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Me in 2021: I’ll never understand live streamers.

Also Me in 2003: Uploading camera snapshots every 2s to people I was playing Ultima Online with, while downloading theirs in return and chatting via IRC.

Not much changed, eh? 🤷

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The year was 2005 and I was playing Codename: Gordon, a 2D sidescroller set in the Half-Life lore, using Macromedia Flash Player run via Wine on Linux.

Apparently this game can still be installed by any Steam user with the command steam steam://install/92 because it was part of the freebie package “0”.

…and no single Proton was in sight 😛

Ymmv.

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I’m making heavy use of Hetzner storageboxes, a rather slow network storage solution perfectly suited for backup tasks. Sadly they come with hickups resulting sometimes in a failed automount status where the machine may not recover from on it’s own. That’s so common that I got tired of checking monitoring or logging in to each individual machine. and to my aid!

for i in {bob,alice,steam,punk,younameit}; do echo "$i:"; systemctl --host "$i" status storagebox.automount; done
So how are my storagebox mounts today? Ah yes, yes, seems like two need a little pep talk.
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Doing the same @edent – just less fancy:

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The one where I spun up a virtual machine to deDRM my ebooks. by gergolippai (A day in the rants)
The area where I didn’t expect I would have to uncloud is books, but behold, it is happening. My kids addicted to books. They read all the time. They read in the car, they read in the evening…

Yeah, this happened to me before too: https://gergolippai.com/2021/08/29/the-one-where-i-spun-up-a-virtual-machine-to-dedrm-my-ebooks/

You bought a book, how wonderful! But you can only read it on our devices. Fuck portability. — gergolippai

And I scratched my itch in a similar way. Calibre ❤️

Rant.

So this is what I got for replying to a question what others use as educational material for events in reenactment:

No one else can see your comment. We have these standards to prevent things such as false advertising, fraud and security breaches

Know what FB? Fuck you. Our fragile relationship is coming to a grinding halt here and now.