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  • musetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldForbidden Tech
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    2 months ago

    I saw an electrician use one for troubleshooting. Half the outlets in the house were in serial on the same circuit, and there was a problem in the wall somewhere. He disconnected the wires from the breaker and backfed power from a live circuit to an outlet to see if there were any more breaks further away.







  • musetoLinux@lemmy.mlWhat was Linux like in the 90s
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    4 months ago

    Looking through music and budget software CDs at a computer store or a college vendor table, there would be one with a penguin or BSD mascot. It wasn’t like the other discs that had DOS shareware games or utilities. The CD rom drives were 1x speed, attached to a card on the ISA bus, without plug and play, so it needed an interrupt number that didn’t collide with other cards. The install process was curses based, with no mouse. There would be much time spent figuring out how to partition the drive, usually after buying a book. Back then, computer book sections were huge. The software install dialog had one line description per package, and it wasn’t easy to tell what they did. Then there was setting up X Server and choosing a window manager. Not all video modes were supported, so it took a lot of trial and error with editing config files and resolutions before the the window environment would work. This was before home internet so it would take a weekend or all week to figure out. The only accessible communities in many parts were dialup bulletin boards, unless there was access to a college computer lab with a mosaic or netscape browser. At this point it was realized that I lived in a tech desert, quit my retail job, and moved.








  • musetoTrans MemesEssential care
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    7 months ago

    I had mine on the dresser for a while, then gave it to my dog. She really wanted it when she came home for the first time. Sometimes she grabs the tail and whips it around, and every night carries it to her bed.







  • musetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    8 months ago

    When I was a child I thought everything was run by grown ups, who had the answer to everything. Then I grew up and saw everything as run by children, who made everything up as they go. Now I see everything as run by animals with insatiable appetites.