shadesdk

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[–] shadesdk 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I remember installing a version 0.9x from a set of infomagic cdroms in the mid 90s. Ended up going back to running Slackware for a long time to come though. Hard to understand I’ve been playing with and earning a living with Linux for just about 30 years now. Debian has played a big part in that.

[–] shadesdk 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While that would be great, in reality because of YouTube’s recommendations, the ones most likely to watch this crap are the ones already drinking the kool-aid and thus upvoting.

[–] shadesdk 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

These instances were the first that made me search for a block instance option in Memmy. Still I’m not entirely happy seeing all this defederation happening.

[–] shadesdk 45 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I can’t be the only one who like the picture, but have absolutely no idea what the headline means.

[–] shadesdk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s definitely Garmin for you. I’ve had forerunners and edge computers since fr205. Good hardware but shitty software. Still, I’ve tried others like wahoo and always ended up with Garmin again. Currently on an edge 1040 and a fr965, 15 years later and I still get lost in the menus.

[–] shadesdk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Older ones for sure. Won’t even have a drain plug.

[–] shadesdk 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A lot of bad can be said about Harleys but I love that my 48 just has a little rubber hose with a plug in it to drain the oil.

[–] shadesdk 3 points 1 year ago

That’s great, but there is still a shit ton of it in there. Check this channel where an amazing team rescues seals entangled in all our waste for a look into what we’re doing to the oceans: https://youtube.com/@OceanConservationNamibia

[–] shadesdk 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Those corridors bring me back to Wolfenstein 3D.

[–] shadesdk -5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m not denying there is a heat wave in southern Europe, but where I am in Spain, it was actually hotter last year. I’m enjoy this summer and am usually able to sleep without AC and at the same time I have family outside of the country calling and asking if I am OK because of what they see on the news. There is definitely parts that have it worse than others.

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

That’s more or less how I got my first job back in the 90s. A buddy and I started hanging out at the local computer store. We discovered Linux because we wanted to run an Amiga emulator and a little later when the store wanted to start as an ISP, this was the time of local/long distance calls, so local ISPs were a thing, we got hired and build it all from scratch. Radius server, smtpd etc. everything based on the standard *nix tools, except the customer db/app which we wrote ourselves. We both dropped out of computer science for this and now almost 30 years later neither of us finished school, but both still work in tech. These were the wild days of the young Internet and I doubt it’s something that would really work these days.

[–] shadesdk 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I compiled my first Linux kernel back in the mid 90s, mostly on 386 and Dec Alpha hardware, interesting enough both were not that much slower than what you mentioned, I think the alpha (a measly 21066) took about 40 minutes. If you had asked me back then, I’d probably have imagined a minute or two, 30 years later. Guess it says something about how much larger the Linux kernel has become.

 

I deliberately didn’t tell anyone I was using minox to grow my beard. I wanted to see when someone would notice and now 2 months in, the only one who noticed was my wife, and unfortunately not the beard gains but the minoxidil turning her white pillow cases yellowish/brownish. I can see some tiny belly’s hairs myself, but I’m curious how long it will take to be obvious for others.

 

I put a packtalk edge in my wife’s open face helmet so she can listen to music while she’s on the back of the bike. Although you could argue the silence is nice for me, I’d still like her to be able to talk to me also, but she insists the boom mic ruins the aesthetics of the helmet and I get her point. Anyone have experience with just using the button mic or a different microphone in an open face helmet? It’s a Shoei J.O to be specific.

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