azimir @ azimir @lemmy.ml

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He's on the short list for the head slot at the Library of Congress.

Just to put you all on notice: I started my kids on Linux from day 1 of their computing lives. I'm playing the long game here. In another 80 years they're going to be in the longest living users category.

They mostly use Linux as their daily drivers. Any time they have to use windows for school work they also rage at the terrible UI and lack of ease of use.

<Insert evil laughter here>

#! Linux was amazing. So simple in the UI, but plenty of features if you wanted to set them up.

Been there! It was Avery different time.

The first program I wrote was in the Logo Turtle Game on an Apple Iie in 4th grade. Did some BASIC programming on the Apple IIe's building interpreter too.

I use Arduino boards with Atmega, Esp32/8266, and M0 chips on them for embedded projects. These $8 boards have more processing capability then my first desktop computer....

I was given a logging on a RedHat server in 1997. It was operated by a fellow student in the dorm.

My school taught the engineers how to use SunOS for class, so it wasn't a huge leap to start using a telnet connection to a local Linux machine.

Within a few months I was dual booting an older desktop Linux/Win95, and away I went. Since then it's been about 90%+ of my daily computer use on Linux machines.

I'm in that track too! Soon, so very soon.

It's quite the logistics effort unless you can afford lots of help.

We're just doing it by hand, so it's crazy most days, but we're getting there.

Back when a PROM really meant something.

You could also drop into a serious bios-style motherboard manager to really control booting and hardware configs.

Wow. I haven't seen a Sun keyboard like that in .. geez forever. Whose were fun times. I was younger then.

A corporation will gladly kill you and your children for a dollar.

They're not your friends.

The Republican state reps in my area all voted in favor of protecting child abusers and child rapists. They're in favor of it too.

No! I've used OSU's mirrors for years. This would be a notable hit to OSS resources.

He will sieg heil, tho!

Our crew is currently heading to a consulate for more German Visa steps. In just our family, two STEM phds, multiple kids going into engineering, and other college grads are moving out of the US.

I've lost funding for my research here. Yet again due to Republican anger at education. Every time they take control of power they fuck over my career. So, I'm done. I'll go do software engineering research in a country that wants me.

When you look at the list of groups attacked and burned by the Nazis in the past, we check multiple boxes. I'm not subjecting my children to that.

We're insanely privileged to be able to make this move and I know most others left behind don't have this luxury.

"American Nazi Party Leader Condemns Foreign Government for Classifying Nazis as Nazis"

Because when I move left in tabs, the cursor isn't clear which tab I'm on. It also tried to sit off the left edge of a terminal in some editors because it aligns with the right side of the character (the tab), instead of the left.

I do see how tabs are a better option : they allow the one editing the file to decide how wide the indentation is. That's actually good User Interface design, by separating the data from the rendering layout.

I can see the argument both ways, but I like to use spaces so the visual and editing interfaces are more standard.

Would it be better if I clarified by calling them "ball bearing balls"? Or would that lead to my unpleasant pummeling by steel balls?

I haven't looked into it too hard yet. I saw some design that would allow remote GUI rendering for Wayland, but it likely won't be the all in design for network transparency that X11 had (has).

I use SSH with X forwarding for all kinds of system maintenance and demos in my CS courses.

15+.... I was there, Gandalf.... We had these kinds of setups 25+ years ago. How time flies.

Before that, it was often XTerm style systems. The local machine only booted an XServer and then connected to a central UNIX system. All programs ran on the UNIX server, and were rendered on the XTerm/XServer you were sitting at.

The original XServer systems were efficient enough to run over serial lines, not just Ethernet.

Another setup was to put multiple monitors/keyboards/mice on a single UNIX/Linux tower and have it launch multiple XServer sessions so you could have a single computer with up to six people sitting at it.

I also managed a Rembo lab for a bit. It used a PXE shim OS to get a menu from the Rembo server. From there, you could boot the main OS, or download a new hard drive image from the server. I would build new drive images and upload them to the server, then updating the lab would mean rebooting the computers and clicking a "grab latest" button. It actually worked very well for distributing OSes. We had both Linux and Windows images students could pull down.

Lab management at scale is a continual struggle to keep everything functional and patched.

That's part of the power of the term. Globalism is a valid term for a view about how integrated international markets foster economic and social benefits, while Globalist is often used as a racist dogwhistle. Racists often use small variations of accepted terms to conflate and low key their hatred in public venues.

Oh yeah. The hierarchical thinking inherent to the Conservative mindset is one of authoritarianism. They want to know their place in the hierarchical structure, which they wholeheartedly believe places them above someone else. Even though they have a boot on their face, at least they have their boot on someone else's face too.

They truly believe there must be a hierarchy. They can't seem to envision a world without boots on faces or that maybe we should work for a place without boots on faces.