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2026-06-13 19:45:41 UTC

I got absolutely sick of screwing with a few modern computers and decided they're absolutely cursed so I pulled out an old computer to play with, and it reboots when you try to initialize the CD-ROM drive, but it also won't recognize the hard drive without a CD-ROM drive installed.
So it turns out all computers are just cursed.

2026-05-29 13:59:41 UTC

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Danke :)

2026-05-29 05:07:48 UTC

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Err, so anyway, my stupid question,
What do I do, what does this mean, am I wasting 384k of RAM, and why does it work (or not work, as the case may be) this way.

2026-05-29 05:06:38 UTC

Hey so I have a stupid question
I have a 386sx computer, with 1MB of built in RAM, and 1MB of SIMM RAM. In the BIOS, it shows the first 640K of built in RAM as base, obviously, but it will only accept 512k, 1024k, 4096k under extended RAM. Which suggests the remaining 384k of built in RAM is going unutilized. Unless I turn on "Remap shadow RAM", then that 384K shows up under "Remapped RAM"
But it won't let you turn this on if you have hard drive type set to "custom" or "auto", for some reason

2026-05-14 16:07:02 UTC

I feel like if every developer had to download all the dependencies for their project at 20KiB/s, projects might finally stop having hundreds of dependencies just for simple utilities.

2026-04-23 17:41:18 UTC

I continue to think, despite 100% of reviewers disagreeing, that aluminum is actually a really crap material for making laptops out of

2026-04-16 01:49:31 UTC

Wait, hold up, you can steal all of someone's money, from a locked iphone, in mere seconds, and have been able to for years and years and years,
And I'm supposed to believe that mobile OSs are more secure than desktop Linux or BSD?

2026-04-10 19:49:30 UTC

Using modern software is not rocket science.
Not even rocket scientists can get it to work.

2026-04-07 04:06:42 UTC

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Seriously though, I kinda hate the societal expectation to give someone my real name first thing I do when I meet them.
Can we normalize using a fake name until you really know someone?

2026-04-07 04:05:39 UTC

Politicians out here expecting me to use PII online when I don't even like to use PII irl

2026-04-07 01:32:34 UTC

Installing operating systems is _so_ fucking much easier and faster on traditional bios systems

2026-04-04 05:23:16 UTC

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I love rally games, gonna have to check this out

2026-03-29 05:44:56 UTC

I keep trying to be a cheerier, sunnier person, but I keep having this problem where, I very much hate living, and would absolutely prefer to die. And that really puts quite a damper on things

2026-03-23 04:50:08 UTC

Why are American "Science" and "History" TV shows always like
"This man was found at the bottom of his stairs with a broken shin. This begs the mysterious question, did he:
Fall down the stairs.
Get kicked by an alien.
Fall into and then back out of an alternate dimension.
Join us, while an amateur meteorologist and a professor of art history explore each of these options with an inverse ratio between screen time and probability of being true"

2026-03-05 04:48:32 UTC

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It's 8GB of non upgradeable RAM for like $700

2026-02-27 04:32:00 UTC

Win 2K is such an awesome experience, but I just can't reconcile the fact that it is not only proprietary, but a microsoft product.
It's clear to me that I _need_ to make my own OS. But that also looks, like, super duper hard, and I'm the _full_ stupid

2026-02-26 20:46:04 UTC

Genuinely working on daily driving Windows 2K.
As I'm getting this set up, one of the first things I'm noticing is how much better the mouse behaves.
I thought maybe the reason I miss click on stuff so much is because I've got bad muscle memory, or my nerves have just gotten burnt out and lazy, or something like that. But no, it genuinely looks like pointer tracking on modern software just absolutely fucking sucks

2026-02-19 01:56:02 UTC

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Absolute power corrupts absolutely

2026-02-14 16:33:18 UTC

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:blobcathuggies:

2026-02-14 16:30:59 UTC

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Well, I still don't have much hope. But I guess I'll try a little harder

2026-02-14 16:24:41 UTC

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I'm just too worried I'd hurt people, rather than help

2026-02-14 16:19:18 UTC

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There's nothing _I_ can do to help her. I couldn't protect her while she was here. And now that she's left, I can't even go visit her.

