billwashere

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billwashere,

Why does this remind me of Death Stranding?

billwashere,

Did anyone else read this in Macho Man Randy Savage’s voice in your head?

billwashere,

I knew if I scrolled far enough I’d see this one. Go look on YouTube for cast iron restoration videos. These damn things would survive anything I believe.

billwashere,

It was. But I have several boys off in college that I rarely hear from… just hits a little hard.

billwashere,

Well fuck… now I’m gonna be sad every time I light my charcoal grill…

billwashere,

Probably a very unpopular opinion but…

Taylor Swift. I am so sick of seeing her name mentioned all the time.

billwashere,

And I thought the old internet was YTMND,slashdot, and fark.

Fuck I’m old.

billwashere,

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The Basque language, Euskara, is a language isolate - it is not related to any other known language. It is considered one of Europe’s oldest languages.

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Basque sports are a huge part of the culture, especially the traditional sport of pelota. There are many variations of this court-based ball game that has been played for centuries.

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The Basque region straddles the border between Spain and France along the Bay of Biscay. On the Spanish side it consists of the provinces of Vizcaya, Guipúzcoa, Álava and parts of Navarre.

billwashere,

I’d give anything for more of those moments. My son is 21 now and barely acknowledges me anymore. I hope he comes around and it’s just a phase but I have my doubts. So good call on playing legos. You have a limited number of those as a dad.

billwashere,

Yep same here. Professional IT for over 25 years. Nobody knows everything. It’s ok to fail. Just keep swimming. And when you do get something working…. that high is unbelievable. It’s like a drug addiction and will drive you to do more and more. Good luck!!!

Is it actually dangerous to run Firefox as root?

I have a few Linux servers at home that I regularly remote into in order to manage, usually logged into KDE Plasma as root. Usually they just have several command line windows and a file manager open (I personally just find it more convenient to use the command line from a remote desktop instead of directly SSH-ing into the...

billwashere,

No if you leave it running and don’t use it.

billwashere,

I’m going to hell for laughing so hard at this.

billwashere,

I know plenty of Jewish folks who aren’t happy with the Israeli government and how this is being handled.

billwashere,

Maybe it might because Israel is in the wrong? Maybe overreacting a bit and committing something awfully close to genocide? Just a thought.

billwashere,

In my freshman year of computer science our main computer lab was filled with Sage IV machines. Basically a Motorola 68k series with 4 or 5 serial terminals. Most people were writing Pascal code or using a simple word processor. But god forbid you were on there with someone taking assembly language. Because they could write really stupid code with super tight loops that never allowed any other code to run, and the only thing you could do was reboot. So if you hadn’t saved your code you were fucked.

So I never purposely wrote really bad code that would overwrite unprotected shared memory with random quotes from Marvin from HHGTG to mess with other people. I would never do that. That would have been unethical and shit… 🤔

I did learn a lot of basic hardware and operating systems though so there’s that.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sage_Computer_Technology

billwashere,

I’m a doctor not an escalator…

Wait wrong Star show.

billwashere,

Well having personally dealt with the Redhat and Ubuntu fiascos there are some that are clearly better than others 🤣

I would say that some are better dealing with certain hardware better than others. But you are right, it’s all Linux so any distro could be made to work.

billwashere,

Personally if it were me and gaming was my primary focus, I’d go to the place that’s doing the most with gaming and Linux, SteamOS.

There are lots of sites that go through the process of building a Linux gaming machine using SteamOS.

Here’s just one random video I found (not affiliated with this at all) about using an old optiplex from eBay, some ram upgrades, and a RX580 GPU. Apparently they did this for $150 but take that with a grain of salt. Hope this helps.

youtu.be/jFIgQ9zgXOk?si=ZR9VzF1YtFewcWIM

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