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1 day agoKids these days
Back in the day you could fit a pretty functional linux on a 1.44mb disk
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Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
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Or is it half a Dutch flag? Hmmn?
3·2 days agoI run into less and less F these days, thank god. Worst conversion factor ever.
2·4 days agoMore than marginally, unless HDDs have gotten a LOT better in the last five years, hahah.
8·5 days agoI’ve always said my main takeaway from Asimov is that simple rules can generate extremely complex behaviour, and that you can’t generally get a targeted complex behaviour from simple rules.
Yeah, 2TB SSDs are honestly fine for everything except bulk storage.
Is this how i find out he died? Oh please
2·11 days agoWithout my parents trying to punish me, i might not have become a sysadmin.
Learned how to wire up phone lines, and hid a 2400 baud modem in the bookcase.
I might count chopsticks as a ‘free’ item, unless you’re also counting other basic utensils. Also if a set of bowls can be one item, a set of utensils should be.
They’re feral at this point. Probably an established food web.
15·17 days agoThe Canada Eagle*. We have most of them now, we should rename them.
3 kilobytes more or less.
And if you want an image, well, put the image on the stone.
Doesn’t have to be a URL. You can encode any data.
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Of course, it’ll erode over time.
We who still reply below messages are still in the fight. We may be losing but the fight continues!
An air compressor and some cheesewire might be simpler and lighter…
13·20 days agoIt’s not for the hand.
There are versions of old age that i would prefer death to.