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RL_Dane

@RL_Dane@fosstodon.org

Involuntary time-traveler, recipient of offensive grace. Quasi-technical Linux and FOSS enthusiast. Armchair privacy advocate

Profile pic courtesy NeoFetch.

Header image courtesy of NASA: https://unsplash.com/photos/Q1p7bh3SHj8

My #interests:

#StarWars
#StarTrek
#Linux
#UNIX
#BSD
#OpenBSD
#Bible
#Christianity
#Jesus
#AmateurRadio
#Bash
#Dallas
#Writing
#Poetry
#Space
#KSP
#Tea
#FountainPens
#Journaling
#TabletopRPG
#RetroComputing
#ClassicMac
#uxn

#fedi22

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Wyndix, to random Spanish

I just has a dream where I watched an amazing film, and I'm so sad it doesn't exist in real life now

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@Wyndix

Dreams like that are wonderful!

Years ago I had a dream of a beautiful song. It had melody and accompaniment, backing vocals and the whole nine yards.

It filled my heart with joy and I scoured the internet looking for it -- it only existed in my dream.

The only part of it I could remember is, "There's a promise in the morning sky."

array, to linux
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In other news, I've been using full time. I can say I'm as comfortable with out-of-the-box Gnome as with my built-from-source, very-personalized . I get people are sometimes pretty opinionated and even argumentative about their digital environments, but I guess I've learnt to Stop Worrying and Love The Get Things Done. XD

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@array

HERESY! 😂

Nah. Enjoy what works for you 👍🏼

gordoooo_z, to random
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Thinking it might be time for a career change. Might just walk the Earth... You know, walk the Earth... Like Kane in Kung-Fu.

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@gordoooo_z

What's your career now?

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@gordoooo_z

What would you like to do?

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@gordoooo_z

Mmm, that is a problem, for it is through desire that life moves forward.

But sometimes what we need and desire most is rest.

Then again, often what we need the most is change of perspective.
Probably 90% of the time.

steffo, (edited ) to random

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    @steffo

    I prefer to alternate staying up crazy late and waking up very early because... Masochism?

    I just honestly love both late nights and early mornings, ergo my circadian rhythm has PTSD from me 😆

    RL_Dane, to random
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    This last decade has given me whiplash (from speed, as it were).

    Can I just go back to 2008? Pretty please?

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    @sirber

    2008 with relative sanity, even if that included PHP.

    Besides, perl was still pretty hot stuff in 2008. :D

    RL_Dane, to random
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    Me in 1990: Do you guys still use ascii in the future?
    Me in 2023: Well, kindasorta. We use a mostly ascii-compatible character encoding called UTF-8 which includes every symbol from just about every language known to man, so there's no need to change sw/hw to view something in Japanese, for example.
    1990: Wow, that's amazing!
    2023: It also provides characters called "eh-mo-jee" which consists of smiley faces and symbols which is slowly replacing intelligent written speech.
    1990: WHAT.

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    @sirber

    Eh, not so much. GIFs, yes, and sometimes GIFs with multiple images, but I didn't see that feature used for animation until the mid-90s. There just wasn't enough computational power to decompress that much GIF data on the fly.

    For animation in 1990, we had DL, GL, and FLI (all DOS).

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    @sirber

    Yeah, remember FLI? That was the hotness until either QuickTime or MPEG-1, depending on what OS you were on.

    Man, I still remember watching chunky low-res MPEG-1 videos, ha!

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    @sirber

    Probably videos in early CDROM games. FLI had a pretty low CPU overhead compared to something like MPEG -- more like very early QuickTime.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLIC_(file_format)

    RL_Dane, to random
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    Time, the final frontier.
    These are the perilous voyages of the U.S.S. Scheduling, with its clueless captain R.L. Dane and an engine that runs on paper scraps and frustration. ^___^

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    @sirber

    I AM NOT A SADOMASOCHIST, SIR!! 😆

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    @sirber

    BE GONE!!! lol

    ActionRetro, to random
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    Look at me living in the future over here

    An iMac G3 running Mac OS 9 detecting a Symbian EPOC machine over infrared

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    @ActionRetro

    I miss IRDA.

    NanoRaptor, to random
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    @NanoRaptor

    I'd be more interested in Apple if they made stuff like this.
    Or even if they brought back the multicolored logo.

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    @fbievan @NanoRaptor

    Apple actually started MacOS X with a fair bit of "Openwashing." Probably because they used a lot of code (although, just in case anyone's asking, I don't think using MacOS counts as using BSD or even UNIX, given how twisted it is, but I guess noone's asking, right? lol)

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    @defrisselle

    Curious, certified in what way?

    I mean, it's a certified Unix™️, but that doesn't mean much.

    @fbievan @NanoRaptor

    RL_Dane, to random
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    It's May 5 and already summer in

    Man, that was fast.

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    @thestrangelet

    Are you in TX? :)

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    @thestrangelet

    Ah nice. My old hometown, though I don't much recognize it anymore ;)

    I still have some friends down there. I'm in DFW.

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    @thestrangelet

    That's funny. I'm not too far from there, just a few miles eastward.

    I grew up around the UT Austin housing area early on, then later in the Parmer Ln./Mopac area.

    I'd have no hope of finding my way around now, lol.

    electrona, to random
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    @fisherbecker Hey Simon! I absolutely loved you as Dorium in Doctor Who!

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    @electrona

    "Doctor Who?
    Doctor WHO?
    DOC-TOR WHO??"

    Man, good times. I miss the Tennant-Smith era. (Not hating on Capaldi or Whittaker, it's just that that era was special to me)

    TT_392, to random
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    Tomorrow, 18 hour plane journey, after that, japan, yay

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    @TT_392

    WOW!

    fedops, to random
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    Lovely evening at the pier in Ballyvaughan, Co. Clare tonight.

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    @fedops

    Holy mackerel, I read that as HOURS of PTO at first.

    You'd need nothing less than 30 years of tenure in a U.S. corp for 30 days of PTO, if at all.

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