It was around 1991 in the university computer lab. Just a green screen dumb terminal for email and newsgroups. Played too much Nettrek after hours on the Spark workstations later on.
It was around 1991 in the university computer lab. Just a green screen dumb terminal for email and newsgroups. Played too much Nettrek after hours on the Spark workstations later on.
This ought to happen everywhere. Either I’m the admin on my machine or I’m not. If it’s not, I’m not sure how much longer I’ll tolerate a Windows machine.
Winter, you say. It felt like spring yesterday.
Given trade, it doesn’t seem to be in their best interest to cripple the US.
Nope. Not even once, and that’s just fine.
My Internet has Pihole and uBlock. I don’t know what these ad things are.
They meant to say fecal recognition. They’re struggling to determine the difference between a Whopper and a whopping dookie. No luck so far, and I doubt an app is going to help.
I’m not so sure about that. It took me forever yesterday to get my international keyboard setup to work on Ubuntu the way I wanted it to. I’m saying that as someone who’s been using Unix/Linux in a school, IT and home setting for 30 years. It was unforgivably difficult.
There’s nothing objective about that opinion at all. I think Mariah Carey’s song is cynical corporate kitsch written for one reason and one reason only: to make money. That’s why I hate it.
I can tolerate some of the secular big band/swing songs, and there have been a few decent ones since then. Fiona Apple does a brilliant cover of Frosty the Snowman. Vince Guaraldi’s work for the Charlie Brown Christmas show is still wonderful.
According to the people who know me intimately, the AI is gonna nope out even harder than I am.
Ditto on the Arduino. I built a pickup winder for electric guitar, and it’s more than made up for its price in entertainment alone.
Both of the tools I tried from there failed hard and fast. The first was a rotary tool. I ended up keeping the plastic and using a motor from a printer instead until I bought my Foredom.
The second was a vibratory tumbler. After running it for a few hours, I walked into my garage to find it filled with smoke and the acrid smell of burning electrical equipment.
I took it back to the store for a refund and the manager threatened me, saying that he wouldn’t let me make any more returns after bringing back an obviously defective piece of garbage.
Glad you had a better experience, but that place is definitely not for me.
Hmm. Kinda rhymes with “garbage crate”. Horrible store. I’m never going back.
I’ve used, administered and coded on Linux for a very long time. So yup
Obscure keyboard shortcuts.
I was just [insert action here].
I’ve been thinking exactly the same thing. Facebook, Twitter and Reddit. Each of them a complete shit show of disinformation and censorship. Blogs and personal web sites are pretty much dead. It’s getting harder and harder for anyone without buckets of money to stand on equal ground.
After breakfast and coffee things tend to get better.
A couple weeks ago, I had a ten year old account on Reddit that just wouldn’t let me back in. I tried changing the password, but the link and the form it gave me didn’t work. I tried several times, no luck.
I contacted support several times. They were worse than useless. If that’s how they treat their most loyal content creators now, why on earth would I ever go back?
Oh well. It was fun until it wasn’t.
Same here, although it did eventually lead to years of employment as a web dev.