I tried slackwear in '94. Getting it running was no big deal, but I had zero experience and documentation / help guides were thin. Installing applications or getting peripherals to work was prohibitively difficult without having a pretty decent amount of knowledge about it.

My high school had a rather large dose/novell Network but there was no internet yet. BBS’s were a thing and you could get a lot of installers and information from them. But they were all running in dos for the most part

My college had a VAX, it was more or less there just to get email and power a metric ass load of terminals in the library for research purposes. They really tried to keep you out of the CLI, everything was menued. I figured out that you could go for it to a South African University about seven times in a row and it would explode and give you a telnet session, but even then I wasn’t really working with an OS shell. The school had a computer lab. It was all Windows 3 and Novell, No internet for the longest time.

My ISP had options to dial up into a terminal session. My home dial up line was awful. Trying to FTP over PPP was a fool’s errand. I started getting used to connecting to my ISP and FTPing files down to their local node on with their T1 and then switching over to z modem to download the files to my house with the ability to auto restart on failure.

I didn’t try to run a Linux based OS again until Gnome came out.

I’ve been Linux in the desktop for years. You really don’t have any choice other than to be a little bit flexible.

More times than not it turns out to be a plugin that screws over the site. Here’s my general path:

Won’t load in Firefox? Disable privacy badger and ublock origin

Still won’t load? Try it in a private window with no extensions loaded

Still won’t load? Move over to brave.

Still won’t work? Disable Shields

Still won’t work? Straight to a vanilla copy of edge, (a vanilla copy of Vivaldi would also be reasonable)

Just last night I ran into a problem with my ADP work portal. Things worked fine for ages, All of a sudden my password wouldn’t work. I went into private mode My password now works but loading the actual page netted me a blank page

I opened it up in brave and it just worked outright.

Two separate unrelated people.

Both in their twenties

Invites them into second/third base consensual relations and then it turns into rough sex.

I think that it’s an absolutely reasonable assumption that he is into younger women and doesn’t stop after he gets the green light.

But the article is light on details, and he at least deserves to have his say in court over it.

My thoughts exactly.

Also nothing is stopping someone from forking an open browser and throwing money/bodies at keeping it up.

It’s be a shame to lose free updates, but certainly not undoable.

Price wise, that’s a lot less than I expected

No, I’d have accepted too expensive as an answer. They were ready to die on the hill that no one could possibly create a new browser from specs.

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out. I’ve had more than a handful of people bitching at me that it’s impossible to make a new, open web browser in this day.

What if the visuals and monologues are trained and not gifted?

I hated reading for years and years, I read well above grade level in school but honestly hated it.

Decades later, I got into audio books, which kickstarted me reading.

The visuals I’ve gotten over the years went from almost nothing to vivid recreations.

You’re right, better to pick some battles and live another day to do something good.

The IA needs to lay low a bit before we loose them. There’s plenty of stuff out there they can archive that we need that won’t piss off copyright.

We need an ipfs or torrent library that’s out of easy reach of the courts.

I think bi-partisan challenging of opinion pieces containing verifiable falsehoods is a pretty healthy idea for the public.

I totally get the intent of this message, but it’s so beautifully reads both ways.

I was totally on board until centos got screwed over ( and subsequently AM2 )

I’ll be a cold day before I touch any fedora or redhat again or even mention to another person that they should run it.

Yeah, My volt battery is in the floor of the trunk. If the battery on the volt dies you can’t open the trunk easily. Physical locks in the doors are no problem but they didn’t put a keyhole on the damn trunk.

You can pop the hood and access the jump terminals and then pop the trunk. You can also crawl into the back hatch from inside pull a panel off and pop the trunk.

Yeah Netflix has to pay for edge connections in major ISPs, and host cash is in places.

Yeah that’s kind of the direction I was thinking. I really want to have access to the screen and the touch controls on the shows though. It’ll all come in time.

There’s another really wicked side project I saw running on pis. You put a Bluetooth enabled device in every room and it tracks where your items are. So you could ask where your keys aren’t to triangulate which room in your house they were in.

Filebot a piece of software, it looks up your files on TMDB and themoviedb and renamese your files based on those lookups. Plex takes that naming very very well. We really need jellyfin to work with it too.

I assume their motherboard is a write-off. The form factor in speaker are probably all we have to start with. For a few bucks you could turn it into a decent Bluetooth speaker. Want to get a little more intense if you want to do anything interesting like voice control.

I’d really like to find a way to drive the display and touch screen on the shows

How long till there’s a solid project to gut Alexa devices and run them from pis arduinos and pico’s?

I’m trying to switch to Jellyfin I really am. With Plex I could just throw a file bot at my files normalize the names and it was fine. I can’t mark things watched or unwatched from the Roku client. I’ve now tried three separate times to get the Doctor who specials to show up with names. Plex is by no means perfect but it’s so much easier to keep Plex goomed