Notices by linear cannon (linear@nya.social)

it's always a weird feeling when you finally finish a bugfix you've been working on for weeks and the end result is two single-line changes that, on the face of it, seem trivial and make immediate sense in context of the error

it's hard not to feel like the fix doesn't justify the time spent, even if i know otherwise

if anyone wants a different sort of uspol-weird than the other stuff i'm seeing on the timeline:

congress held a UFO hearing today and to say that it is eyebrow-raising is probably an understatement

love to wake up 20 minutes before a meeting only to discover that it's a holiday and i don't have to go to the meeting

i do not love to then find out that my wife is out of the house not because of her externship but because she's in the ER due to accidentally taking her meds twice

she's fine, i took my e-scooter there to visit her and bring her a burger and she'll be home tonight, but it does suck that she missed her externship

@chjara@akko.wtf in theory, sure. but if you try to pretend that this is true in the real world then you will run into issues when someone tries to run your code on proper 32-bit x86 without sse2. or when you find out the hard way that sometimes AMD and Intel CPUs return slightly different results for a number of different transcendental operations

there should be a factorio mod that lets you build computers that run linux

why is my internet only getting 1.6kbps

me, 23 hours ago: "wow! electric scooters are so fun and also practical as a transportation method in my local area! i sure hope i dont fall off and sprain my wrist!"

me, 22 hours ago: "ow"

@dysfun@social.treehouse.systems i am rather considering writing my state representatives about this

yesterday i got myself a low speed electric scooter for getting around town with and almost immediately fell and injured my wrist

oops

@thephd@pony.social whatever you choose to do from this point on, your efforts to this point are greatly appreciated. you have done good

say what you will about bcachefs and its maintainership issues, but when i first tried btrfs after it had been merged and marked stable, it ate my data twice within a week, and so far bcachefs has shown no sign of wanting to eat my data under similar conditions

@chjara@akko.wtf yeah i imagine it's fine now if distros like SUSE are defaulting to it, but it had a rough start and i think that in comparison, bcachefs's introduction to the kernel proper hasn't been all that bad, even if there are some clear adjustment pains for the maintainer

tow-boot makes the experience of using a pinebook pro so much less painful. it should've shipped with something like this out of the factory

my 286's hard drive is dying :(

it had a good run. now it gets to take a rest on the shelf

i never actually encountered a 5.25" floppy disk (that i can recall, at least) before 2019. the computers of my childhood had 3.5" floppy drives, if they had them at all. i find them endearing nonetheless

i sure am computing

i can print!!!!

and unlike the fileshare to my kodi box i don't need a NetBSD server in the middle to translate, NetWare and the (much newer) printer happily talk with each other over TCP/IP