2026-02-14 16:15:44 UTC

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I don't care about me. I only care about her. And the world is consistently very cruel to her.

2026-02-14 16:12:12 UTC

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Well, I already have no hope of ever being a good person myself.

2026-02-14 16:10:14 UTC

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My little sister is already a good person. She deserves a rose garden.

2026-02-14 16:04:03 UTC

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My little sister went out into the world to find good people. Every time she thinks she's succeeded, they go and hurt her. I have less and less faith that there are actually very many good people in this world.

2026-02-14 02:20:56 UTC

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There really is no end to the amount of bad people on this planet :(

2026-02-14 01:36:05 UTC

This just in:
Apparently humans still suck

2026-02-11 17:52:27 UTC

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I really don't like people, though. I hate being around people. I feel even worse than I usually do when I have to actually interact with people irl
I'm really, really not a humanitarian. I just don't like hurting people, which I have an awful tendency of doing anyway no matter how hard I fight it
Also, I grew up hearing that men should never interact with kids theyre not related to, or employed to deal with. Volunteering with children especially isnt something I think of as a thing

2026-02-11 06:22:11 UTC

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The world will really be a better place once I'm dead

2026-02-11 05:39:13 UTC

Yeah, ok, we're going full depression spiral now. Cool

2026-02-08 18:29:59 UTC

Yo apparently Texas police seized _Sally Mann_ pictures from an art gallery last year? How did I not hear of this before??
Seriously, how are people ok with this? Have we forgotten what art is all about??

2026-02-05 16:26:22 UTC

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I don't doubt it.
I'm not talking about the experience of being a parent. I'm talking about the experience of existing. This is just fundamentally a crappy world to exist in

2026-02-05 05:16:37 UTC

Ngl, at this point, at this point, the world is such an absolute nightmarish shithole, that it is _actively painful_ that people keep having kids, and keep putting more new life through this unbearable slog.
I don't understand. I don't think I'll ever understand, how people can possibly think this is ok.

2026-01-30 04:13:02 UTC

Finally got my diploma. I'm officially a college graduate

2026-01-23 22:36:17 UTC

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it's proprietary. Whole point would be to get away from that

2026-01-23 21:56:09 UTC

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LoRa kinda, bothers me, tbh

2026-01-23 21:23:53 UTC

I always have this strange urge in the back of my mind to build a pager, even though I have no possible use for one and probably wouldn't want to need one anyway

2026-01-22 18:57:59 UTC

How the fuck is modern search actually _this_ bad
The only "18" is in the price.
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/115/940/272/047/288/914/original/f7d0856bf095c05d.png

2026-01-13 04:07:58 UTC

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This is true, yeah

2026-01-12 19:10:57 UTC

It's essential that we all remember, laws don't actually have to be enforced.
There are lots of laws that aren't, and very little legal requirement for "law enforcement" to actually enforce laws.
So any time a law is enforced, it's either by choice, or out of stupidity.

2025-12-26 00:26:37 UTC

I've been seeing more and more people say that, assuming software wasn't _mindbogglingly_ unoptimized, _most_ people would be _totally_ fine with a [486 through core 2 duo, depending who you ask] and everything newer is pretty much unnecessary for the _majority_ of tasks,
And let me just say, I'm all for this. Genuinely _love_ this trend. Agree 100%

2025-12-25 06:26:39 UTC

So, my parents got me a really awesome tool set, name brand and everything, so like, wow, jaw dropped, I was not prepared for this

2025-12-24 19:45:03 UTC

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Ah, so a bit like NAT routing?
A lot of people see it as a stopgap until IPv6 becomes ubiquitous, but it's actually insanely handy for security and network layout/separation. (I will die on this hill)

