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by lproven 1mo ago
Aha. I was very vaguely notionally Church of England until age 11, although still had to go to Chapel daily from 12-17. I have never been to Mass and I don't really know what goes on in a Mass. I'm not even sure if Anglicans have
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by lproven 1mo ago
Oh my! Well, from faint 30-years-on recollection, it was the end of '96 so I guess I needed to save up for it. Thanks for the correction! Ordinary relatively cheap consumer Matrox cards could be paired up. I couldn't afford a fanc
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by lproven 1mo ago
You can always reduce the font size a little so it isn't indented so far?
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by lproven 1mo ago
I guess I have mainly met older kiwis! I slightly know Terry Stewart of https://www.classic-computers.org.nz/ from mailing lists, and while I don't follow any Youtube channels as a rule, I used to enjoy his v
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by lproven 1mo ago
Before I was a Linux type I was a Windows expert, and when I went freelance in 1996, I built myself a fairly serious NT 4 rig: Pentium II 450, 192MB of RAM (I think), and dual Matrox Millennium cards so I could drive dual 14-15 i
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by lproven 1mo ago
> Choosing words that carefully takes some serious dedication. No it doesn't. If you're careful about how you speak and how you write then it takes next to no additional effort at all. I used to do this with all of
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by lproven 1mo ago
> They do not enjoy the process Dude, it's a text prediction engine. It can no more "enjoy" a process than a stapler enjoys poking wire through paper. Don't kid yourself. It's the first step down a slip
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by lproven 1mo ago
> "missils" would be more phonetic Only for Americans. In British English, it's "MISS isle", and "MISSul" is a church book. I'm not Christian and I am not sure of exactly what's in a _
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by lproven 1mo ago
A shibboleth is a little more specific: it's the pronunciation of one specific sound in a different way that marks out a person as from one specific group. So, some of the go-tos... New Zealand English tends to turn an &#x
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by lproven 1mo ago
> Specifically, upper-class Brits pronounce the "h". I think you have this slightly muddled. It's not that upper-class Brits pronounce more of the "h" sounds. The idea is that upper-class types go to priv
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by lproven 1mo ago
> Even KDE looks better today. :-o I am honestly amazed. IMHO KDE is fugly and it always has been.
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by lproven 1mo ago
Heh. It worked. Maybe I should start writing all my HN responses like this. :-) In the early '90s I occasionally wrote circular messages, and once, I recall spending a good chunk of an hour composing one in the shap
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by lproven 1mo ago
4 leading spaces, is that right? Let's see... I used to write all my online posts like this in my early days of having own personal email address. My primary email is from 1991 and I used it, and DOS-based tools, to
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by lproven 1mo ago
> either have a discoverable GUI for noobs, or a configurable, keyboard driven system Absolutely wrong. Windows is both and it can be 100% keyboard driven.
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by lproven 1mo ago
No no, be fair -- some of us ridicule everyone using AI and the slop they get it to extrude.
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by lproven 1mo ago
This one is news to me! Thank you! How long has it been around? Anyone tried it and can give an impression of what it's like?
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by lproven 1mo ago
Nah. Doesn't really matter when you are building the hardware to do that job. And in any event, FreeBSD is primarily a server OS, and its support is quite good in that department. Example: OpenBSD and NetBSD both will install X11 and a
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by lproven 1mo ago
As the others said: chasing big-corporate $$$. You can integrate a fleet of Linux storage servers with a collection of K8s clusters more easily than a you can BSD storage servers. Getting BSD and Linux talking smoothly needs Real Unix Skill
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by lproven 1mo ago
TrueNAS SCALE is not BSD based. It's Linux, specifically, Debian.
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by lproven 1mo ago
The thing is that this would seem to be a whole new shell, needing constant maintenance and adjustment to keep it current with KDE. Whereas AIUI the alternative here is just a cosmetic change to Xfce and shouldn't need any maintenance
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by lproven 1mo ago
It's pretty but it's just GNOME with a ton of extensions. There are no true title bars, so I can't middle-click the title bar to send the window to the back. I can't roll up windows into the title bar. Random dialog butt
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by lproven 1mo ago
> a fully-featured File Explorer work-alike complete with previews of every file type and a full-on context menu copy Corel LinuxOS did this at the turn of the century. Xandros took it even further. Sadly, although a company is still aro
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by lproven 1mo ago
Why not both?
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by lproven 1mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49460716 (Phoronix) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454542 (Project site) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49463938 (OS News stor
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by lproven 1mo ago
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49454542 (4 comments)
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by lproven 1mo ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49451029
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by lproven 1mo ago
Oh, I see what you mean, now. All right: conceded -- that is true.
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by lproven 1mo ago
Conceded. :-)
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by lproven 2mo ago
The ancient Sumerians invented cuneiform writing about 5000-5500Y ago. This is as long before ancient Sumer as ancient Sumer is before us today. Mind-boggling.
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by lproven 2mo ago
Yup. I was there, using the web, back then. I used Altavista dozens of times a day. It wasn't very good. I never thought of it. I never thought of the Million Dollar Homepage, either. It's still there! https://milliondo

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