fondly remember copying my favourite cities from the old to new via floppy disk. Those were the days!

[–] adavis 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That's super interesting. Do you have a source you could link for this data?

[–] adavis 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

You can also use systemctl status $pid to find out what service a process is from.

[–] adavis 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah for my case it was easier in the initrd otherwise I'd be trying to roll back the active / partition.

Re run levels, they were a sysvinit thing so I wasn't sure sure about systemd, this suggests that would work though https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SysVinit_to_Systemd_Cheatsheet

And if you have to bail out even earlier, run level 1 will give you the rescue.target

[–] adavis 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Pass something stupid via your bootloader so it aborts boot and dumps you in an initrd busybox shell. No usb required.

This was my poor man's boot environments when I was using zfs on root. I had a pacman hook to snapshot before package transactions, then if it became unbootable I'd interrupt the following boot attempt, edit my grub command line with something wrong so I'd get dumped in the busybox shell, import my zfs pool and roll back before finally rebooting again.

[–] adavis 4 points 11 months ago

Similar here, bought car in 2011 and will drive it till it dies. I'm happy with an 3.5mm port.

But for those that do feel like Bluetooth etc are must have features. You can buy head units, with touch screens and Android auto and Apple CarPlay for only a few hundred dollars, and often support connecting rear cameras etc.

[–] adavis 1 points 11 months ago

I think if anything I'd view it from the other direction. We had machines with hardware support for memory protection and multitasking and we got DOS. DOS was the abberation.

Microsoft was a Xenix vendor before it sold DOS.

[–] adavis 11 points 1 year ago

I used to turn to custom roms to extend the life of my phone. My first smartphone didn't get an official update after I purchased it for example. The custom roms often made the phone snappier too.

These days I'm on a mid range Samsung phone released almost 4 years ago and it's still getting updates.

[–] adavis 9 points 1 year ago

The Android app has done this for years too.

After connecting my (non Microsoft) email account to the Outlook Android app I noticed the login location was geolocated in the USA... I live in Australia.

Unfortunately there's no way to turn it off.

[–] adavis 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not the previous poster. I taught an introduction to programming unit for a few semesters. The unit was almost entirely portfolio based ie all done in class or at home.

The unit had two litmus tests under exam like conditions, on paper in class. We're talking the week 10 test had complexity equal to week 5 or 6. Approximately 15-20% of the cohort failed this test, which if they were up to date with class work effectively proved they cheated. They'd be submitting course work of little 2d games then on paper be unable to "with a loop, print all the odd numbers from 1 to 20"

[–] adavis 1 points 1 year ago

How do you find the thermals in the DS380?

I've got one and when I did some IO burn in testing on some new drives, the drives in the top and bottom slot became so hot I voided their warranty.

[–] adavis 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Does anyone have suggestions for an app with higher densiting on mobile? I was a Reddit Is Fun user and could see 7-8 posts on my feed at a time. Lemmy's view shows less about 4

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