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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You can have mouse support with nano. Alt-m toggles it on or off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Depends on what wave of skinheads you're talking about. Skinheads emerged in the UK in working class urban communities in the late sixties. They were influenced by the early sixties mod scene, the Jamaican rude boy scene, a strong identity towards their working class roots that alienated them against the government and the then middle class hippie lifestyle. As they were in working class areas in urban Britain, they were also rubbing shoulders with working class black people who brought with them their West Indian music and dress style. Ska Music and reggae were big influences on the tastes of first wave skinheads. In this way, it's ironic that the second wave of skinheads in the late seventies and beyond got involved with fascist politics, considering its working class multicultural roots.

I'm not sure you can say that skinheads were an offshoot of punk, at least not the first wave of skinheads, as skinheads predate punk by nearly a decade. As I mentioned above, the first skinheads were interested in ska, reggae and other music from West Indian roots. They were more an offshoot of the early sixties mods, with added interest in black working class styles and music.

The second wave came around when punk was in the ascendency in the late seventies, and that is where Oi music is based on. But Oi and the second wave's interest in fascism is certainly not what skinheads were originally about. The birth of Oi was convenient in a way for the likes of the fascist National Front in the UK, who were heavily recruiting amongst the skinheads in the late seventies, as it pulled skinheads away from that "problematic" (for the fascists) black music. I mean, there'd be a conflict of interest if you're heavily influenced by black music and styles and yet want to "send the foreigners back where they came from". In many ways Oi was a betrayal of the skinhead scene.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Mandrake 8.2

I have fond memories of it, as it weaned me off Windows.

Edit: Actually, Knoppix was my first foray into Linux, but Mandrake was the first Linux distro that I actually installed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Wish that was around when I moved from lemmy.world to lemm.ee some time ago. It would have saved me a bit of time. Nice that it's there for the future, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Watch out, there's a Humphrey about!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Well, at least the dog won't be going hungry.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Would the foetuses of any of the damned by considered guilty? I presume there must have been a few pregnant women murdered by that malevolent deity in that fairy story of your ilk (if you're not on the wind-up, might I add).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago

Seinfeld has this covered:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Not that you should have to, but wouldn't running Windows on a virtual machine thwart Peacock's restrictions? Again, not that I think that that should justify Peacock's restrictive stance.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Thought I was going to be the only one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

So does Beta, and it also has full extension support like Nightly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What I also find interesting is that the nearest extant animals to birds are crocodilians. Both belong to the archosaur clade, even if there's around a 240 million years gap between them.

As you say, birds can be classified as belonging to reptiles under the cladistic route, but they're quite radically different to the reptiles that live today, so are seen as not really reptilian. It's not surprising, seeing that the link between crocodiles, true reptiles in all senses, and birds were the dinosaurs, who disappeared 65 million years ago. A whole lot of evolutionary change in that time.

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