LucyLastic @ LucyLastic @beehaw.org

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lol, I never had anything like that at home (though I did end up with a 68K based VME system at one point). That AIX server was outgoing tech for SMEs even then, and I never worked for anywhere big enough to have anything Unix-y on it after that :-/

Still, it used to be cool how much oddly mixed hardware there used to be, whereas now there's a slick VM solution for any size of business.

It cruises at about 80km/h and on road the range is about 300km (I get 2.5L/100km but my other half gets 2.2L/100km because she doesn't ride as agressively).

The original version was made as a cheap farm bike for Spain, but the new facelifted version is ... a cheap farm bike in a new hat, lol

Oh fantastic! I was one of those young whipper-snappers with the technology of the future for OS installations - floppy disks. I can't remember what sort of tape was being used during my "learning the value of backups the hard way" experience above, but they were chonky and took about 8 hours to parse each full one so I could pop home and eat between feeding them into the machine.

It all worked like a charm though, no lost data or anything :-)

I want to say my exposure was 5.something? On a PPC server used for a production management database. I liked SMIT from what I can remember (the documentation was good), but everything went well silky smooth once I managed to track down bash for it and basically automated half my job with basic scripts, lol

Also fun fact, I once took the server offline by tripping over a SCSI 3 cable to the raid array (while sorting out the bird's nest of a comms room) and it took me 3 days to restore everything from backup.

That was my first steady IT job.

Yeah, the first time I saw CDE was doing AIX for PPC admin and I thought it was nice so went and got the student edition of Solaris for something like €7.50, lol

IIRC at the time CDE for Linux was available for about €50, which was a lot of money back then!

Unfortunately I had approximately zero apps for Solaris, so apart from playing with the OS I got no actual use out of it.

Nobody in here talking about BeOS, QDos, Geos (like windows for the C64!), AIX, or OS2 Warp? For shame!

QNX fucking rocked, I wish it had been useable as a day-to-day system. If I had to pick one it would be that sighs wistfully

Do you mean Workbench, or AmigaOS?

I do like the aesthetics of Workbench 3.9, the pixel art for the icons is very cute :-)

Yeah, that's what I'm using too, mostly because I don't want to spend time fiddling with computers these days

I still have a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere, I liked it because it had a nice window manager before Linux and I hold onto the disk out of nostalgia

As a former shift worker this makes perfect sense to me, my health improved radically when I switched to regular hours

No worries, it makes sense now!

What does this have to do with Spain?

https://rieju.com/en/fun/21/247/tango-125

The marketing for it is dire, it's basically a slow, lightweight, farm bike that can get pretty much anywhere off road, which is ideal for where I live

My array of cactii and succulents continue to look great, despite us being on year 2 of a drought. I have a painstaking reigeme of upkeep which is mostly looking at them and saying to myself "yep, that's a plant alright".

So, all in all I'm happy with my garden.

It's interesting that different people take different things away from the game, I love the base game with small trucks - team Fleetstar!

It is the cost that's holding me back now, I paid €2700 for my 2021 Tango a year ago and it has an expected lifespan of about 10 years at my current rate / style of use. There are other factors, but that's the main one ... I figure it will be the last petrol bike I buy.

Thanks for replying - I'm always dubious of the claimed ranges on anything electric being shown on youtube!

At the moment I use a small petrol motorbike, at some point though I'll make the switch I'm sure :-)

Cool, what sort of range are you getting?

Ah yes, IIRC they're quick, light, but lack the sort of pulling power one would want in mud ... kinda hard to find that outside of a full-blown motorbike!

FWIW I did read all of it!

Sometimes it's good to get a whole string of consciousness off one's mind :-)