K. Ryabitsev 🍁
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@Ertain I think you are referring to "degaussing," which is actually a valid thing to do to a CRT monitor if it starts getting weird rainbowy streaks on it.
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I had to google what the heck is a "doily"
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No, I'm an old lady from Eastern Europe
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My first computer monitor had:
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A clip-on polarized glass screen to catch "bad electrons"
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A cactus on top of it to soak up "bad radiation"
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A doily
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All of the above
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Sorry, I didn't grow up in Eastern Europe, so I have no idea what this poll is about
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@monsieuricon It made the CPU drop every other bit, so it was able to go through twice the bits in same time
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@kroitus I recognize a fellow 90's post-soviet block kid when I see one. :)
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It dumped more fuel into the math co-processor, which made flames shoot out of the exhaust vents.
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What did the "Turbo" button do on the 90's PCs?
Wrong answers only.
Wrong answers only.
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I would like to publicly curse the person who recommended that I try the Sim Settlements 2 mod for FO4.
You suck. I should have never met you.
Also, I do *not* have a problem and can stop any time I want to. Which is usually way too late at night.
You suck. I should have never met you.
Also, I do *not* have a problem and can stop any time I want to. Which is usually way too late at night.
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@ljs True. But, equally true is that in space, nobody can hear someone play bagpipes, so I find this balances things out.
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I like that post-space-travel quote by Shatner as much as the next guy, but I find it goes too far when contrasting the "deadly space" with "life-nurturing Earth."
Earth is where things are constantly trying to kill you. Space is where things kill you without even trying.
Earth is where things are constantly trying to kill you. Space is where things kill you without even trying.
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@wyatt8740 see, my experience predates CDROM drives. :) Back when I used DOS last, even 3.5 inch floppies were a rarity. I remember loading up Star Control 2 and being amazed that it actually played music through the PC speaker (my mom's Amstrad 286-compatible didn't have a real sound card).
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@wyatt8740 I don't recall needing more than 2, tbh. One for my mom's work, one for playing games. :)
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@wyatt8740 you just had a CONFIG.SY1, .SY2, etc, and copied the one you wanted over. Sometimes also a matching AUTOEXEC.BA1.
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@williampietri the way to brute-force your way out of this confusion is to always end directory paths with '/.':
rsync -avP source/. target/.
rsync -avP source/. target/.
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@kkarhan I'm happy that it works in your head, but in my head linkname is not destination, it's a shortcut *to* the destination.
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I appreciate people saying that it's like `cp` or `mount`, but in my head the natural order of thinking about this operation is reversed: it's "create a link to this file" not "make this file also known as this link." Hence two competing "gut feelings" about which should come first. It also doesn't help that commands like "alias" work the opposite direction ("make a new command that is actually this another command").
Anyway, it was really just an observation that I confuse this all the time, and I'm not the greenest Linux admin around. :)
Anyway, it was really just an observation that I confuse this all the time, and I'm not the greenest Linux admin around. :)
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I've been admining Linux systems for 25 years, and I still have to check which one it is every time.
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Ukrainska Pravda
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Norway's Foreign Minister: "We should all be honest and say: Nobody does enough for Ukraine"
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/interview/2024/04/5/7183136/
#news #ukraine
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