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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I used to do something like this in the 90's when using PaintBrush (pre mspaint). Until one day when I learned about holding shift.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have an unhealthy fascination with far right shit heads, chief among them Alex Jones. And as an avid listener of Knowledge Fight I can tell you that the predictions once the invasion started didn't just age like milk; Enough cheese was made to feed the entire sub-saharan subcontinent.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume the revolver cylinder matches the amount of barrels, and they spin in unison during fire.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The forest can't be harmed
when its inhabitants are armed.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe the packaging worker mistook the sticker for the one labeled Gluten Free

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If windows didn't exist, linux would dominate with the problems you describe, and we'd still see this meme, but advocating for FreeBSD instead.

That being said, I like them both. It's been a while since I last used bsd, so I think it's about time I give it another spin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not very practical, but good for understanding the OS: Everything is a file. Even your filesystem and harddrive is represented by a file (devicenode).

Back in the day, before things such as pulseaudio and equivalents became the norm, there was also such a file (it might still exist, idk) for your soundcard. By shoving the contents of a wav file directly into /dev/dsp, you could hear it as if it was played normally.

Unrelates to the above, in a terminal context it's very handy to learn the concepts of STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and how to manipulate these. I won't go into it here, but whenever you see a bunch of commands strung together with redirects, < > | >>, that's usually for sending the output (STDOUT) of one command somewhere else, such as to the input STDIN to another command.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've always been intrigued by that one. I want to test it out, but finding an image has proven difficult.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Cool. I used to live in Brno (although I am Norwegian). I had a coworker from Praha who used to curse commies on a daily basis when we worked offshore together. "What kind of asshole party man designed this commie piece of shit??!". He grew up in the 80's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

[Insert trolley problem here]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

May I ask which country?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I miss /usr/ports. I could spend days just exploring its contents.

I miss an /etc structure that wasn't a complete mess.

I miss UFS and its soft updates.

I miss the stability of fBSD 3 and 4.

I miss the ease of which you tweaked, compiled, and installed a new kernel.

And just because of the hilarious legacy that was obsolete 20 years beforw I started with it, I miss the concept of font-servers.

The main reason for my migration was the bigger userbase of linux where it was easier to find people who has resolved whatever issue I was having, plus nvidia drivers. Plus I've only needed to use fBSD once professionally.

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