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lopta

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I walk around and plug things in.

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ifixcoinops, to random
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Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

lopta,
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@ifixcoinops I had cause to use a Debian thing today which reminded me that the GUI (think it's GNOME Shell) is unnecessarily bad.

lopta,
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@ifixcoinops @ZippyWonderdust Was that Unity?

amoroso, to VintageOSes
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A young developer who never used Windows 98 back in the day stumbled upon an introductory book on the operating system and posted his impressions on skimming it, which brought him joy. He wrote:

"I was also left with the impression that perhaps I would like more software to come with a physical manual."

https://jamesg.blog/2024/05/19/windows-98-manual

lopta,
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@amoroso Remember when computer manuals included a schematic?

mcc, to random
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Considering having a nice day today

lopta,
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@mcc It's a trap.

compost, to gardening
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I have a question for experts in Roses.

The leaves of my roses were fine before I started to deadhead the dying roses.

After doing this I noticed caterpillars ate the leaves.

My question is: does deadheading the roses attract the caterpillars? If yes what should be done about it?

@gardening
#gardening

lopta,
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@Hellybootwader @compost Does a compost groundhog count? He's just tipped the small heap over. :-)

lopta,
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@Hellybootwader @compost He's out there now. :-)

heyfluxay, to random
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I’m apparently why does my back hurt years old….

lopta,
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@heyfluxay For me it was mowing the lawn on Saturday.

RickiTarr, to random
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So, what's the thing, what's the big thing no one can help you with? How do you cope with it?

lopta,
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@RickiTarr My career you mean? I do what I can find locally, which isn't much, and constantly search for something better. I can find very few jobs for though.

ottaross, to random
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Lazy Saturday morning and I opened the curtains with trepidation to see if the world is a crisp, scorched wasteland from the incoming radiation and energetic particles all night.

Appears everything is alright though.

I will need to get a broom and sweep up all the protons accumulated in my driveway though. Do you put protons in the green bin or the blue box? I forget.

lopta,
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@ottaross Expect Triffids this week, mind.

popey, (edited ) to random
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[POLL]

lopta,
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@popey Just about have my American colleagues convinced that "What the bollocks?!" is the culturally appropriate way for me to answer a Teams call.

llamasoft_ox, to random
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Thanks for all the lappy suggestions, gives me a bit of ammo for some better informed shopping around before deciding what to get. 👍

lopta,
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@llamasoft_ox Cambridge Z88? :-)

ascentale, to random
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@xtaran asks about terms discussed enough BikeNites ago for me to forget somewhat 😅

Q5. I remember that someone said you should not use the word "cycling" but "riding" instead. Or was it the other way round? And I also forgot why. I vaguely remember it was something political. And what about "biking"?

(Generally, how do you prefer to refer to the act of riding a cycle, and someone who rides one? And why? Do some of the terms have confusing or undesirable meanings?)

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

lopta,
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@enobacon @ascentale @xtaran I am in favour of biscuits. #BikeNite

rasterweb, to random
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I’m not even sure how to respond to an old (punk) friend saying “Extremes on both sides are destroying this country.”

lopta,
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@rasterweb The words "horse shit" spring to mind.

amoroso, to Java
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This HotJava lapel pin is swag I got at a mid 1990s Sun Java event in Milan, Italy, where Jim Gosling gave a talk.

One of the lead developers of HotJava, Herb Jellinek, worked on Interlisp at Xerox prior to Sun and now he's on the board of the Medley Interlisp Project. It's a small world.

In case you never heard of HotJava:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava

lopta,
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@amoroso I remember HotJava!

goldstein, to random
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This is the ultimate. My TV is no longer supported by Netflix. They actually expect me to buy a new TV to see their crummy service! Canceling today.

lopta,
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@goldstein "Smart" TVs are unfortunate.

amoroso, to VintageOSes
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It's been 50 years since Gary Kildall demonstrated the first working prototype of CP/M.

https://computerhistory.org/blog/fifty-years-of-the-personal-computer-operating-system

#cpm #retrocomputing

lopta,
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@amoroso That's worthy of celebration. Think the only one I have around at present is an Amstrad CPC-664 emulator. I should try CP/M-86 in qemu. I suppose Atari TOS is, in part, CP/M-68k with a filesystem from CDOS (DOSPLUS?), if that counts. #cpm80

lopta,
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@amoroso What do you run CP/M-80 on?

penguin42, to random
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I'm reading 'Audio' by F.A.Wilson, a Babani paperback in their range of technical books. I was expecting it to be on the electronics of audio (amps etc) but while it does eventually get to that, so far it's got a lot of stuff about the physics in curious detail; things like limits of hearing (phon and sone measurements), construction of microphones and speakers (even down to the types of chemistry in piezo crystals). Fun.
(One oddity is it spells words like 'connection' as 'connexion')

lopta,
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@penguin42 There's an Audio Projects book in that range with things like tone control, mixer and a few audio amps. #LM380

rbreich, to random
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I still hear people arguing that prosecuting a former president sets a “dangerous precedent.”

The truly dangerous precedent would be to establish that presidents are above the law.

lopta,
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@rbreich What's the purpose of a president at that point? Essentially a temporary monarch?

sundogplanets, to random
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Well, the upside to all my students completely bombing the exam is that at least I know they didn't cheat 😬

lopta,
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@sundogplanets "We attained new levels of academic integrity..."

portertech, to random
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I am kinda disappointed that striped mirrors is generally considered the best way to ZFS 😅

lopta,
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@portertech Why is that disappointing?

lopta,
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@portertech This is a guess but are rebuild times higher for RAIDZ than striped mirrors (RAIDZ2?).

CedarTea, to random
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In case anyone's wondering how the housing situation is going in Ontario, we now have provincial elected officials' offices referring people to for-profit homeless encampments.

https://www.innisfiltoday.ca/local-news/mpp-khanjins-staff-referred-people-to-landlords-private-encampment-8560255

#onpoli #housing

lopta,
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@CedarTea Do they have stock in it?

kwf, to random
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So I've got this empty concrete pad on the side of my house.

It used to have a rotted out 12x24' shed on it, but I demolished that last fall and figured I could do something better... 🧵

lopta,
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@kwf I have #Shenvy

lopta,
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@kwf 1000base-SX?

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