cptnapalm

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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Rising interest rates won't reduce the price of anything. Best it can do is slow the inflation down.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
While systemd does have many good features, it also has failed to turn computers off on various systems and distros. I repeat: failed to turn computers off. This wouldn't be acceptable in beta quality software. But it's systemd
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Ha! My grandmother lived with us when I was young and my parents hired someone to look after her while they were at work. I'd get home from school and she'd be watching Santa Barbara. When the Princess Bride came out, I already
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
"Enter your email to get 10% Off in our online store." And tab closed.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Perhaps the dotcom crash altered some opinions with respect to the need to monetize?
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I thought CK2 was generally considered an incest simulator to breed the best ruler.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
For CK, the advice for becoming familiar with it was to start out in Ireland. It's more isolated, so fewer moving parts.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
So the hope was that IBM would become Big Red, but instead we're getting Blue Hat.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I believe that at one point it was entirely in one room.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I play Conan Exiles which isn't exactly an MMO, but has the same sort of resource gathering grind. While my character is new, I don't actually mind it, but once I'm no longer just surviving, but thriving as a character, the
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Only game I ever played where I remained unmoving in one corner for half an hour and was not bored.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
At first, I thought tldr, the *nix lister for popular CLI options,had engaged in some serious feature creep.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I just find channels or playlists I'm interested in, copy-paste the urls into my TubeArchivist and let it handle getting them for me.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Not really related, but the last time I was on Facebook, its ads were so wrong I actually tried to improve it. It targeted me for endless hip hop ads. I don't like hip hop; nothing I've ever liked on FB had anything to do with h
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I wonder if you can get a brand license for DEC. Then the PiDP-11 could be an "real" DEC.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Systemd-pamd failed with exit code "exit-code".
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I think I'll give this a go with Conan: Adventures in an Age Undreamed Of. Been wanting to play it, but no one I know wants to play anything at all.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
To compare and contrast, when I was trying to get wifi up and working on my UltraSparc laptop, I read the OpenBSD man page for ipconfig. While very long, it got me up and running in short order. No Google required. On the Linux side, ther
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
When there's too much metal for one hand.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Oh my God, I want this. I have no use for it, whatsoever, but oh my God I want it anyway.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
It's still a magazine. Source: I work at a library and put the September 2022 issue on the shelf last week.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Expand that to things like olive oil, wine, lumber, jewelry, and the like, you'd have to go back before the bronze age.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Hadn't heard of this one before. Tried it out. I think I found a keeper.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Falling in the hole is the only thing I remember about ET. I have no recollection of any other aspect of it.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
That's perfect...
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
I tried several times to use LDAP, only to fail each time. Except for 1 user. Then I had to figure out how to stop using LDAP and put his stuff in the regular authentication system.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
ApplePII?
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
A Robert E. Howard quote I like: Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
Forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but couldn't you use PCIe RAM like cache in the same way a CPU's cache levels work? It's not as fast, but could feed the regular RAM faster than from another source.
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by cptnapalm 4y ago
And it's inexpensive, too! Will be ordering this. Thanks!

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