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by jzb 3y ago
I’ve recently started rereading the series in publication order. At the moment, I think my favorite is “Reaper Man.” It has a fantastic story and humor, of course, but also some really wonderful lines. I feel like that title is where he rea
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by jzb 3y ago
I live in Durham and drive by this occasionally, but funny enough I don’t think I’ve ever needed to drive under it. They actually raised it a few years ago, but it still claims the occasional truck.
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by jzb 3y ago
I don't love the model, but it's hard to see long term how Roku sustains itself on hardware sales alone. How many new Roku devices does one house need in a 3-5 year period? Investors want recurring revenue streams, and a new Roku
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by jzb 3y ago
Text based is fine. I started with Slackware in 96, and I’m totally comfy with that - but when I installed OpenBSD I recall needing to supply some pretty detailed stuff about starting cylinders? It was lower level than I remember having to
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by jzb 3y ago
Perhaps this will help, there's a video demonstrating a UHF device where they switch channels to show the device output: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahtRI-_A1j8 It doesn't quite show static the way the website
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by jzb 3y ago
ISTR we had 2,4,5,9,11, and 30 (UHF). Channels 2-5 were ABC, CBS, and NBC. Channel 9 was PBS, and 11 and 30 were local stations that weren't affiliated with any of the major networks.
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by jzb 3y ago
I was the family remote control for years. This often led to arguments because I'd stop on what I wanted to watch instead of what my parents wanted to watch. "I said turn to channel 5!" "But I want to watch 'The Hul
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by jzb 3y ago
Yes, I remember well when in 1990 they went door to door handing out brand new TVs... Ahem. In the 80s I remember struggling with a set my grandparents must have bought in the late 60s to try to watch TV. It was like holding a seance for si
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by jzb 3y ago
I want to say I remember static between channels, but TBH it's been too many years to say for sure. My parents gave me a 12" black and white TV in the late 70s or very, very early 80s and I want to say it'd had static when sw
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by jzb 3y ago
I regret nothing. OK, that's not true. I regret plenty of things. But I don't regret time I wasted in my teens.
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by jzb 3y ago
Whatever goal streaming services have in designing their interfaces, it cannot be ease of finding content. Netflix, for example, basically just pushes the same 10-20 movies and series at you under different headings. At one time you could b
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by jzb 3y ago
2095 isn’t, but 2025 sure is if I’m thinking about my death! Also, for an event like this, even 70 years out seems “imminent” To me.
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by jzb 3y ago
Sun has its lunch eaten by Linux and commodity hardware. Selling proprietary UNIX and super expensive hardware was a great business until Linux and (comparatively) cheap Intel boxes were good enough for more and more customers.
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by jzb 3y ago
I tinkered with OpenBSD a long time ago and found installing was more of a headache than I cared for - specifically disk partitioning was a chore. I wonder if that’s gotten much better? Can’t see myself switching to OpenBSD at this point, b
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by jzb 3y ago
Shell company lawyer can show up and demand the activity stop. Lawyer doesn’t have to disclose names, they are acting on behalf of the corporate entity.
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by jzb 3y ago
The time for media PCs may be over, they may not. I have a Plex server and the NUC is a great form factor for that. But, even leaving aside media PCs, the form factor is great. They're powerful enough for me to use happily as a desktop
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by jzb 3y ago
Generally speaking, I think people have three choices: One is to pay for what you use and have a direct relationship where you have at least a little influence and stake with the company. Another is to go with community projects where possi
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by jzb 3y ago
Thanks for sharing that. It's illuminating. w/r/t btrfs - I recall when it was deprecated from tech preview in RHEL. I know some users really, really wanted it and it keeps popping up - Fedora is now using it, but I am skepti
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by jzb 3y ago
I think Arm could overtake x86-64 for server and client competing in about the same time period that x86-64 overtook x86. In 50 years? Sure, and they’ll be as likely to be replaced by other things in turn.
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by jzb 3y ago
“As I don't like software audits” You went with the distro cloned by the company that perfected the concept?
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by jzb 3y ago
If “affiliated with Red Hat” is a problem, why run something based on their code at all?
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by jzb 3y ago
Good on them! I think this is a great decision.
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by jzb 3y ago
I’ve got two AMD based Beelink boxen. They’re fantastic and at the right price. I hope Intel exiting this market doesn’t mean others will.
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by jzb 3y ago
Sure. Really depends on, well, the dependencies. The rpm command shipped with all those distributions should be compatible with the format of any recently created package. But you can run into snags if you have a dependency that doesn'
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by jzb 3y ago
I’m not sure it’s positive, they are very light on details. If this is a hard fork, is it really going to deviate from RHEL? Is a $10m investment enough to carry an enterprise distro for a decade? I’m a little skeptical about this right now
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by jzb 3y ago
Yes, they used the RPM format with their own tool (Zypper instead of DNF/Yum), but packages weren’t (necessarily) compatible with Fedora/RHEL as far as dependencies and such. But SUSE isn’t just a package of Red Hat.
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by jzb 3y ago
Yes, I'm aware. But I don't have any interest in mingling my work + personal / project email.
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by jzb 3y ago
That threw me for a loop. I went to download 115 and got 102. I've mostly stuck with webmail (Fastmail for personal, Gmail for work) but would love to get back to a local client. So I'm willing to give the new Thunderbird a shot,
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by jzb 3y ago
Enforcement doesn’t mean they can’t allow the community to use it under clear guidelines. Or if they’re not using it any longer commercially, O’Reilly could transfer any rights they have to the Perl folks and they could allow O’Reilly to us
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by jzb 3y ago
I notice all your examples are non-FOSS and older than Perl. Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, have mascots and logos. They’re more than languages, they’re projects with healthy communities that have their own identities and the camel is part of Perl

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