xycu

joined 1 year ago
[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago

Heliboard for normal communication (glide typing) and Hackers Keyboard for shell/remote desktop/programming type usage. Generally i find the keys too small and typing on a touch screen is slow and annoying, so i use a real computer to type whenever i can.

My typing accuracy is much better with gboard, but I don't use it because google...

I have never used voice to text nor voice controlled assistant etc. as I have no interest in doing that. My phone is muted 99.9% of the time, I prefer to operate in silence...

[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 4 weeks ago

I had a 256GB phone and after 1 year had used less than half the space, without ever deleting anything, so when i upgraded this time I saved money and got the 128GB model. I sync my photos/videos to my NAS so can purge those from my phone at any time to save space. That's really the only thing that takes up any significant storage.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Gentoo. Literally the entire system is a build environment. Imagine a single environment that's capable of compiling thousands of different packages and managing dependencies etc.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

I have a bunch of different old consoles and vintage computers (not "444" of course) and used to try to have them all hooked up, it was such a miserable rats nest of wires. I eventually settled on just using one at a time (I am only human, after all).

Whatever I'm playing gets the prime hookup spot in front of the TV, everything else gets stored neatly on a shelf or in a box. Cables and controllers are in individually labelled zipper storage bags, in bin drawers, out of sight until they are needed...

Of course, hooking them all up is a hobby itself... It's easy to go down a rabbit hole of scalers and SCART switches and RGB mods and then you suddenly find yourself a couple thousand dollars poorer.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

When IBM killed OS/2

[–] xycu@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Looking-glass.io is what most use for that

[–] xycu@programming.dev 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

My "main" OS timeline was:

  • Apple II/C64
  • MS-DOS
  • OS/2
  • Linux

Technically I used windows 3.1 at times in DOS and OS/2 for some specific piece of software, but it was never what I primarily used and I don't consider Windows 3.1 a proper operating system, it's just a desktop environment.

Not sure exactly when, but I know by 2000 I was fully on board the Linux train.

Started using Linux in the days of floppy boot and root diskettes. Lived through the days of hand-crafted SLIP scripts for dial up internet. The days of needing to pay for working sound drivers. Manually calculating modelines in Xfree86.

I have primarily used Windows at work, probably been 99% windows and 1% Unix/Linux. I have had windows laptops and virtual machines for certain specific use cases but it has never been my main.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 11 points 4 months ago

Modern journalism: a chatgpt summary of a reddit, tiktok, or twitter post, with an ad in-between every sentence.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Gentoo has binary packages now, so install can be quite fast.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 6 points 4 months ago

Gentoo for the last 20+ years. Slackware before that.

Ran something or other off dual floppy drives at some point in the ancient times... A boot diskette and a root diskette.

[–] xycu@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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