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  • I like the TeX version scheme, it starts with version 3. After that it's:
    3.1
    3.14
    3.141
    3.1415 etc. Current stable release is 3.141592653. The message is that each version is a more accurate approximation of pi. It's not growing much bigger, but better.

  • When I saw the numbers "7.04" I immediately heard the login drum-like sound "bu-du-bup" and remembered Feisty Fawn. It's one of my fondest computer memories. It felt like a friend.

  • As a long time Linux user, I had a humbling experience when I started using OpenBSD and had to look up all the details like "what is /dev/rsd1c?" or "how do I connect to wifi automatically?" It's not hard, and it's right there in the manpages, but it was a little overwhelming figuring out everything. And then I was already used to the unix-like terminology, I can only imagine coming from windows.

  • I think it's a win. For most people the computer is a tool to look up information and communicate, etc. If they can do that with free software, we all benefit, even if they don't fall down the rabbit hole and spend endless nights configuring tiling window managers and arguing about vi vs emacs.
    Lately I've felt an itch to put together a manual for these people, a sort of "Linux for people who don't really care about Linux"-manual. The problem I guess is that they are not likely to seek out a manual to begin with.

  • It didn't happen in one big exodus, no. But maybe in the future someone will find those old posts and decide to make a new post instead of just concluding there's nothing and not doing anything.

  • There might be a significant number of users here waiting for everyone else to switch over to lemmy. If you start a niche community, it's a little easier for someone else to be like "It's kind of empty, but it exists on lemmy too." What you need is a critical mass of people. It usually takes time and effort to reach that, and someone must be first.

  • To lie in the firm dark rock, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

  • One thing I have learned using OpenBSD is actually reading the manpages first. After an install there's a friendly mail from Theo, then afterboot(8) and intro(8) answers a lot of questions.