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Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano 18 years ago I decided that Apple had gone too far with TPM and replaced it with Gentoo GNU Linux.

I fell back once — after a month, because of audio-problems. But January 2006 my CD writer broke and the seller said that’s not a product problem (more than 1 year old). Instead of buying a new one, I spent twice that and my flatmate helped me build my own computer. And iMac got Linux again.

It would take until 2008 with KDE 4 that I felt at home.
There’s a blog: basis.draketo.de/wordpress/

4 Sep 2023 at 19:24 | Wall-to-wall | Open on rollenspiel.social
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Stefano Marinelli
Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano don’t get fooled by the "wordpress" in the URL: this is a static copy, because I didn’t want to keep wordpress updated with security updates (that’s some serious upkeep otherwise). Also broken encoding …

4 Sep 2023 at 19:27 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Stefano Marinelli

@ArneBab It's perfectly readable. I'm going to read (a translation, of course) it when at bed. I love those vintage blog posts, my blog started in 2006 so I have some of them, too (this became quite famous in those years, but it's in Italian: dragas.net/posts/gli-informati)

4 Sep 2023 at 19:29 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano wow, nice ☺

You can also look at my even older website … (I set myself a policy not to break my links, so I preserve all the old versions I can) → draketo.de/index1.html (this goes back to around 2003, if I can trust the news on it)

I actually had a starting banner page for the battles of those days back then: draketo.de/indexalt.html

Totally outdated battles against software patents, DRM, and wars of aggression …

… written in an editor that provided realtime online collaboration …

@stefano wow, nice ☺

You can also look at my even older website … (I set myself a policy not to break my links, so I preserve all the old versions I can) → draketo.de/index1.html (this goes back to around 2003, if I can trust the news on it)

I actually had a starting banner page for the battles of those days back then: draketo.de/indexalt.html

4 Sep 2023 at 19:52 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Stefano Marinelli

@ArneBab thank you for the link, I'll surely read it!

4 Sep 2023 at 20:12 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano the top comic in your blog is fun — got me a happy laugh ☺

(but we don’t speak gibberish at all! All I say is perfectly understandable … last week a colleague who mostly works with customers said “OK, that was too much alien language right now”. I said something about spring with pebble templates and maybe flexbox or so, all totally understandable words … 😬 )

4 Sep 2023 at 19:54 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano reading it after google translate is also super fun, because it almost consistently translates windows with fenster (window) ☺

4 Sep 2023 at 20:03 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano Now read through that and I have to say I only ever gave Windows support to my wife’s family. Though for one tool I actually said “let’s get an external disk that runs Linux”. Which was Ubuntu and promptly installed itself on the main drive instead of the external disk (3 weeks of panic followed until I had recovered most of the data). I only installed Gentoo since then, because there I type everything that happens …

4 Sep 2023 at 20:11 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano … and now she has Linux on an external drive, with KDE and an on-desktop tutorial what to click to do what she wants.

Which is actually pretty cool: with KDE plasma you can build appliances where people have instructions in sticky notes and icons they can click to run exactly what they need, and on-desktop folder-views so they can see the effects without ever having to worry about what lies where.

4 Sep 2023 at 20:12 | Open on rollenspiel.social
Stefano Marinelli

@ArneBab similar for me. My parents' PC runs FreeBSD and they're happy with it. My father in law can't abandon Windows, and it's the only Windows client I have to deal with. Fortunately, it's stable enough

4 Sep 2023 at 20:17 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
Stefano Marinelli

@ArneBab PS: I've been using KDE for many, many years. Now I'm also using xfce and mate but KDE has been my favourite and only DE for many years, when on Linux and FreeBSD

4 Sep 2023 at 19:27 | Open on mastodon.bsd.cafe
Arne Babenhauserheide

@stefano KDE is still my favorite DE, but it makes problems with my xmodmap (M-x doesn’t work — that’s a killer with Emacs … it started with their switch to libxcb but no one managed to track down the problem in the past years) so I’m in LXDE at the moment — and for work I actually use exwm now.

4 Sep 2023 at 19:28 | Open on rollenspiel.social
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