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The mid 1990s for me, OpenBSD came out in 1996 and Solaris was Solaris was like 1992. I was admining a Solaris SPARC station back around 1997 that had a gnarly install if I remember correctly. It was on 3.5” floppies and I still have that SPARC station and the original Solaris OS sitting in the basement collecting dust. At one point that SPARC was being used by some of us working with the PHP group to diagnose file system limits on Solaris and build PHP binaries back when I was involved in PHP development. Fun times.
My first Linux install was like Red Hat 5.2 or something and it was much nicer.
Back in the day when installing Solaris and OpenBSD and such you had to specify in numerical values the number of sectors of hard disk space you wanted to format drives with. Shit is considerably easier now with modern UNIXy systems.
He doesn’t care. He thinks those people are losers. He has no concept of what war means for the people fighting in it, it’s just an abstraction, it’s just a word that can be pulled out when conversations need to be redirected or attentions refocused. It means nothing.
darkpandato Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•People who live in touristic areas, what are the rudest behaviours you've seen among tourists?14·12 days agoI watched a tourist drink a few beer at the local inn and then just throw the cans onto the lawn and keep drinking. So basically littering. That stuck in my craw. This is my town buddy, take the 5 seconds it takes to dispose of your shitty cans of your shitty mass produced beer that you usually have back home that you made sure to let everyone is far better than the local microbrew we have here in town.
Also one time we had some tourists loudly complaining about immigrants while visiting. Those aren’t immigrants you dope, they’re citizens of our country. They were born here.
On one occasion I was driving somewhere and it was along a scenic drive and I had to stop for something. A group of aging old men on motorcycles who were doing the scenic drive told me I couldn’t park in that area because it was theirs. I said get fucked, you’re in my backyard, I’ll park wherever the fuck I want. I think they thought they were intimidating because they fancied themselves a biker gang, but biker gangs usually don’t have New Balance and rental bikes as part of their aesthetic.
darkpandato RetroGaming@lemmy.world•The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis.English8·12 days agoWhy would you say this
darkpandato Canada•Mike Myers Opens Up About His ‘SNL’ Protest In Support Of Canada: “Came From My Heart, And It Was Not About Me”5·18 days agoMyers has said the character is based on his experiences growing up in and around Toronto and started developing the character long before bringing it to SNL.
As for which Aurora, from the first movie:
My name is Wayne Campbell. I live in Aurora, Illinois, which is a suburb of Chicago. Excellent! … Okay, I still live with my parents, which I admit is both bogus and sad, but at least I’ve got an amazing cable access show, and I still know how to party.
darkpandato Canada•Mike Myers Opens Up About His ‘SNL’ Protest In Support Of Canada: “Came From My Heart, And It Was Not About Me”22·18 days agoAlong with Mike Myers, we need Wayne Campbell back. Myers has said many times that Wayne was Canadian in character although the lore had to say he was from Aurora, Illinois because he needed to be American to get into SNL. Make up a new storyline that he was born in Canada to Canadian parents who moved to the states when he was young or something.
Speaking of which, we need the MacKenzie brothers back too. Bring back Great White North. Coo-ooo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-cooooo…. Coo-ooo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coooooooooo….
darkpandato Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes@lemmy.zip•[DS] The Most Tragic Boss In ANY FromSoft Game And The Power Of Loss (3h video essay)51·1 month agoThis ignores pages upon pages of lore in item descriptions, though, which goes something like, “Sweet Grass — an herb from a distant land, cultivated by the dark monks of Seringrad, and used for healing rituals. The exiled senator Myrmidon of the Kingdom of Loss is believed to have poisoned his fellow senator and former lover Zanzibart following a legislative dispute during the Anecdotes using spoiled Sweet Grass, which produces a highly toxic sludge when rotting. Restores 10% health upon use.”
This is what’s great about FS games as far as I’m concerned — for those that want to read into the lore, it’s there to go through, but for those who just want to bonk, they can just bonk, and aren’t tied down to 30 minute cinematics that lay it all out for them. It’s like an inverted Kojima game, it’s all tell-don’t-show-but-maybe-ok-show-just-a-little-bit and does a 1 minute cinematic and leaves the rest as an exercise to the player to sort out. If they want to sort it out, they can, and if not, they can just continue to bonk and maybe later on put on some YouTuber’s three hour long explanation about the game they just finished and have it play in the background while they barbecue. And yeah, sure a bunch of t might be vague and contradictory, but goddamn it, it gets people talking more than the 30 minute exposition-heavy cinematic ever could.
darkpandato Programming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years19·1 month agoIf Mercurial were as popular as Git I would presume that it would be rewritten in C or Rust, but who can say.
darkpandato Programming@programming.dev•Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days - and never imagined it would last 20 years20·1 month agoAlso Subsurface, a scuba diving log program, but that one is not quite as well known.
darkpandato Canada•Canadian superhero Captain Canuck is having a comeback, and we have Trump to thank2·1 month agoAlpha Flight checking in.
Also Wolverine.
And technically Superman was co-created by a Canadian. Metropolis was originally inspired by Toronto, as that’s where Joe Shuster grew up. But we all know this thanks to a Heritage Moment, just like we know about brain surgery and responsible government.
Dev: “Boss, we need additional storage on the database cluster to handle the latest clients we signed up.”
Boss: “First see if AI can do it.”
darkpandato Soulslike - Discussion, News, Memes@lemmy.zip•[FS] Who added game to my swamp?3·1 month agoIt also had an area which they mined… poison, somehow. They mined it like it was coal, just pickaxing it right out the ground while their workers caught the green lung.
Storm Thurman? Zero likes on his TikTok. That’s the real stat.
darkpandato Technology@lemmy.world•DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseEnglish3·2 months agoGrok has said disparaging things about Elon Musk so I’m assuming it’s going to be disappeared to El Salvador soon.
darkpandato Technology@lemmy.world•DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseEnglish7·2 months agoGitHub Copilot about to be clocking some overtime on COBOL conversions.
darkpandato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Atlantic journalist says Trump officials included him in war plans group chatEnglish6·2 months agolkml
He meant to say the Democratic People’s Republic of Barbieland. Common mistake.