@sjvn So was Linux secretly invented by the Romans?

@sjvn still easier than Slackware on floppies

@sjvn Root commands only on the bottom two terminals?

@sjvn You think it's going to work smoothly every time but you end up summoning a daemon instead...

@sjvn i have questions

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Yea, because Arch neckbeards would definitely think this is normal.

@sjvn @briankrebs of course this configuration often has keystoning problems

@sjvn i remember this. this was the way you had to do it before the wiki. place your system under the arch and cast a series of arcane spells. tbh its only marginally different now tho

@sjvn Stop. Staaahp.

@sjvn "used to"?

@sjvn yes.

@sjvn

@sjvn @briankrebs Yes.

@sjvn Funny guy!

Do you know about Alt Text?     We use Alt Text, so the vision impaired can enjoy images and memes we toot.  When you upload an image of any kind before you toot it, click on it, and you can add Alt Text or a Caption.  It can be very simple like "painting of a tree in a garden" or you can go all out and talk about colours and foreground etc.  Anything to include the vision impaired in the fun!  

@sjvn with only half the stargate exposed, how do you activate all seven chevrons?

@sjvn I would not, but thank you for asking.

@sjvn now the old energy star logo makes sense

@sjvn Is that a Stargate? 😅

@sjvn No.

@sjvn You can't see it in this photo, but a mirrored configuration is duck-taped to the ceiling on the next floor down. The summoning circle is then drawn orthogonally to the first circle, on the floor, before the ritual begins.

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Imagine the Gentoo users having to built all those computers first.

@sjvn

It didn't do much back then

@sjvn You just need a couple more monitors #chevrons to activate the Stargate.

@sjvn Yes but it was rough until keystone display kernel mods were released

@sjvn
This terrifies me.
@briankrebs

@sjvn@mastodon.social Yes. Probably because this is kind of thing that I used to get up to while waiting for that god-damned slow process. 😐.

@sjvn 😂😂😂

@sjvn @catsalad
Monitor keystone effect

@sjvn No, I would not. Nice arch though. 😉

@sjvn used to? ;)

@sjvn This terrifies and amazes me, lol.

@sjvn I see what you did there!

@sjvn
That's the type of thing Arch Linux was discovered in right?

@sjvn Must be Gateway pc's

@sjvn Oh, I never realized `cat` is short for "catenary".

@sjvn I want to see someone sitting on top ... Giggles

It shouldn't collapse ... Fingers crossed

Hugz & xXx

@sjvn
Os etruscos iniciaram a contrução de arcos, mas não é bem este caso.

@sjvn Well, it's certainly easier than getting a whole community together to install a 'buntu distro

@sjvn now I know where the people from #Eidos #Montreal got their inspiration from.

#DeusEx #HumanRevolution #DXHR

@sjvn in the olden days you needed that many monitors to display enough wiki pages to stand any chance of the rig booting when you were done, checks out

@sjvn this looks like a roentgen-portal 😄

@sjvn could you add an image description please?

@sjvn wait until you see how we did the Debian swirl...

@sjvn
That was real keystone technology.
@Nike_Leonhard

@sjvn So _this_ is what the keystone correction control is for...

@sjvn i miss the old loadlin days!

@sjvn

This is how you access the Stargate network.

@sjvn it‘s so beautiful

@sjvn don't you use this method anymore?

@sjvn No wonder I used to hear it was harder to install than Ubuntu!

@sjvn nice monarch!

@sjvn But of course with plasma!

@sjvn It was verry hard .... At thé end, broken

@sjvn my back still hurts!

@sjvn No, not at all.

I would sooner believe you used a typewriter

dear blind viewers: there's 12 CRT monitors arranged in a self-supporting arch on a carpet floor. It's a visual pun.

@sjvn ugh. YES! I remember having to sort through the monitor bins, searching for the keystone CRT with just the right shape. Honestly, these youngbloods got no notion how easy they’ve got it nowadays.

@sjvn ah but is it Gothic or Roman arch Linux?

@sjvn Without a doubt.

@sjvn Bildbeschreibung: Alte dicke Monitore zu einem Bogen gestapelt

@sjvn is this a boss from armored core 6?

@sjvn @TPushic step 1 used to be to mine your own silicon, which is how I presume one acquires Silicon

@sjvn did you have to crouch through the portal when it comes up

@sjvn That’s actually a picture of the first prototype MRI machine. To assemble the scan you had to take a Polaroid of each monitor’s screen and then shuffle them all around on a table.

@sjvn How are you going to dismantle that without the thing collapsing? 😱

@sjvn That's a classic photo.

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@sjvn I'm dumb enough so why not?

@sjvn

@sjvn I see why it isnt very stable...

@sjvn I will believe this is how Arch used to be installed if you show me that there are dickhead experts off-camera who refuse any assistance and actively berate anyone who asks questions about the installation process.

@sjvn truly an engineering marvel how ancient civilizations unlocked the superior strength that the humble arch provided for supporting their software infrastructure.

@sjvn A proper screening.