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And because it's a joyous experience when it works. I just introduced my five year old son to the passwd utility, when he asked me if I could change the passwo
by duncan_bayne 9y ago
And because it's a joyous experience when it works.
I just introduced my five year old son to the passwd utility, when he asked me if I could change the password on his laptop[1]. The look of pride on his face when he mastered it (blind password entry was a challenge) was priceless.
[1] ThinkPad X121e w/ SSD and Xubuntu. X series ThinkPads running Linux make great kids machines. Cheap, decent keyboards, and hard to break.
- keithpeter 9y agoX series Thinkpads running Linux make pretty capable machines for adults as well for the same reasons. Back on thread: As an outsider, it seems to me that tracking down obscure bugs is a similar challenge to sorting out edge cases in obscure mathematics.
- duncan_bayne 9y agoThat they do :) My work machine is a maxxed-out X220 w/ FreeBSD: https://www.instagram.com/p/BXPY61pFkRK/ https://www.instagram.com/p/BXPY61pFkRK/ I keep my setup scripts in GitLab, so I can spin up a new dev machine pretty quickly: https://gitlab.com/duncan-bayne/freebsd-setup/wikis/home https://gitlab.com/duncan-bayne/freebsd-setup/wikis/home