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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:05:08 JST 翠星石
   >There is a pause key on the keyboard.
   >Nothing uses it.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:13:41 JST 翠星石

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     • EdBoatConnoisseur
     @EdBoatConnoisseur Yes.
     
     Generally it looks like;
     Pause
     ———
     Break
     
     as by default it's Pause, while C-Pause enters Break.
     
     Maybe C-Pause would be best mapped to ultrakill for a higher kill level than C-c.
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     EdBoatConnoisseur (edboatconnoisseur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:13:42 JST EdBoatConnoisseur

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     @Suiseiseki which "pause" key are ya reffering to? this one?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:17:22 JST 翠星石

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     • Zergling_man
     @Zergling_man Some old games bind pause to pause, but Esc is a more popular pause key.
     
     Pause can be bound to pause in stk, but it can't be used to toggle out of pause like esc can.
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     Zergling_man (zergling_man@sacred.harpy.faith)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:17:23 JST Zergling_man

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     @Suiseiseki That's a good point, I should bind a bunch of shit to it.
     Although I have a feeling some old games did.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:30:07 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt I don't need useless BIOS text output - the GNU GRUB OS starts every time.
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:30:08 JST Phantasm

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     @Suiseiseki Your GNU/Booted system doesn't allow pausing BIOS text output with it? Sucks to you. You should use a real BIOS like real men do.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:34:20 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com My keyboard doesn't have bloat keys.

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:40:41 JST Phantasm

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     @Suiseiseki GRUB is bloat, you should use syslinux.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:40:41 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt >Bloat.
     >Look inside.
     >The "syslinux" bootloader is larger than GRUB despite offering less features and having sad limitations on what partitions can be read.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:51:49 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt "LILO" makes it difficult to check the size, but it seems it's larger than both despite not even offering a menu.
     
     >a pseudo-graphical menu selection
     GRUB offers a full graphical menu selection.
     
     GRUB1 even offered the ability to play animations on the boot screen; https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Animated_penguin_GRUB_splash_screen
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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 22:51:50 JST Phantasm

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     @Suiseiseki Ok, then LILO. If BIOS text output is bloat, a pseudo-graphical menu selection is also bloat. Therefore both syslinux and grub are bloat.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 23:01:08 JST 翠星石

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     • mischievoustomato
     @mischievoustomato @phnt It's inferior to GRUB.
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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 23:01:09 JST mischievoustomato

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     • Phantasm

     @phnt @Suiseiseki systemd-boot is great

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     Phantasm (phnt@fluffytail.org)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 23:01:10 JST Phantasm

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     @Suiseiseki
     >GRUB offers a full graphical menu selection.
     bloat
     >GRUB1 even offered the ability to play animations on the boot screen; https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Animated_penguin_GRUB_splash_screen
     bloat
     >ability to play sounds
     bloat
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 15-Dec-2025 23:03:23 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt Full GNU/Freedom and important functionality at a tiny filesize that can fit on a 2MiB flash chip is not bloat.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 17:31:08 JST 翠星石

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     • 夜化
     @Yoruka @phnt rEFInd is massive, but at least it's GPLv3-or-later.
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     夜化 (yoruka@eientei.org)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Dec-2025 17:31:09 JST 夜化

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     • Phantasm
     @phnt @Suiseiseki bloat is GRUB, you should use rEFInd