I started with Commodore KERNAL/BASIC 2.0 on the VIC-20, if that counts as an operating system. Otherwise GeOS on the Commodore 64.

First Linux distro was slackware 3.0.

Additionally, chat monitoring would not apply to accounts used for national security, investigations, or military purposes.

Why do they want to protect the pedophiles working for nations and militaries?

I guess it all depends on perspective.

I love that it’s free compared to those $10-20k licenses for similar systems.

I love that there are good package managers.

I love that it’s open source.

I hate that it’s GPLv2.

I hate how bloated the kernel is. I’d like it to fit into main memory.

I hate how it’s not POSIX-certified.

It depends on how far down the rabbithole you go.

I switched to Linux 27 years ago. My wife asks me to help her with her Windows computer every now and then, and I can’t really do it for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure is in the risk zone.

MorphOS. It’s still kicking.

In no order:

• Diablo 2
• Chrono trigger
• The incredible machine
• Loom
• Bravely default
• The secret of monkey island
• Prince of Persia
• Rampart
• Papers, please
• Zak McKracken and the alien mindbenders

I used to play it a lot when it was cool.

I thought it was an ncurses multiplayer tetris-clone.

Not me, and not Linux, but a school mate found the following bash snippet online :(){ :|:& };:.

Naturally, he tried it on the SunOS servers we had access to for schoolwork. He got his account suspended for the rest of the year.

I think most Linux distros are configured to kill fork bombs nowadays.

People sometimes do this to scout easy targets to rob.

If it didn’t move until their next burglary spree, you probably haven’t been home since they planted it.

Put it away and ask around if your neighbours had something out of place in their front yard.

Define cold.

I have an air-water heat pump as the only source of heat and hot water in my house. It takes heat from the air outside and dumps it into a 200 litre water tank. I’d guesstimate that 80% of the homes in my neighborhood have the same setup.

Temperatures are going to be around -10°C for the next few days. When the silver falls below -15°C a resistive element kicks in to help the pump. In my climate I won’t see more than a handful of those per year.

Nordic models scale down to -30°C before doing the same.

I took the dogs for a walk. Gas stations and 24/7 pubs were open.

You can. In practice

If you have two or more network adapters in your computer it can do network address translation to share your connection with your other devices that would use private IP addresses. If one of those network adapters is WiFi, your computer can act as a wireless access point.

Sounds like you’re looking for EncFS.

It’ll leak the size and structure of whatever you have there. Filenames and content are encrypted.

I guess I’d sail my late brother’s yacht for a season before I sell it. Could be nice to explore a new area without having to spend weeks on getting my own (bigger) yacht there.

I’d also inherit a couple of airbnb rentals, so I guess those would be business as usual. There’d be a couple of family houses to sell as well, I guess I’d invest those back into rentable real estate.

I was torrenting porn with good speed.

Seems unreasonably slow to me that xterm would take a second to start. My two computers running kernel 6.7 are slow than the machine in the test, both have BTRFS on LUKS.

I tried a cold start of xterm on my older thinkpad with an NVMe drive at ~0.3s.

A cold start on my desktop (also NVMe), 0.08s.

I’m unable to reproduce. I wonder if he might’ve had a fresh install with some background operations grinding on, or some indexing going on.

My 350€ three-year old phone has an SoC with 12GB of RAM.

I’ve discovered OneShortEye. He covers the speedrunning history of old point-and-click adventure games. I’m not particularly interested in speedrunning myself, but I’m just amazed at all the things I’ve missed in games that I’ve spent so many hours on. And the production quality is just insane for a one-man-show.

I think it’s a bit more invasive of a browser to inject shit depending on the sites I visit.