DeadTOm :devuan: / is on Nostr

Gen-X.
He/Him.
Linux and open source advocate.
Minecraft cultist.
Retriever of stuff from the top shelf.
Sometimes I take pictures.
I swear a lot.
IT Director at a public library.

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2024-01-24 20:28:28

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@npub1sua…szrk #MyFirstDistro was FreeBSD, circa 1996. Not a Linux distro, but *nix. I bought it off the shelf at Staples. I tinkered with it for a few months, and then moved to Suse Linux. Distro hopped for a while before settling on Debian around 2012.

2024-01-17 18:23:26

How to update an Apple Watch:
Step one: Throw it in the trash.
Step two: Buy a Casio.
#CasioCult

2023-12-29 17:47:07

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Try turning off your devices for a while. Disable notifications on your smart watch, or better yet, get rid of your smart watch.
Power through that initial need to chat, to scroll, to distract your mind, and then see what starts to happen.
/Grumpy Old Gen-xer Observation
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#GenX #MobilePhones #CellPhones #Internet

2023-12-29 17:46:49

Grumpy Old Gen-xer Observation\
Those of us that remember life before mobile phones, can remember long periods of our day where we were completely incommunicado, disconnected from everyone.
The drive to and from work/school, sitting alone in my room, pretty much any outdoor activity. That time let our minds wander. It let us think, contemplate whatever, forced us to spend time exercising our imaginations.
Everyone today is terrified of being alone in their head.
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2023-12-22 23:06:54

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@npub1h7y…py5p Wait, 2020? I thought this was still 2016.

2023-10-27 18:40:58

Not a lot of snow, but it got cold really fast this week. 70F one day, 10F the next.
I'm not sure how I feel about this.
#Selfie #Winter #Snow
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2023-10-11 18:08:01

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@npub1thl…mhaw I will certainly add it to the hobbies list. No promises. :)

2023-10-11 17:59:51

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@npub1thl…mhaw Exactly. I'm sure there are some fun icon sets out there. Make them large and easy to read. I know there are applications like Scratch for teaching young kids to code, and video games that teach you to type. You could use OpenDNS Family Shield DNS servers to get some protection from inappropriate sites...
There is a lot that could be done with this. Although, maybe it's already been done.

2023-10-11 17:52:29

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@npub1thl…mhaw Now you've got me thinking about this. At the very least, a tutorial on how to take something like Ubuntu, and make it child friendly. I'm sure it could be done.

2023-10-11 17:51:17

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@npub1thl…mhaw I don't know that there is such a thing, but I think there certainly needs to be.

2023-06-17 21:45:49

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@npub1kja…e5gq It is a tough situation, at best. Yeah, we're heavily dependent on plastics, but we're also literally killing ourselves with them. Sooner or later, we're not going to have a choice. Environmentally friendly plastics are being developed, but adoption will take time if and when viable alternatives become feasible. In the meantime, I agree, single use plastics, except for medical and military applications, should be banned. Period.

2023-05-17 21:33:50

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@npub1kja…e5gq Therein lies the rub of democracy. True solutions are usually slow moving, and rarely easy to explain. People want simple, easy to understand solutions, and pointing at a demographic, and saying "IT'S THEIR FAULT! LET'S GET EM!" not only provides that quick, easy to understand solution, but it appeals to peoples' emotion and self-righteousness.
Authoritarians figured this out millennia ago, and have been capitalizing on it ever since.

2023-04-24 03:14:51

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#[0] I fell from the top of one of those iron bar jungle gyms. I hit a few bars on the way down, broke a wrist and suffered a concussion.
Another kid my age, at the same playground, got a splinter the length of an adult finger, in his scrotum, sliding down one of those teeter totters.
We were both back out on that same playground afterward, and no one thought anything of it.
Being a kid in the 80s was a whole other experience.