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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's no way Meta will not appeal. I'm sure it'll end up in our supreme courts eventually.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plus scaremongering articles like this are treating DU like U235.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I wish I could forget all about Day of the Tentacle, so I could play it all over again and rediscover everything.

That whole ordeal with Red Dead Uncle Fred is hilarious, especially after IRS arrests him and restrains him with literal red tape.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is there an IPSec tunel in the mix? Often, IPSec Phase2 goes down when idle, while Phase1 stays up. Upon traffic, Phase2 is brought up again, with a delay.

I usually work around this with a crontab on one of the remote servers that sends a single ping packet every minute to a local server, and pipe any output to /dev/null.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

xorg. I used its predecessor a lot in the past, and I still get PTSD when I see an XFree86 config file.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not very practical, but good for understanding the OS: Everything is a file. Even your filesystem and harddrive is represented by a file (devicenode).

Back in the day, before things such as pulseaudio and equivalents became the norm, there was also such a file (it might still exist, idk) for your soundcard. By shoving the contents of a wav file directly into /dev/dsp, you could hear it as if it was played normally.

Unrelates to the above, in a terminal context it's very handy to learn the concepts of STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and how to manipulate these. I won't go into it here, but whenever you see a bunch of commands strung together with redirects, < > | >>, that's usually for sending the output (STDOUT) of one command somewhere else, such as to the input STDIN to another command.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've always been intrigued by that one. I want to test it out, but finding an image has proven difficult.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Cool. I used to live in Brno (although I am Norwegian). I had a coworker from Praha who used to curse commies on a daily basis when we worked offshore together. "What kind of asshole party man designed this commie piece of shit??!". He grew up in the 80's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[Insert trolley problem here]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

May I ask which country?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I miss /usr/ports. I could spend days just exploring its contents.

I miss an /etc structure that wasn't a complete mess.

I miss UFS and its soft updates.

I miss the stability of fBSD 3 and 4.

I miss the ease of which you tweaked, compiled, and installed a new kernel.

And just because of the hilarious legacy that was obsolete 20 years beforw I started with it, I miss the concept of font-servers.

The main reason for my migration was the bigger userbase of linux where it was easier to find people who has resolved whatever issue I was having, plus nvidia drivers. Plus I've only needed to use fBSD once professionally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Stupid question, but what makes it particularly suitable for adult video as opposed to, say, regular video by a camera/recording enthusiasts (who may or may not enjoy videos of spinning plastic bags)

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