When you get this to work, hit me up for some venture capital.
Gibberish? That’s poetry. I sang it to Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’
I used a Mac SE/30 running OS 7 quite a bit in the early 90’s. I remember it being incredibly reliable; in fact, I can’t even remember what a crash looked like on a Mac, whereas I can still picture the BSOD from Windows 3.1.
I don’t remember noticing much difference in snappiness or intuitiveness between Mac and Windows back then though. Both were pretty easy to learn, even for people with limited computer experience. Anything with a hard drive felt snappy at the time, because the previous generation of computers all ran on floppy disks which were slow as molasses.
I enjoy fixing things, even other people’s shit, so I categorize that time as entertainment instead of work. It’s time I’d otherwise be using to doomscroll on Lemmy.
It’s a series of tubes, actually. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Series_of_tubes
I always pronounce it “fezzik” like Andre the Giant’s character from The Princess Bride.
LFS (Linux from Scratch)
Primal Fear (1996). It’s arguable whether or not the antagonist is truly evil though.
Get a load of this guy - he’s got ladies just coming up and talking to him.
My current and all-time favorite laptop is an older MacBook Air (Intel) running Arch Linux. The quality of Apple hardware combined with Linux is unbeatable. I can’t wait until we get a reliable Linux distro that runs on Apple silicon.
This is the trust-fall of Poe’s law.
Some projects achieve total perfection and require no more support. No, I can’t name any.
Zalgo is Tony the Pony.
I always assumed everything else is a middle stop on the way to LFS, though I might prove myself wrong someday.
First install was Ubuntu 9.04 on a very basic and mainstream Dell desktop at the time. Most recent was Arch on a 2013 MacBook Air. Honestly, the only thing that made this complicated was that the bootloader was so out of date that it didn’t recognize the newer NVME drive I put in it. After installing Arch, I messed around for a while getting the Fn/shortcut keys set up perfectly. I would not have even thought of doing that back in 2009.
Can confirm. Easiest install was my first one. Hardest install was my most recent one.
I’m actually disappointed when I boot up and nothing is broken or needs maintenance.
Upvoted for being factual and logical, and also for the use of twain.