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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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RL_Dane, to linux
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If I leave for , I'll definitely miss seeing THIS. :/

(as opposed to:
~ $ mount |grep -vie ext[0-9] -e btrfs |wc -l
22
🫠)

RL_Dane,
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@skyglobe

Oh it's not ZFS itself that I'll miss (although I do like it), it's not having tons of mountpoint spam 😂

RL_Dane,
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@teamtuck

Linux has a real mountpoint spam problem. I don't doubt that all of the various mountpoints have a good purpose, but it's annoying to have to filter through the list of mountpoints for actual disk volumes.

It's a silly criticism, but it still annoys me.

It's also the #1 reason I steer clear from snap -- you get a mountpoint per installed snap, whether it's being used or not.

That is STUPID.

RL_Dane,
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@teamtuck

Not anymore, because there's various devices: USB (sda), nvme, and others.

I do have a 'showvols' function that filters out all the tmpfs, sysfs, kitchensinkfs spam, but I have to constantly update it to filter out the latest mountpoint spam added to Linux nearly every year 🙄

RL_Dane,
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@royal

Yeah. I can deal with /proc /dev, /sys, and /tmp, but it's getting really out of hand lately.
@teamtuck

RL_Dane, to random
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Has anyone had any luck getting the digitizer on their "tablet" (mine's an X200t) working under ?

I followed the steps in the wiki, but no dice.

RL_Dane,
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@vue

Thanks, I'll give it a try!

indie1337, to random

Today I'll be hosting the first staff Bible study. I. AM. NERVOUS.

This is NOT my strength. My strength is staying behind the scenes and making everything work for SOMEONE ELSE.

RL_Dane,
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@indie1337

It'll be awesome. :D

You just bring the five loaves and two fish. Let Him worry about the rest.

npr, to random

30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary

RL_Dane,
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@npr

Kinda wishing he'd take it back, now.

The www has seriously jumped the shark

@hill0karen

edgren, to random
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Trying out KeePassXC on Linux for the first time since many years ago. And I must say, I really like it so far!

RL_Dane,
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@joel

Been using it as my main pw mgr since 2019.

@edgren

SolusSpider, to random
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Today I am ancient +1

RL_Dane,
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@SolusSpider

Happy Birthday!!!

NanoRaptor, to random
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    RL_Dane,
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    @NanoRaptor

    WANT!!!!! 🤩

    saramg, to random
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    Meanwhile, my 2012 MacPro has abended twice this week.

    If I don't get my critical data off it before it completely dies. Please do laugh at me about it.

    RL_Dane,
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    @ieatkillerbees @saramg

    lol sorry XD

    I used to work with some z/OS folks, and that's where I'd hear the term. I've been out of IT for just about a decade now. :(:

    RL_Dane,
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    @ieatkillerbees @saramg

    That's another term I haven't heard in a long time, "Tape Operator."
    I think I knew some Tape Operators once, like 20 years ago.
    Man, that's really getting into the recesses of my brain.

    RL_Dane,
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    @ieatkillerbees

    Pretty sure some government offices were using 9-tracks into the mid-naughties if not until this moment 😂

    They need to quietly reintroduce spinning 9-track machines into modern SciFi and not tell anyone what they are 😅

    RL_Dane,
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    @ieatkillerbees

    One of my favorite childhood memories was of the 3270s they put in the Perry-Casteñada Library at UT Austin in the early mid eighties for the library catalog.

    I would play on those things for what seemed like hours even though it was nothing but a catalog.

    The image of those crisp green screens is etched into my memory.

    It's still my favorite mode in cool-retro-terminal 😅

    msprout, to random

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    RL_Dane,
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    @sotolf @benjaminhollon @pixelherodev @msprout

    You really get the sense that the language was designed around "slightly better than Github Copilot" rookie devs. ;)

    RL_Dane,
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    @benjaminhollon

    Oh, do tell.

    I wonder if the hashtag overheard in (Austin, Texas, ATX, Dallas, etc.) has any juicy tidbits

    @codrusofathens @msprout

    RL_Dane, to random
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    Is anyone using the @PINE64 yet?
    Is it ready for early adopters, or is it still dev-only status?
    It's almost a couple years old now, and I'm not seeing much in the way of status updates AFAICT.
    I'm tempted to get a kindle scribe, but dang if I don't want to make Lex Luthor any richer or more powerful. :P

    RL_Dane,
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    @benjaminhollon

    The problem I always have with partially drm-free stores is that the stuff I want is almost never drm-free.

    Much disappoint.

    @0xDEADBEEF @thestrangelet

    mxtiffanyleigh, to random
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    I mistyped "Wuthering Heights" as "Wuthering Heist" and now I desperately need to read that book/see that movie.

    RL_Dane,
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    @mxtiffanyleigh

    This is how great fanfic is born!!

    @dheadshot

    RL_Dane, to random
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    Oh my.
    Writing without the letter "e" is WAY harder than I thought it would be.

    RL_Dane,
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    @dheadshot

    Ee eeee eee eee eeeee eee eee eeee eee eee eeeeee "e?"

    0x5DA, to random
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    why is my voice so awkward -.-

    RL_Dane,
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    @0x5DA

    Because you're 14?

    It'll even out, I promise.

    mcc, to random
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    As an indication of how badly this project has degraded my mental state, I at some point managed to create a file in the project directory named ":wq". Either you understand this post or you don't.

    RL_Dane,
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    @mcc

    I feel this 😅

    orbifx, to random
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    Any stories relevant to choosing between and ?

    What their current state and differences are?

    RL_Dane,
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    @orbifx

    My totally n00b opinion is:

    : a more traditional unix, very focused goals (similar to ), broad architecture support
    : more geared towards the enterprise, more feature-complete (bhyve virtualization, linux executable compatibility, ZFS), a little better hardware compatibility on the one PC (Thinkpad) I tried both of them on.

    To be fair, I spent very little time on NetBSD (only because I couldn't get suspend to work).

    ...

    RL_Dane,
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    @orbifx

    ...

    You should also consider OpenBSD. It actually had the best hardware support, resuming from suspend much faster than FreeBSD on my Thinkpad X200. FreeBSD is the most Linux-like, and the most feature-complete BSD, though.

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