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davefischer
davefischer @ davefischer @beehaw.org
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What are some of your favorite music from Movies, TV, Video games, Anime/Cartoons?

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    • what's the biggest downgrade you had to ensure so far, and how are you holding up?

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  • I never recovered from the 3g network being shut down.

    I had a great setup with a 3g modem & a 3g phone. sms messages from friends would come to my laptop when I was sitting at my desk, and when I was away would be forwarded to my phone. I had all sorts of commands I could execute on my server from my phone via sms. Home automation, media player, etc.

    I replaced the 3g modem with a 4g model from the same company and... no one would give me cheap sms-only service. Everyone considered it a "hot spot router", so 10x the monthly fee for service. No way. (The REALLY frustrating thing there was that the 4g modem was much nicer from my perspective. Talking to the 3g modem took a few hundred lines of C. Talking to the new one was a 20 line shell script.)

    Also, 4g coverage apparently sucks here. I have to walk out to the front of the building to MAYBE get a signal.

    I've given up and switched to xmpp over wifi, which works great in some ways, but doesn't replace everything I had working with the 3g setup.

    • The Curse of the Ramones

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  • I'm glad I saw them once, reasonably early, and then not again. I'll continue to pretend their later career does not exist.

    • [Mostly resolved] Mounting NAS in linux

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  • The default is that root does not have root access over nfs. In some situations, that results in root seeming to have LESS privs than other accounts.

    But there are options to change that. On my home lan, root is root over nfs.

    • What's a silly thing you believed when you were little?

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  • Cuttlefish ink used to be used as ink. Primarily in ancient times, but... that is real.

    • Is it possible to use exclusively a TTY on Linux?

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  • I ran Unix at home all through the 90s with just serial terminals, didn't switch to X until 2000. But... I wasn't using the web. There's a lot of sites now that just don't work with lynx. (Is links better on that point? I don't know.)

    • Ancient historical fiction?

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  • It's certainly interesting! Definitely a glimpse into a very distant culture.

    • What are some good, 'easy reads'?

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  • Oz or Moomins. Two great series.

    (Especially after any language studies reading, which is stressful.)

    • askBeehaw: what's something that made your day recently?

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  • There was a nest of ducks next to the river behind my building a few years ago:

    • another beehaw introduction thread

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  • Computers, art, music, blah blah blah. My cats think I'm cool.

    • Who are some of your favorite "pulpy" authors?

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  • From the original "pulp" era: Sax Rohmer. Love that 1920s pulp fiction. He's horribly racist, but it's enjoyable if you just swap the "heroes" and "villians" in your head as you read. (Fu Manchu is the most evil man in the world because... he wants to free China from British colonial rule? Right. Go Fu Manchu!)

    Also, Doc Savage. I like Doc in the same way I like the 60s Batman TV show: I don't particularly like the "heroes", I just enjoy the environment. (In one Doc Savage story I read recently, Doc's plane is described as being so INCREDIBLY high-tech and bleeding edge, that the WHEELS RETRACT WHEN IN FLIGHT. Amazing. WHAT ELSE WILL THE FUTURE BRING!?!?)

    I grew up on Lovecraft, but have discovered that what I like most in his work was done better, previously, by Lord Dunsany. (Particularly the Dream Quest stuff.)

    I own a few magazines from the end of that era. These are issues #2 & #3 of Fantastic Magazine, 1952: