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CompNerd Stuff Show more

@craigmaloney
<AOL> Me Too! </AOL>

But seriously, so glad to hear I'm in such good company. :)

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I love Open Source Software. I pay money to the FSF. I've been using Linux full-time since 1994-5.

I worked for Sourceforge from 2008-2010. When the site burped while I was on-call it was me up at 3am making sure shit was working again.

I run my own servers. I serve my own email.

And yet there are certain services that I would rather other folks run because I don't enjoy being a full-time administrator.

Sometimes I just want to get shit done as best I can.

Bias toward free, but pragmatic.

IT nerding Show more

uspol nsfw - FML toot editing Show more

@XenonFiber
I usually do something like this : avoids some of the dopey stuff cat and echo do to string inputs:

$ /path/to/script<<EOF
input1
input2
input3
EOF

@Devils_Rancher Absolutely the chill tones I needed tonight. That is beautiful.

Now ...

@nobody
Pick your flavour - these are the stations I RNG my way through - there are more, in different formats and bandwidths. Check the soma.fm website to see if there are others you might dig. wiccat.net/files/somafm.xspf
wiccat.net/files/somafm.m3u
wiccat.net/files/somafm.html

@nobody If you're using a network-aware device I've found that a soma.fm channel playist put on shuffle, usually finds a groove (space station, secret agent, suburbs of goa, etc) that works for me. Have a prebuilt list if you're interested.

Corporate smeg Show more

Laptop Distribution Testing:
* Finished the Manjaro audit, not horrible wiccat.net/t430/Manjaro_Linux_
* Basic Debian next ...

My New Laptop:
Distribution Testing
wiccat.net/t430/
* Arch Linux - Completed [Fail City](1/11)
* Manjaro Linux - Installed [Still Testing] (2/11)

@starbreaker
Blessed Be, Strongest wishes for a full and rapid recovery, for both of you. (hug)

Race Myth - birdsite Show more

Early thoughts about AER:
* Linux port broken video detector causes black-screen hang at startup (forum post solved)
* Flight controls need in-game explanation, especially since this is game-critical transport. Spent much time flying straight down / lost in clouds. (forum post solved)
* Once you get past initial issues - it's a pretty, mostly open-world, setup w/puzzles that don't require being a mensa asshole to work out. Fun!
* Cleared the first temple and certain I missed stuff.
* Recommend

AER - I am in you ...

Blame is squarely on @krumbukt

@krumbukt

Old-school "Explorer" type gamer here. These days if a game isn't Linux-native, or at least wine-friendly, I don't play it. Wintendos are for chumps. ;p

AER looks like an Explorer's wet-dream come true. It's pretty, and looks open-world enough that I'm going to be stress-testing those limits. ;)

Once I'm not the on-call, I'll be firing this up. Might even use it to stress-test my new T430, once I decide which distro I'm gonna run on it. :)

@krumbukt

Dunno how I don't know about this game already. It's exactly the kind of thing I love playing. Never showed up in any of my Discovery Queues.

All five Steam Keys have already been taken, but that's cool - as I'm probably going to buy it anyway.
:)

USPol Show more