It went extinct 5000y ago.. so it has to be a reconstitution based on fossils..?

lentils! chick peas! beans! legumes in general, they are great! you can integrate them into anything...

(ie. cook a bunch of lentils to eat warm with whatever veggies you can steam... but leftovers the next day are turned into a salad, etc. )

friend told me "ah you like hacking at DOS and stuffs, you may be interested in that, it's called 'linouqse' i guess..." so i gave it a shot.

"Slackware"... it was something like kernel 1.3.12 or 1.3.13 i am not sure... it came on 6 or 7 floppy disks.

from the boot already it seemed like nothing i had seen before: all (!) hardware seemed to be methodically enumerated, a bunch of esoteric commands and processed started their bizarre dance before my very eyes. looked already like i was accessing so much more information about the insides of my -then beloved- machine than ever?! this flashes very fast though and is a bit frustrating... then a rudimentary install menu, in text mode, asking a lot of questions.

.... trying all of this and failing many times, getting an old hard disk in a secondary bay to dedicate to the exercise... getting to it again and again (there was no Internet, where i was, then)... until finally, the thing boots up. a login prompt. i had remembered the password chosen upon install, that was it!

... a shell? i had never heard of Unix before, 100% of my previous practice before was with micro-computing, from 8bit to 16bit to DOS PC and its laughable Windows 3.1 (tm)...

...... what am i gonna do with all this, now?!

[fiddling...]

[months passed]

... "xf86something"....? what? some more configuration? some more esoteric? Where does that lead me? wait.

..... a graphical environment just popped out of my console?! with windows and shits?!!? this was there since the very beginning, like it was already there this whole time?!?!

🤯

Later on erring back on the side of Win3.1 because its "trumpet winsock" was the obvious, "easy" way to get connected to this new eldorado that opened up around (the year was 1995)... reading more about it on this new "online" helped me figure how to get back on that cool and hacky side, to finally (after months?) get the modem to connect, through PPP, to my ISP....

This is when I decided it would be cool, someday, to make this my primary OS, and that i'll work towards this end from now on. at the same time i heard for the first time of "free(libre) software" and that thing resonated within me as something i didn't know was possible: a way to organize society, based on virtuous principles of sharing knowledge and helping one's neighbor, through the same playful excitement of hacking that had kept me on my toes since i was a child? where do I sign?!

3 years later i decided to never boot a Windows OS again, and here I am, ranting on lemmy like i am 275 years old.......

pine64 because freedom.

Last generation emulation console (A*bernic). All history of video games up to PS1 in my pocket/backpack <3

...You wouldn't download a car?!

The Secret of the Monkey Island

Sid Meier's Civilization!

android is spyware

do you think a company like cloudlare.com, that injects its javascript in between given site and you, will hesitate one second before transmitting its data with the FBI (or any other police), and help them tracking users down?

Wait.

1/ publishing evidence of the Clinton campaign actively undermining Sanders who was then the natural candidate of the Democrats according to their internal polls (including by using antisemitic slur) + actively boosting Trump campaign because "it's the only one we can beat" is "throwing the US presidential election to the Republicans"? How this genuine, authenticated information of public interest, published in the New York Times and WaPo is throwing the US elections more than the facts that were being reported?

2/ "worked with Russian intelligence" is absolute nonsense. What is your source on that? The Muller report says the opposite. If anything it is possible (but not proven) that the source may have been from within Russian intel, but a) Assange mentioned several times -way before that episode- that the entire architecture of WL made it impossible for them to actually know their sources, and we have all reasons to believe that (as it would be the smartest thing to do) b) if any journalist gets documents that are authentic and of public interest, regardless of the source, their duty is to publish it. If a Russian intelligence source had provided fake, doctored or otherwise altered material, and they would have been published as such, it would have been a real scandal. In the facts we are still talking of ground-breaking journalism.

I still can't figure that some people cannot realize that Hillary Clinton did all she could to actually lose this election on her own (this and a fundamentally fucked up electoral system), and are actually finding scapegoats like Assange to avoid looking at this reality in the eyes...

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