Same for old Dell, the $2000 laptop can be grabbed at $300 after 3 years, this is really cool. I installed Linux on mine too of course.

Same in Canada, especially since covid, a couple of restaurant chain are offering their food in the frozen aisle of supermarket

I like awk, I started using it in the 90s in university, I’m not a pro, but this is so powerful!

congrats :)

I got it maybe 2 months ago, then got it another time last week!

Well, obviously on the net everyone will tell you to don’t do it yourself… personally I do change all my outlets, switches, chandeliers, thermostats, etc myself. I moved outlets too, extending them you need an accessible junction box, right wires gauge, romex 12/2, blabla, etc. shorting wires? well, disconnect the wires, move the outlet at the correct place, cut the wires and reput them (with the whatever way it is done in your country).

Having a EE degree and an electrician BIL you should be able to handle this. Best way, ask him to come and let him guide you on the howto.

yup, I did the “linux running metal” and using the same partition with a VM in Windows and it worked fine. It was years ago, certainly Ubuntu or MX Linux. IIRC the linux partition cannot be on the same drive than the linux partition, it needs to be a different drive.

Amazon benefit is 20 billions for 3 months can you imagine? every second, basically, bezos earn $2572, every fucking second, ding in his pocket. 9 millions$ per hour.

What happened in 2005?

Same my friend, same… I’m on FB since 2008 or so as all my families and friends. For years now everyone gave up on it (I mean nobody is posting their vacation or food plate anymore) and the feed is mainly sponsored ads and far right stuff (In Canada there is no official news, only alternatives news).

But everyone are still using Messenger to talk, we have groups etc, and damn Marketplace is the thing here in Montreal, everyone is using it and it’s incredible to buy/sell, you need it or you will never buy/sell anything used.

I’m in the same boat, I want to ditch Meta, but Messenger/Marketplace has no alternatives.

Unfortunately, also, all the good old forums died off and people are using FB groups now, but it’s not as good

Like people already wrote, FB is not used anymore to share your vacation and see your friends food plates. Me and about everybody around me are using FB for Marketplace (big here, about the only platform used to buy/sell), and for all kind of groups, being for hobbies like RC cars, Astronomy, Funko Pop, RVing, Painting, Costco, whatever, etc.

I have not posted a pic or a thought on FB for years, nor really read something from my hundred friends there in my FB feed, but I go there about everyday to browse my groups.

It’s not as good as old forums about your car brand/model etc, but it is happening there now.

If you want to replace FB for friends/family/picture/events, no clue, maybe IG lol

it was mostly flame wars, alt.bin.pictures.erotica, warez, discussion about The Simpson, and of course The Oracle, and Kibo.

EDIT for young people, the usenet oracle and kibology

Linux is C only, ever read the rant by Linus last century about C++ ? I was there, in usenet

Yup, it was the good old time, on a 486

I do, first install using floppies, kernel v0.99, and more floppies for X

There’s multiple DMC on Facebook already, one more group to follow!

Install MX Linux (not the AHS version) it is Debian based and pretty nice

Steve Jobs never showered, even when he started to work at Atari, he was moved to night shift because all his colleagues said he stank badly. He said that his body cannot have foul odours because he was eating only fruits, or something like that. This is why he died BTW, he thought that he could cure his cancer by eating some stuff and not the other.

Reek does not stop cult people.

autoconf and stuff like this? Not anymore. Since ~5 years here it’s cmake everywhere, Conan, ninja.

I have tested multiple distro, in the beginning was mostly hack of multiple things and almost LFS, downloading floppies images from usenet… I then started to use Debian early 00, then used Ubuntu for years, but I don’t like snap/flatpak and lots of changes Ubuntu made so I switched to Mint Cinnamon, but hated it, often broken, glitches, etc, so I switched to MX because it is Debian based, always up to date (like latest FF and latest Xserver with last night CVE fix etc and always native .deb, no snap/flat). I also always loved minimal DE so Xfce is perfect and light. Also I mainly develop in Linux, no games.