• FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Fun fact, you don’t even need to crawl through hundreds of feet of black water waste pipe to install Linux.

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        3 hours ago

        Blasphemy…. There is only Linux from scratch.

        All else’s is a heresy most offensive!

        (I’m jesting, if it wasn’t clear. Most distros work well out of the box.)

        (I would recommend lfs for anyone who likes to learn the hard way. You will learn as you go, but it can be frustrating.)

  • ExtremeDullard@piefed.social
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    19 hours ago

    Missing caption: “What the hell is the command to turn the water off?” 🙂

    Just kidding of course. I’ve been using Linux pretty much since forever and I love it. But there’s a learning curve if you just switched to it.

  • CallMeAl (like Alan)@piefed.zip
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    19 hours ago

    In 2002 I was lost. I went to Las Vegas ready to gamble it all away. I got in late. There I sat on the bed. Unable to move on. I don’t know why but on a whim I opened the drawer of the night stand. There I saw it. I don’t know who put it there or why. The Linux Bible. All I know is from that very day my life was changed.

    • 𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.pub
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      18 hours ago

      Hahahaha!! My friend’s brother went to defcon, and told us he left “a little surprise” in the night stand in the hotel. I wonder if that was him!

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      19 hours ago

      The security conference DEFCON and other technical conferences are held every year at Vegas, I wonder if someone from DEFCON put it there, lol

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    19 hours ago

    I had messed around with Linux and failed for a while, as I was using dialup and was trying to get win modem drivers working under linux. Fast forward a few years later and I finally switched when i finally had broadband, and the concept a virtual machine was really becoming industry standard in late 2000’s, and I wanted to start experimenting with them, I hated trying to hunt down windows licenses for each VM I wanted to run, and I started messing around with Linux in VM’s as they were free. Thank Tux, I finally starated running Ubuntu on my bare metal machines around Ubuntu 7.04 I think, my WiFi drivers “just worked” and it was magical.