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theodric

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meh vivant. alfalfa male. hack(er?). oldcomputerist. lord of the files. cellist. languager. storyfeller. wanderer. the vulnerable Bede.

🔸All posts are 100% serious
🔸Opinions expressed are correct
🔸Retoot = endorsement

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How to geoblock the UK https://howto.geoblockthe.uk/

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Not a teapot!

paardekooper.ie I'm a teapot This server is a teapot, not a coffee machine
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I've seen CEOs getting way too much hate on here lately. CEOs regularly go the extra mile so we know a company is in good hands. Take Meta, for example. Mark Zuckerberg holds quarterly meetings to convince investors that he's not a virgin. That's the kind of leadership that earns you the big bucks.

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@lowqualityfacts this may be your lowest-quality fact ever. Kudos

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The O2, an entry level Unix workstation, was introduced in the mid 90s and came with a single MIPS CPU. Here, we see some baby Octanes, haha! It officially ran on IRIX UNix OS but also supported the Linux and BSD families of operating systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2

A picture of cracking open the O2 to install the 1600SW Flat Panel Monitor Adapter
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@nixCraft supported, but not in any marginally useful way

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Found this on Imgur pic of IRIS Indigo, a line of workstations developed and manufactured by SGI, was first announced in July 1991. It ran IRIX Unix and was well known for various apps in the 90s such as those used in 3D Graphics and Animation, and other industries. There was a time when workstation/desktop OSes spied zero on you, and you were in total control of your data, unlike Microsoft, which dominates this space these days.

A picture of an IRIS Indigo workstation from the '90s, showing the desktop with a terminal and other windows open on the monitor
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@nixCraft huh, I have that monitor! I should pick up an Indigo to go with it.

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    @NanoRaptor yeah, crazy. anyway, I'm heading to the Rijksmuseum to look at some more slop. this Rembrandt dude had killer models. total prompt GOAT.

    Illegitimi non carborundum!

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    Idea: put an igniter inside your vacuum cleaner so it explodes whenever you suck up too much dust

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    Can I make a mutual aid request for a Mitutoyo Crysta Apex 776 coordinate measurement machine?

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    FreeCAD is what you'd build if your intent was to design a CAD package specifically to frustrate and infuriate Inventor/SolidWorks users.

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    @NanoRaptor yeah but not the cool part

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    So on all my browsers I use https://tenbluelinks.org to ban the Google "AI" pollution from my Google searches.

    I'm now trying to switch to Firefox on my Android tablet. It turns out tenbluelinks does not work with Android Firefox (although it does with Android Chrome).

    So I go to look for an addon. It turns out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/udm14/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search that although Firefox for Android supports addons, on Android an addon cannot add a search engine.

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    @mcc thanks for making me aware of udm=14. I've just added the functionality to append that parameter to my Firefox extension, and also opened the extension up to Firefox for Android. I apologise for the trash UX on mobile, but it works! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/google-search-arguments/

    Screenshot of URL copy-pasted from a search performed with the extension active on Android, demonstrating that the extension has successfully appended the udm=14 parameter to the URL

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    That makes sense.

    Banks only employ workers with a net worth over $1,000,000 to ensure they won't be tempted to participate in a heist.
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    @lowqualityfacts you're not entirely as wrong as you're trying to be...

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    I can't wait.

    May 24th is "National Wear Buckets Instead of Shoes Day"
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    @lowqualityfacts pls remind on the day thx

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    I'm gonna start calling Bluesky 'Wayland' since it's supposed to replace X but it's missing half the features and kinda sucks and most of the people who advocate for it do so for political-emotional rather than technical reasons

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    Coolest video I've seen today: an electronic scanner-paint plotter from 1970!

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