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emr, 1 month ago

The nice thing about Samba is that you can find clients for everything.

emr, 6 months ago

So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

emr, 6 months ago

I really like nonfiction, so I’ll recommend a few.

Wonderful Life (Stephen Jay Gould) was what really helped me understand biology. Really interesting read if you want to hear about evolution or paleontology. If you prefer land animals to Cambrian bugs, Rise and Fall of dinosaurs (Steve Brusatte) is also a great read, though it didn’t blow my mind as much as Gould did.

House and Soul of a new Machine (both by Tracy Kidder) are op opposite ends of the technical spectrum but together form a rich portrait of people at work.

Exploding The Phone (Phil Lapsely) is the book you want if you’re at all interested in retro technology. I suspect many people who care enough to use a ln offbeat social network like this one will enjoy it.

Annals of the former world (John McPhee) is a hefty tome that tells the natural history of United States geology, the history of geology (especially how plate tectonics were discovered) and how geology has interacted with the people living on it.

emr, 7 months ago

Now you see why Romulans ended up a recurring villain… very strong start. Compare that to how long they took to bring back the Gorn!

emr, 7 months ago

It’s not specific to Godot 4, but I found this couple of videos really useful for understanding how to build interpolated multiplayer in Godot:

youtube.com/watch?v=w2p0ugw3afs (and the one after on extrapolation.)

emr, 8 months ago

Warzone 2100 was my jam! They hadn’t actually got cutscenes working in the Linux port I was using so I was.very confused about the story.

emr, 8 months ago

x86 apps? Awesome.

emr, 8 months ago

In Excession it felt more like

spoilerThe Culture is a race of intelligent starships that keeps humans as pets.

emr, 9 months ago

What’s crazy to me is that Linux was out way in front of this. Put me in front of windows back in the aughts and say ‘go install a program’ and you had to google it, hope you clicked the right download link, install it, hope you didn’t get a virus. Ubuntu you just opened up synaptic and bam, there was a wealth of programs you could just install with a single click. It was mind-blowing, and way easier than what everyone else offered.

emr, 9 months ago

I still don’t understand why IA picked a fight with publishers with the emergency library.

IA provides a really valuable service and they’re an incredibly juicy target. Going on anti-copyright crusades isn’t their mission.

emr, 9 months ago

It’s what I use for my home server and it’s great. You can even use VLC to stream music and stuff via samba.

emr, 9 months ago

If students hide their phones instead of being distracted by them, isn’t that mission accomplished?

emr, 10 months ago

x86box, Flashpoint Archive, Ruffle, and other tools to sustain the usefulness of the golden age of computing well into the future.

emr, 10 months ago

He's not wrong to call Mastodon users weirdos I suppose, but I wanted to talk to fellow weirdos anyway so it serves my purposes well.

emr, 11 months ago

Have they given a reason? The blog post doesn't list one.

emr, 11 months ago

My setup is a raspberry pi with a large external hard drive running smbd, and it works fine.

emr, 11 months ago

I'm a nostalgic person by nature. My impulse has always been to save rather than delete. I could never do this. In fact, I did the opposite; I made a GDPR request for my data and ran a script to download all of the posts still available in the API. No response on the GDPR request yet but they're allowed time.

emr, 11 months ago

Thanks for making an RSS feed, subscribed!

emr, 11 months ago

I like games that indulge my poor impulse control and reward risk-taking and recklessness. Battle Royale games seem to be the exact opposite of this, which I think is why they rub me the wrong way. I don't want twenty minutes if waiting only to die in ten seconds, I wanna die over and over for twenty minutes and maybe still win the match.

emr, 11 months ago

Important note for kbin (and fedia.io): if you sign up and fail to click that confirmation link, I think you're basically SOL. So don't make the same mistake I made! Click that confirmation link, it expires in an hour!

emr, 11 months ago

Way back in college, I took a class on systems programming where, because our professor was awesome, we logging in to macs remotely and pretended it was BSD Unix and worked on YACC and stuff. I'd of course used my linux terminal locally, but something about logging in to remote machines (and reading The Cucoo's egg) was undeniably cool, especially the idea of logging in to one other people also used. I hosted one of my first websites there, discovered and explored gopher, usenet, and of course (mostly lurked) the bboard.

emr, 9 months ago

For the tower defense enthusiast.