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

I live in a 50 year old house. All the breakers are 16A, so 220V x 16A = 3.5kW

The electric sauna does three-phase @ 400V. My energy tracker usually peaks around 9.5kW when it’s heating.

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

You use the same computer every day? Now that’s unhygienic.

I thought we solved this for good in the 80s?

I guess that particular question didn’t age so well.

We run Linux on them because they’re cheap and disposable.

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.

It was the bees knees a few years back. It feels like they’ve lost momentum.

Today, I’d imagine safetynet puts a lot of road bumps in running apps with DRM like Spotify and Netflix. Also banking apps and apps for bus tickets and such.

Apple had this undocumented function for screenshotting back on iOS 3.1, and kind of let you use it while waiting for better frameworks in iOS 4.0

At some point they started rejecting your app automatically if they found the symbol for that function in your app. I didn’t want to leave my 3.1 users in the dust for no reason, so I did the same trick to obfuscate the symbol name before dynamically linking it in.

It worked right up until they stopped supporting iOS 3.1 completely.

Even I can sell $350B worth of energy if I increase the price enough.

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

I would not go back to the previous version.

I haven’t done it on Android, but you get to do remote debugging through Safari on a Mac when you plug in a developer-enabled iPhone.

I’d expect Chrome and Firefox to do the same on Android in sone manner.

I’ve tried some of scopely’s games. They’re following this playbook to the letter.

You’ll be getting freebies when your friends spend cash. You’ll get time limited offers. You’ll be paying to “try again”, against other players.

Who wins when a wall street broker and an oil sheikh use their wallets to fight over a Pokémon gym? Scopely wins.

Finland had to accept responsibility for being invaded by Russia. Also, they had to give away land mass that Russia failed to grab. Also, they had to give up some sovereignty. Also, they had to pay ginormous reparations and sign deals to buy army stuff from Russia.

Nice army stuff, though. I’ve been in a 1995 KRAZ with a wood frame for the driver. Also they don’t have a tap for draining motor oil, because who would expect them yo return from the frontlines?

I’ve visited the US a couple of times for work.

I’ve been very careful with my wording when they’ve asked if I’m there to work.

Yes, I’m there for work. I’m employed in the EU, and I’m just there representing my employer at a fair or technical meeting. I’ll be gone in a few days.

My colleague didn’t have the same way with his words, but back then they’d just put you on the next plane back.

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.

Get your own domain. Don’t host your own.

I’ve had the same domain on gmail, proton and now purelymail.

So they need more boots on the ground? I have boots.