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  There must be some law I am unaware of that all vintage/retro PC equipment purchased on eBay must smell like tobacco products. Doesn't matter if it's completely empty, still stinks. Yuck.

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  For anyone in the Austin TX area: our monthly Austin RISC-V Group is having it's monthly meeting 7pm tomorrow at Diogenes Makerspace (1917 Hydro Dr). All are welcome, come get your #RISCV questions answered and/or check out some hardware. Hope to see you there! #Linux #ATX

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  So, I boosted two things earlier and I wanted to add some thoughts. These toots brought into focus a lot of the feelings I've had of recent: modern computers are too hard. Have you tried to write Vulkan code? It's insane, how is anyone supposed to understand that. The frameworks have abstracted us into complete unknowing, and now LLMs are here to save us. No, I don't agree. We need to re-think a lot of these abstractions and simplify, esp. in OSS. https://wandering.shop/@...

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  @mwl@io.mwl.io I firmly believe that the complete lack of understanding, and support, around IPv6 by last mile (and especially residential) providers in North America is the absolute largest impediment to broad adoption

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  @w8emv@hachyderm.io if you worked at my day job, you would also know we're deprecating JIRA and SharePoint in 2027. No replacement is announced.

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  @flexion@oldbytes.space Awesome! Are you willing to share? I'd love to set that up on mine as well

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  It's May the 4th - which means it's time for DevOps Days Austin! Tomorrow and Wednesday, tickets are still available at https://devopsdays.org/events/2026-austin/welcome/ and I'll be speaking. Looking forward to seeing everyone there! #atx #devopsdays

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  Everyone loves to dogpile on systemd, but dracut is my nemesis. Is it nice that it's small? Yes. Does it make WAY TOO MANY ASSUMPTIONS? Also yes. I know the default filesystem of Ubuntu is ext4, but why won't you let me boot to an xfs filesystem I setup with debootstrap? Because some magic in dracut enforces the filesystem type, despite me overriding it in the config. So frustrating.

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  Guess I'm only showing off Ubuntu and Fedora on the stream tonight then :(

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  Was dbrand's limited edition "touch grass" series silly? Undoubtedly. Is it also incredibly awesome? Yes.

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  People keep saying variants of "One this is for sure, GenAI is here to stay" and those of us with short term memories will say they said same thing about NFTs. But I, as an Elder Millennial, would like to invoke the old texts and remind you they said the same things about Java Web Applets, Shockwave Flash, and most importantly Flooz.

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  @wrmsr it's true, I have two of them I'm storage. Worse, they don't even have 3CXL supervisors in them