SeikoAlpinist

joined 8 months ago
[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I wonder if articles like this, displayed prominently at WaPo and CNN last night, are meant to paint all climate scientists and people who worry about the environment in a bad light, so that any discussion about the climate is tainted.

I can hear the Joe Rogan bros at work parroting, "Micro seconds per century hyuk hyuk" with no further thought. And then later complain about skyrocketing housing insurance, increased food prices from this year's drought, and the record setting heat and AC bills, like they are three separate unrelated events.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Great program. Needs better pay and more funding. A pathway for future federal service and job experience for young adults.

I assume programs like this, that we need to grow and to give more funding, would be eliminated depending on the results of this election.

Also since the article kept giving me popups about registering for $1, I archived it here: https://archive.ph/MM8WG

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I saw this in a magazine and it was so cool looking. A few months later I got Linux on CD and never looked back. That 3D Motif/fvwm look was amazing.

Funny enough, my BIOS did not support booting from CD. I remember in DOS, I had to load MSCDEX from a floppy but I have no recollection on how I actually booted and installed Linux from CD.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago

When it's still green and hard.

Shred it, make papaya salad.This is what I spent a lot of my holidays doing as a kid.

https://www.saengskitchen.com/laorecipes/laopapayasalad

I never knew people let it get soft until I moved to South America. I didn't even know the orange stuff was the same fruit.

Also, mangoes are best when still green and crunchy dipped in spicy powder.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 42 points 2 months ago (8 children)

This should be a national law.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's about as fast as a Haswell desktop, but a fraction of the power usage. It will run any modern OS.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$1/day after discounts and rebates. Right now that is in the Pixel / Nord range.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 months ago

Just the successor to pine. It works with IMAP and SMTP.

I've tried elm and mutt many years ago back in the 90s and pine was the easiest. So I guess I just stayed there and it works over my ssh connections too. To be honest, the number of personal emails that I've written over the past several years can be counted in the dozens so it's not that important to change any more.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago

Me either. My longest install is about to turn 5, but that's an OpenBSD closet laptop server that gets upgraded remotely with every release.

I'm doing okay on this laptop; just hit 1 year on bookworm. But I'm also bandwidth constrained (kilo-bits per second) and can't really distrohop like I used to.

[–] SeikoAlpinist@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Congrats. First of all this really made me feel old ... Skylake seems recent to me and that's the year my kid was born. But secondly, this reminds me of those people who used to post in /r/debian about having like 20 years on the same install and they just kept changing the hardware and if a drive ever got replaced they used dd to clone from one drive to another without reinstalling. So when they would do something like stat /, it would be something like 2002 that the filesystem was created. I think those people/stories are awesome.

I think our expectations are pretty jacked up here because that's how all the operating systems I remember are. Just pull the drive and plug it in another computer. From the DOS days to the BSD world. It's only Windows and macOS that are the outliers here with their "trusted computing" bullshit. They created the problem with tying the install to the hardware, and then they sold the solution of backing up to their cloud for a monthly subscription if your hardware ever just died.

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