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backports means software that's been "ported" to an older distro. I'm gonna keep the picture of a shady alley near the docks of merchant ships. Where you can adquire the packages that work on your system.

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Noctis was - at one point - the Italian No Man' Sky. In less than 5 MB it allowed users to explore a whole galaxy. It was developed by a programmer who has since isolated himself and who described Noctis as "telling my dreams to the computer".
I interviewed the developer and reconstructed the history of the title for Time Extension timeextension.com/features/the

The time when you could have your entire distro inside a single physical drive, comfortably, is over for me.

I tried for so many years to use a vertical screen... I just placed it horizontally... Not only that, but I feel like I'm home again.

#2 Entry on the Debian-Kindle ordeal: The Kindle hangs every single time I try to install anything with apt. So, I connected the Kindle to my rpi, did a chroot to the image that contains the system. And now everything works.

Package unavailable?, Dependencies unavailable?, libc too old?. Kernel too old?. TRY ssh to a more modern machine. GUARANTEED!*

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Oh, tomorrow I will consume a lot of coffee, WITH NO ADDED SUGAR! ha!

Good night, apt-get full-uṕgrade for everyone. Backup those important config files.

On any data breach, all you could find about me is going to be about nsfw stuff. Ye he he.

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Install LuaWare™ onto your personal computer and try out our helpful virtual assistant Vikkie®!

New goal: Grab any old 32bit laptop and turn it into the equivalent of an old dumb terminal.

ssh tunnel so apt works on the Kindle, so much happening.

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TIL: Using the GRUB bootloader, you can filter out bad RAM areas before the map of available memory is passed down to the payload kernel...

gnu.org/software/grub/manual/g

In the autism constraint, You want to do something that makes you wonder if it could be wrong in any way, you do it. Then comes that overwhelming feeling.

I get a perception that somehow there's a choice you can make on this, and it is so dependent on the situation, going around about it overwhelms you more.

*Inhales* yep. *Exhales*

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