Gregory's Server@ArneBab Vintage blog posts, I love them!
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 @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: https://www.dragas.net/posts/gli-informatici-gli-informatici-e-quelli-che-ci-capiscono-parte-1-lutente-medio/)  @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 … 😬 ) @stefano reading it after google translate is also super fun, because it almost consistently translates windows with fenster (window) ☺ @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 … @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. @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 @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 @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. |
@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 …