2025-12-17 01:38:41 UTC

Listen, I literally have a death wish, and yet driving is still absolutely terrifying.
WTF is wrong with everyone, this is not ok

2025-12-13 01:19:30 UTC

I low key hate it when companies try to bring back things I loved, because they always completely fuck it up and ruin everything

2025-12-12 22:07:25 UTC

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I've been reading up on, and it looks like DNS over HTTPS _does_, but then TLS actually provides it's own unencrypted path that can be snooped, although it looks like there have been efforts to encrypt that as well, although there appears to still be debate as to how well it's been done. And plus there are still IP addresses, though there's debate about how well the sites you visit can really be tracked through those these days, and I think I'm too deep plzhlp

2025-12-12 06:33:13 UTC

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I'm not entirely sure how self hosting a DNS cache would really increase security and privacy, because my cache would still need to source it's info from the usual sources in the usual way

2025-12-12 06:27:38 UTC

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Just shifts the trust though, doesn't it?
Everything from signed certificates to VPNs just shift the trust

2025-12-12 06:15:49 UTC

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I don't really trust it, though. It's another step towards the death of the internet as a tool by the people. Assuming that dream isn't already dead completely

2025-12-12 06:07:29 UTC

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Well, the biggest issue for the vast, vast majority of the internet is the URL. HTTPS does not fix DNS

2025-12-12 03:51:54 UTC

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Because it adds absolutely no security to the majority of the internet. Only stuff like banking websites, shopping carts, and secure chat apps benefit at all from going over HTTPS instead of plain HTTP

2025-12-12 02:03:50 UTC

Hear me out...
I've been thinking about it, and the S in HTTPS is completely 100% superfluous on the vast, _vast_ majority of websites

2025-11-29 07:01:17 UTC

I want snuggles :(

2025-11-27 01:46:34 UTC

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My main risk vector is from snooping family, with almost no risk what so ever from any kind of skilled attack. No encryption or strong passwords necessary. Having them not be able to look through my open windows, even just a tiny snippet, is my sole concern :P

2025-11-22 03:02:11 UTC

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Right, except for two things. First of all, I think for home users, switching windows to hide stuff from someone looking over your shoulder is probably one of the single most important things for privacy. And second of all, it speaks to _woefully_ unprotected video RAM, which I would argue is genuinely very bad for security.

2025-11-22 01:42:19 UTC

Listen,
Until computers stop showing my desktop, task bar, and whatever I had open, for a second before showing the screen lock whenever I wake them up, and stop showing snippets of other windows for a second when I switch windows,
I absolutely refuse to take cybersecurity seriously.
Because this is an absolute bare faced _joke_
I simply will not trust obscure hypothetical fixes to hypothetical scenarios I can't see, when stuff I can see and actually matters to me is _blatantly broken_

2025-11-17 01:03:20 UTC

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People keep telling me "Well, VPN providers have different regulations and stuff, so they're more trustworthy than ISPs" But I'll be honest, I kinda doubt that personally

2025-11-16 22:36:06 UTC

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vpns are honestly mostly "useful" if you don't want the immediate network to see the url. Otherwise, they really don't do much imo

2025-11-15 19:52:47 UTC

It's interesting seeing even Unix from the 90s, going to install software from retail CDs, "Missing dependencies"
Ahhh, the familiar pain

2025-11-10 01:56:35 UTC

I'm honestly getting really sick of the idea that everything in computing must be temporary and fleeting because "security"
I refuse to accept that I must accept crappy UI changes, the elimination of backwards compatibility, deprecation of hardware, and forcing all dev efforts to be perpetual or fade away, just because "oh, well, we just realized this attack is _technically_ possible, and we're gonna make that _your_ problem now"
I say _NO_ to temporary computing.

