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first real crack at running arch seriously in the form of archlinux32 on a very old thinkpad T42 and without setting any expectations of a desktop computer i'm actually having a pretty fun time just doing dumb shit on the TTY like making it play DVDs on the framebuffer

i don't mean to brag but i'm hot!! i got a great fuckin bod!!!!

if your web app doesn't work in firefox your web app doesn't work. it's literally broken. fix it.

if you have images that were poorly scaled up (non-integer) with nearest neighbor resampling, here's a script to fix those images: gist.github.com/Lana-chan/5b46

if you like the stuff i do please support me: ko-fi.com/squirrel

if you want to prove me wrong: mavica@netizen.club or box@conference.netizen.club

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really wish xmpp ever took off since it's the only IM service that runs on Windows 98 that's still online

the UNIX filesystem layout makes sense if you view the entire OS as a single piece of software with thousands of components that all work together and depend on one another, and can be composed together using scripts. but after using computers for decades i am now fairly certain that, for me at least, this is not, in reality, actually what an OS is or does, and package managers and other such tooling are really just square-peg-in-round-hole management utilities

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Falsehoods programmers believe about Windows 10:

We don't have to list builds in our minimum requirements because surely everyone is just on the latest build of Windows 10, right?

PSA: you can make a bootable CD from a floppy image (for example, for using boot floppy images on a retro laptop which has optical but no floppy drive) using imgburn and going into the advanced tab like so

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