gnuplusmatt

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can't remember if it was 99 or 2000, I got a copy of Red Hat 6.0 (Hedwig) on the cover of a magazine and installed it. I remember the Lilo boot manager giving me trouble and then it was multiple days of dialing up the internet on my dad's PC to find info on getting X11 to run correctly on my graphics hardware. Once I got that going it was my win modem that defeated me in the end, couldn't get any internet. So was back to Windows for another couple of years.

In 2003 my university course had a Linux Administration subject and the lecturer had built a live cd of Fedora Core 2 (this was in the days before live cds were a regular thing) it was a revelation and it worked with much less setup. We had a Linux lab, but the livecd allowed us to work on Linux on our personal machines. I'd dabble with Linux and explore distros for a few years, depending on hard ware compatibility, I'd always have at least one Linux box. I remember attempting to get HalfLife 2 running in Cedega (a commercial fork of wine), even played the original left4dead with friends, this was in 2008. I was there when pulse audio launched before it was ready and when KDE moved to version 4 and was an absolute resource hog. I bought the unreal and tournament games on disc to play on Linux. Was Disappointed when the UT3 release got delayed and then eventually canceled. I remember going to the id software ftps to get the Linux binaries for all the quakes. There were a few other Linux adventures in there, like a misguided attempt at compiling Gentoo in 2007 and working out mythtv server as a media pc and pvr.

Was excited when I got beta access to steam in 2012, and I haven't had Windows on my personal computers since then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is true, because each layered package is reinstalled every time a new compose is pulled. If you layer 100 packages, 100 packages get re-installed. Which massively slows the update process

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I copy the URL and paste it into the readme.md in the root of my nextcloud account. I'll find it again in 6 months or more and finally read it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's so bizare, since I swapped out to unleaded we fuck constantly and not worry about contraception. nothing makes you feel like more of a man than fucking raw dog every chance you get.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Aurora store works with google content today

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

They didn't murder centos, they changed its development so that its upstream of RHEL, one point release ahead. For 95% of deployments it makes no difference, for the last few percent RHEL proper is available for free for non-commercial purposes and if it's commercial then buy a license or use another clone.

Most people have bought into FUD, and spout off the same BS points, and were never centos users to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've been running Fedora OStree variants for over two years. I version upgraded and rebased between entirely different spins, rawhide and over to ublue variants then back to fedora mainline. All off the original install, keeping my userspace intact. Never once has it self destructed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

is there a plugin to pull data on the video into a library? Or are you just playing media files?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I was made unemployed for about 5 months in 2013,relying on just my wife's income and we burned through our savings. I was depressed and it was truly one of the worst years of my life.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The number of optical discs that have been gouged sliding around in those shitty wallets back in the day. I wouldn't trust a fragile medium in one

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

I'd say we're ready for the next generation of home media - I don't want optical anymore. Give me some sort of SD Card, that I can store in a storage wallet that doesn't take up half my house and can't get scratched. I'm sure they're going to want some sort of new DRM scheme, so change up the media format at the same time! SD Card, Isolinear data rod etc

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

isn't this solving a problem that doesn't really exist? I'd have thought most trans people on dating apps would be fairly up front about it... you know for safety or even just expectations management? I can't speak from experience, my dating life predates the rise of dating apps

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