2025-11-08 06:15:41 UTC

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in this case, freeheroes2-pkg

2025-11-08 04:59:38 UTC

I'll be honest, trying to install anything on Linux _not_ from the package manager (Or even if it _is_ in the package manager, if it requires installing external components) is still an absolute _nightmare_

2025-11-03 03:08:40 UTC

Because we as a society have failed to make up our minds to _stopping_ changing the clocks twice a year, I've come up with a complete pro-con list to help make the right choice on this complex matter.
Changing the clocks twice a year:
Pros:
None.
Cons:
Literally death.

2025-10-13 17:24:28 UTC

Listen, hear me out...
I fundamentally don't trust GUIDs/UUIDs

2025-10-11 01:07:13 UTC

TFW you have ADHD so you can't focus until the last minute, but you've been so dazed and out of it that your internal clock is messed up so your ADHD doesn't realize that this _is_ the last minute 😭

2025-10-10 18:00:58 UTC

Hear me out...
Motherboards, even in laptops, should always have as many RAM slots as physically possible.
Because a few years down the line, used low capacity RAM sticks are pennies on the dollar, where as used high capacity RAM sticks cost their weight in gold.
It's an _intensely_ frustrating experience trying to double my RAM and having to pay at least four times as much.

2025-10-09 04:09:45 UTC

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I dunno, watching my own conduct today, I think I'm truly hopeless. I only ever seem to get worse.

2025-10-08 22:14:17 UTC

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I wasn't planning on staying emotionally healthy

2025-10-08 21:33:25 UTC

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well, yes, this is sort of my point. I don't want to hurt anyone, so I would rather not have anyone to hurt

2025-10-08 21:25:02 UTC

**Don't worry, I'm not gonna kill myself any time soon**
But, I really do want to kill myself. Like, as an aspirational goal. I _want_ to die, and _I_ want to be the one who kills me.
Maybe that's why I'm always sabotaging myself in everything else I want to do. Because having friends and having family and being known, all gets in the way of it. And I can't kill myself until all of that is gone.

2025-10-07 17:09:54 UTC

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Oh, my parents aren't religious.
And uhm, by the playground during recess, do you mean my yard? Yes, all the time.
Too be fair, they did try to set up playdates and stuff like that, and I have photo and video evidence of myself, at social events set up for me, having absolutely _none_ of it.

2025-10-07 17:02:23 UTC

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I was homeschooled and I absolutely hate leaving the house. I actually don't know :P

2025-10-07 16:52:50 UTC

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Why?

2025-10-07 16:43:27 UTC

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If they're not fun to be around, they're not perfect

2025-10-07 16:35:35 UTC

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Why not?

2025-10-07 16:29:00 UTC

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Yeah but I want to be a _perfect_ dad. I need to be unequivocally positive, or else there's no point.

2025-10-07 15:53:19 UTC

No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to let go of my dream of having a daughter.
Every time I think it through, it just doesn't work out. It's absolutely _not_ a good idea. I would be a _terrible_ dad.
I thought about it again recently, and at first I got my hopes up. But the more I thought about it, the more I realize all over again that it's just all wrong.
And it cut me up all over again.

2025-09-30 18:45:41 UTC

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Unfortunately for me, both sound editors and automatic volume control engineers are both so beyond incompetent it would be comical if it wasn't ruining media.

2025-09-29 17:57:33 UTC

Automatic volume control has always sounded like a great idea. Stop loud noises from blowing out your eardrums while keeping dialog audible. I never understood why everyone hates it.
Until I finally heard a common automatic volume control.
It still plays the loud noise just as loud, but then turns the volume of the following dialog down to inaudible levels.
...Right, I forgot, we're dealing with humans here. I don't know why I thought we could make something that actually works.

