Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social

@mathias I have a couple of media displays in my house that run Devuan. I like it well enough.

@westerling I wish there was a good alternative. I set up a VM that ran the old desktop version for my parents before they retired. Not sure how long you can keep that up, I would ask your/their accountant. I’m on the subscription treadmill because everyone knows QB.

I really liked the Halo series and was wondering when season 3 was coming out...looks like it's going to be long time if ever. Shame.

Pluribus is looking good so far...

I like Comic Sans and I don't understand all the hate it amassed.

@rl_dane I think you’re right, I must have misremembered.

@rl_dane I've got a 50MB ZIP disk somewhere around here, but no drive. I do remember checking that and the data was garbage. CD's were such a game changer for storage capacity, hard to understand if you didn't live it.

After a mostly effortless data retrieval from a borderline abused 3.5” floppy (27 years old), I just found out that I can fit about half an hour of opus encoded audio on a disk. That is amazing!

Ugh, stayed up way too late re-watching Blade Runner 2049.

“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
- Kurt Vonnegut

I have hijacked someone's evening. I didn't mean to, but I did.

And the data was GOOOOD! It was pretty much stored in a hot car and garage for 27 years. Only one Karel program left on there and it looks like my brother obnoxiously deleted the rest and left an idiot recording of himself. He deserves this.

Found my old Karel the Robot disk…I think there’s some Pascal stuff on here too, at least there used to be. Amazing that I can get a drive and disks delivered tomorrow in 2025.

@matthew @Androidauth https://liberux.net/
Looks promising…

@ElleGray I remember reading The Veldt, but not this one. Will give it a read👍

@reiver Stories like these are great because many people seem to have this notion that technically minded folks are born knowing everything. They miss seeing the long journey of learning and discovery that knowledge takes and also the fulfillment it can bring!

I finally did it.