I haven’t seen these until much later

I didn’t get that far. And I only had an Amiga at that time, which made things more difficult to set up. I wonder how fluent transparency would be with AGA, haha. My next attempt was woth a PC around 2003 with KDE3 and it got me hooked.

I loved reading HOWTOs, they were a bit like scene zines, but the content wasn’t that helpful indeed

Contrary to other OSes, the information about it was mainly on the internet, no books or magazines. With only one computer at most homes, and no other internet-connected devices, that posed a problem when something didn’t work.

It took me weeks to write a working X11 config on my computer, finding all the hsync/vsync values that worked by rebooting back and forth. And the result was very underwhelming, just a terminal in an immovable window. I think I figured out how to install a window manager but lost all patience before getting to a working DE. Days and days of fiddling and learning.

Aren’t sysfs entries supposed to be created by kernel modules?

Huh, intereating to see MoE went mainstream!

/r/dhexchange

It’s a lifestyle, not a way to save money. I pay for piracy related tech more than a netflix subscription costs.

I clicked this looking for ATDT+blogposts and left disappointed

XFCE, using it for over 10 years, not planning to change it unless the DE changes radically.

Am i fucked if i haven’t posted on facebook since like 2014?

Xubuntu LTS. I’ve been meaning to switch to Debian Stable when something breaks, but it’s my third LTS on the desktop and 5th on the laptop and there was just no opportunity. I also learned to avoid PPAs and other 3rd party repos, and just use appimages when possible.

You can have a kernel from Testing or even Sid, I believe, but yeah, it’s what we want to avoid - tweaking.

LTS is released every 2 years, for reference.

A mandatory part at the beginning of every Ansible playbook!

https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal

So the web is a corporate war zone now and you can choose feudal protection or being attacked from all sides. What a time to be alive.

So now the adtech companies need to hire a minimum wage person in the EU, and I can write them a letter requesting they remove my anonimized data, doxxing myself in the process. Oh and now I know they’re sharing with 395 partners, as if that wasn’t obvious from uBlock before. And I get to sign a permission to process my data if I want to see a doctor.

I keep a domain full of interesting files, it stopped being indexed some time between 2010-2015. I don’t think it’s just mine, I never see the “index of” pages in search results any more, unless I explicitly search for that phrase.

What did GDPR solve? Did we get rid of advertisers sharing data?

Woah holy shit I thought it was the usual Drew DeVault crying wolf, but it looks actually terrible. I wonder why my webservers never experienced this. Too insignificant?

I’m not in the tier 4+ space but I know Scaleway has solutions there, I haven’t seen them mentioned.