2025-09-27 19:59:15 UTC

I wrote a new short story for the first time in a long time. But reading it back, my god it's _deeply_ depressing.
What the _actual_ fuck is wrong with me

2025-09-25 02:20:39 UTC

I will continue spelling it "combonation" so long as people keep shortening it to "combo"
Unless it's an old VW, then it's obviously "Kombination"

2025-09-22 19:49:05 UTC

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Might as well throw some jpeg in there, too

2025-09-22 19:45:30 UTC

I should create a hybrid of gif and tiff called jif just so everyone _has_ to pronounce gif correctly

2025-09-21 02:24:46 UTC

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(Guess who's locked out of their homework again)

2025-09-21 02:23:54 UTC

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2025-09-21 02:23:24 UTC

I HATE 2FA SO FUCKING MUCH OH MY FUCKING GOD

2025-09-18 18:41:57 UTC

My phone just gave me a notification to "free up space by deleting unused apps"
Now, given I've tried to do this many times, but was always told "No" by my phone, I figured this is finally my chance, so I tapped the notification.
And do you want to know what apps it wanted me to delete?
ALL THE APPS I ACTUALLY USE.
It wanted to delete:
The calculator.
The sound db meter.
Firefox.
And both home security appliance management apps (the only reason I own this phone)
GOSH DAMMIT GOOGLE

2025-09-16 04:37:58 UTC

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Touche.
But it's highly confusing to my eyes.

2025-09-16 04:34:25 UTC

Listen, it can't just be me, this is _unreadable_
https://linuxrocks.online/system/media_attachments/files/115/212/096/778/449/890/original/a8c1ea2b25286a5e.png

2025-09-12 19:19:28 UTC

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There does seem to be this strange divide in the tech world, between people who want computers to be easy to use, but block people from truly understanding them, and people who want everyone to _have_ to truly understand them to be _able_ to use them.
Surely the valley is also fertile?

2025-08-25 19:19:38 UTC

It's crazy to see how much my opinions have changed since I was a child.
I hated touch screens. I even hated flat panel displays. I thought everything should be a CRT. I loved outdated computers and thought they were so much better. I was such a luddite.
These days, however, my opinions have changed completel- oh wait no, No, my opinions have changed shockingly little.

2025-08-25 16:44:47 UTC

I'm really glad I'm graduating college this fall. Because I've been at this _way_ to long and I'll be honest I'm beyond sick of it.

2025-08-22 03:35:38 UTC

I've been wondering to myself recently, how can I possibly prefer proprietary mobile OS's over Android? Old OS's like BB10 and PalmOS were proprietary. Android is open source. What's wrong with me?
Well, I've decided, first of all, it's totally reasonable to prefer them over iOS, which I absolutely do.
Second, it's a sign I prefer Linux over Windows because it actually _works_, not just because "woo, freedom! Libre! I'm morally superior"
(cont)

2025-08-17 21:04:37 UTC

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That's true.
And there seems to be a painfully small overlap between people who _want_ to adopt, and who feel like they _can_

2025-08-17 20:54:10 UTC

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my little sister is 100% convinced I'd be a fantastic adoptive father. But then she sees a lot of positive things in me that don't

2025-08-17 18:21:21 UTC

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I mean, I want an orphan. But then, I'm an insane weirdo who probably shouldn't be around children, so

2025-08-17 17:05:52 UTC

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Admittedly yes, the idea that children would be traumatized by by boobs is beyond absurd. And if you've ever given a child a camera, you'll quickly realize all they see a lot of butts at their height :P
I still insist though that I've never seen _any_ link between sex drive and care. More the opposite, if anything.

2025-08-17 03:02:06 UTC

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Because everyone seems to have their posts set to autodelete so post I bookmark dissapears after like a week :P

2025-08-17 01:22:45 UTC

The fact that children are made through a process that isn't child friendly is honestly really gross and kinda sad.
What's _really_ sad is that a desire to have sex and a desire to care for children _are not linked what so ever_ so the people most likely to have children are honestly kinda the people who most shouldn't. Lest the first sentence rear it's ugly head.
This is sure one disturbing planet we've got here.