Same here. I had been sticking to Ubuntu flavours for over 15 years.

I started 28 years ago with Slackware 3.0, then Gentoo, Ubuntu, took a detour via OS X, then back to Ubuntu, now Arch.

Slackware in 1997.

I ran it on a 486SX/40 with 32MB of RAM and a 2GB harddrive.

It turned me into the man I am today.

Only if you want a visit from the thought police.

My first experience was with two floppy images I found on “So much shareware! Vol.2”.

It was labeled Linux 0.99b, no distro. It was not of much use to me at the time.

A couple of years later I got my hands on Slackware 2.0 on CD. So much time spent compiling your own kernel, because no modules and the whole thing had to fit in main memory (640kB). So much time spent fiddling with xf86config hoping you wouldn’t fry your CRT.

Good times.

Then came gentoo, which had package management. No more did you have to browse sourceforge for endless dependencies to install something. No more did you have to re-install slackware on your root partition to update. So user-friendly in comparison.

We spent a lot of time on IRC.

MUDs kind of bridged the gap between IRC and games.

I remember spending a lot of time playing abuse, snes9x, quake + team fortress and quake2 + action quake.

Apparently it just affects certain batteries. Those affected can go boom.

I would not go back to the previous version.

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I have a storagebox at hetzner. My script does:

• Mount the storagebox over sshfs with public key file
• Mount a gocryptfs folder, with supplied key on local file
• Rsync my stuff to the encrypted folder
• Unmounts in reverse order

I can access the storagebox by password, too. So this is my disaster recovery in case my house burns down with all my devices. I’ll just buy another laptop the next day, and me and the Mrs can admire all my code and our wedding videos within a few hours.

My day-to-day stuff stays in sync via syncthing on my two laptops, my desktop and my home server. They all run btrfs, so I won’t be syncing any flipped bits around.

Home server rsyncs from my VPS once a week. When that’s fine, it rsyncs itself over to a hetzner storage over sshfs+gocryptfs.

Four copies at home, one in the cloud.

At that price even ChromeOS would be a better option. You still have all your android apps, plus that little Linux container for most lf your other computing needs.

“Let’s wait and C”.

I’ve tried libreelec on a raspberry pi 4, but it just doesn’t pass the wife test.

We have a thomson streaming stick 140G (EU branding for ONN). We just use jellyfin, smarttube and our national public service streaming apps. It’s in apps-only mode, but Google still injects one ad on the home screen. I didn’t bother with a custom launcher just yet.

My wife avoids updating her devices for as long as possible, because “updates only break things”. I think I’ll keep this news to myself, because otherwise I’ll never hear the end of it.

I finally nudged her from a pixel 4a to an 8a for Christmas, so it is on its way to the retirement drawer.

They are offering a free battery swap if you are affected. Or $50. Or $100 off a new phone.

Sounds like they’re picking the cheap route out of a full recall on a pretty old phone.

“USB-adapter” in this context used to be quite a shitshow.

I’ve seen at least the bastardisations of the USB-c spec where manufacturers just repurpose a couple of pins for analog audio. One for samsung, one for Xiaomi etc.

I hope most have gone over to being proper USB soundcards with a DAC today.

Maybe I can submit a proposal for risc-VI 🤣

No need! You can make your own custom extension! If the silicon doesn’t support it, then you can provide firmware to emulate it.

I’m no connoisseur, but I just want the same feel as I had back in the 90s. No terminal emulator, straight up tty with crisp VGA ROM fonts at some hacky SuperVGA resolution. Before the virtual framebuffer that basically every computer today uses for tty.

Konsole, gnome-terminal and ghostty can all be made to feel right to me. I’m giving ghostty a spin, and I like how it supports custom shaders so I can make it feel even more like home.

Sweet! Tempo is the best subsonic client I’ve found for Android. Hoping to use it for a long time.

It’s a protocol for hosting music libraries.

Think of it like your personal Spotify backend.

I’m running navidrome to serve music to tempo on my devices.

Sure, it performed “fine”.

But it was sluggish compared to the VGA ttys we were used to.

Now, if we can have something as snappy and at the same time as pretty as Eterm… 👌