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Hellfire103
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Cake day: January 28th, 2024
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I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.
Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.
Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.
Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00
Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?
Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.
Also “They said the 19th June 2024” doesn’t work so great as a title.
55·1 month agoYou were, but it appears OP is running Windows in a VM on Linux.
I’ll wait and see how this turns out, but I’ll keep openbsd.org open in my browser. Just in case.
691·2 months agoGuess it’s time to either get a new pendrive, or enter the void.
I have FreeBSD on my ThinkPad, and I’d use it on more of my boxes if any of the other WiFi hardware was supported.
This is the entire debian-official Tumblr, summed up in one photo.
To be fair, RBOS was the first distro to ship Wayland on the live image.
Check out redlib. It’s a fork of Libreddit that doesn’t get ratelimited.
The instance I use: https://lr.vern.cc/
If anything happens to that, not only will it probably be forked, but there’s also kddit and Eddrit, as well as a couple of old Libreddit instances that Reddit forgot about.
Probably wrote his own microkernel, tbh; but I reckon he would be a Slackware or Funtoo user.
- OpenRC just feels nice
- Runit is simple
- S6 is really fucking fast
- Some distros (e.g. Guix, Void, Gentoo) come with non-systemd init systems by default, but I use them for other reasons
As for why I sometimes use musl, I like BSD. Also, Alpine Linux uses it by default, and most glibc software I’ve tried works just fine with gcompat.
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Well, since I started using the naming scheme, I have several lines of machines. Pearl-II (MacBookPro11,1; 2014) is the successor of Pearl (MacBook2,1; 2007), both of which are part of the Pearl line.
Lengthy explanation
Essentially:
- Garnet - Main machine, which should be the most powerful if possible.
- Amethyst - My ThinkPad (or equivalent) with as much GNU or BSD software and firmware as possible. If I were to go to an FSF convention, this would be the machine I bring with me.
- Pearl - My MacBook, dual-booting Linux and the latest supported version of macOS.
- LapisLazuli - “The Other One”. This machine is the one I use for experimenting, or for leaving at other people’s houses if I visit a lot. As of 01/04/24, this one is probably due an upgrade, but I’ll keep using it until Mageia drops x86_64-v1.
- Spinel - My SBC. Currently a Raspberry Pi 3B+, but Spinel-II should be just around the corner.
- Peridot - My tablet (because Peridot from SU has a tablet). Unfortunately, I chose to buy a crappy £80 Android tablet from Argos, so I avoid using this machine if I can help it.
- Carnelian - My phone. Currently an iPhone SE (Carnelian-II), but Carnelian-III will be something with DivestOS, I am sure.
- Larimar - My PineTime.
I also use the diamonds for my family’s devices, if I need to assign hostnames; and Jasper for any Windows devices or VMs I have to use.
Also, I only bought three of these devices: Garnet, Peridot, and Larimar. The rest I was given by my uncle over the course of about a decade. Essentially, whenever a line gets an upgrade, the other lines rearrange. For example, when I was given Pearl-II last month, it replaced Amethyst as the machine I take to sixth form, so Amethyst replaced Lapis, Lapis replaced the original Pearl, and the original Pearl was retired.
Before I started using this, I just used to use random names that had something to do with the OS, so my ThinkPad was “Nemesis” and my main machine was “Archangel”.
Cool! I name my storage drives after weather (e.g. STORM19, LIGHTNING12, REDSPRITE24).
My HP’s hinge broke, too. I had to pack the entire back of the case with putty in order to fix it, and it’s still not quite right.