I’ve put on a bit of weight since then, but I wouldn’t say that I’m giant.

You spent a few evenings downloading a hundred or so 1.44MB floppy imges over a 56kbps modem. You then booted the installer off one of those floppies, selected what software you wanted installed and started feeding your machine the stack of floppies one by one.

Once that was complete you needed to install the Linux boot loader “LiLo” to allow you the boot it (or your other OS) at power on.

All of that would get you to the point where you had a text mode login prompt. To get anything more you needed to gather together a lot of detailed information about your hardware and start configuring software to tell it about it. For example, to get XFree86 running you needed to know

• what graphics chip you had
• how much memory it had
• which clock generator it used
• which RAMDAC was on the board
• what video timings your monitor supported
• the polarity of the sync signals for each graphics mode

This level of detail was needed with every little thing

• how many heads and cylinders do your hard drives have
• which ports and irqs did your soundcard use
• was it sound blaster compatible or some other protocol
• what speeds did your modem support
• does it need any special setup codes
• what protocol did your ISP use over the phone line
• what was the procedure to setup an tear down a network link over it

The advent of PCI and USB made things a lot better. Now things were discoverable, and software could auto-configure itself a lot of the time because there were standard ways to ask for information about what was connected.

No, it’s rage harvesting nonsense.

The purpose of the strike was to raise awareness and make the issue one of public note more than anything else. It didn’t really work in the long run. The pits closed. The communities suffered and they’re still feeling the effects today 40 years later.

The mines needed to go IMHO. The country needed to move on, but the way it was done with absolutely no support was callous and heartless.

We repeatedly face the same problem with industry still running from the Victorian era. This week it’s 2,700 steel-workers at blast furnaces in Scunthorpe. The government are stepping in “to save British steel”, but as part of it they want to modernise. A modern arc furnace only needs about a fifth of the workers (based on Port Talbot having 2,500 job losses when they closed their blast furnaces, but only needing 500 for the new furnace when it opens), so whilst they are “saving steel worker jobs” they’re also planning to let most of them go. The key question is what do those people do instead. Hopefully something less hazardous, but it has to be something.

This aspect of pipewire, the possibilities of routing audio and video between applications and devices, should be amazing. It’s not, because most apps try to do it themselves.

Give me an OBS where everything is a pipewire sink, and the result is a pipewire source. Give me Firefox that doesn’t talk to cameras and microphones, but opens pipewire sinks for inputs and sources for outputs (this bit is already ok). At that point I’ve got a full studio setup with remote interview capability perfect for podcasts, audio or video.

Maybe this is all coming together slowly and I’m out of date, but last time I tried it was so frustratingly close but not possible.

The big thing she’s remembered for is closing down the mining industry. Whole communities throughout the north of England and Wales were left penniless. They were towns where everyone worked as a miner or in some way related to the mine. Nothing was done to give any alternatives.

Of course there was a huge industrial dispute - The miners strike. Massive, initially peaceful, demonstrations that turned violent as police would attack and stir up the conflict. People died, communities were shatteredd, yet through it all Thatcher was unmoving. Just using the police as her own civilian army.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQh4n8rRLw8

She viewed as a uncaring authoritarian tyrant by many.

Cruft isn’t just stuff on computers. Houses can be full of it. It’s left over useless crap, normally with a bit of age to it.

Spotted Dick is not a bread. It’s a sponge pudding that you cover in custard.

Also. If you do want to add an option to show the last few lines of the log using tail instead of cat will do it.

Rather than reading the whole log just to add a line to it, you can use >> to append to the end of the file.

function log()
{
	local changelog="/run/media/jamie/DUAL/changelog"
	if [ "$1" == "--view" ]; then
		cat $changelog
	else
		echo "$(date +%D:%H:%M): $1" >> $changelog
	fi
}

Scammers never let a good global crisis get in their way.

1. Rebadge a distro and say it’s fromm the EU
2. …???
3. Profit!

Set it and forget it, eh?

Any distro you like, as long as you stop futzing with it.

Seriously… they’re breaking because you change things. Linux machines stay up for years without issue. Stop breaking the install.

Don’t tend to have a terminal emulator of any kind installed on remote boxes. They’re headless.

That exception is my primary use case for tmux, so that explains it.

As a non-user of kitty, why did it make you drop tmux? Don’t they do different jobs?

That’s what a lot of countries allow. Not all though.

That’s fine and is what most European countries have. What they have is minimum levels to say that a parent is resident (e.g. over a couple of years of a legal status). This is to avoid pregnant women doing exactly what the OP suggests. Make journeys last minute just to get their child a different nationality.

Those are rookie numbers.

Yes. Yes you can.

Ignore it. Move on.

Your 4 drive raid5 array, right?

Right?!