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Re:Zorro 2 IDE Interface for Amiga 2000/3000/4000 on Monday September 01, 2025 @03:02PM (#45095585)
It's been interesting watching the re-releases of various devices trying to emulate classic hardware, either with a SoC or just entirely on ARM but attempting to be faithful to the originals.

But this looks like another kind of fun, if I understand it correctly.

Re:How to switch teams and still be great on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @03:11PM (#40650219)
Good topic for Pride month
Re:Rotating distros on my daily driver on Friday May 03, 2024 @02:56PM (#40251004)
What draws you to different distros? I get my thrills switching between GNOME and KDE on Debian every now and then ;) I guess you'll get good at isolating your dotfiles and other configuration tweaks.

I'd want to try out

- Tumbleweed (rolling release SuSE)

- Mint Debian Edition

- Arch, to see what the fuss is about

- NixOS

- Zorin, or another "easy listening" distro

Re:Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech? on Friday March 03, 2023 @09:46AM (#35010255)
I went back to school to get a teaching certificate and taught middle school for three years, a couple of summers at a high school, and three more years as a college lecturer (aka adjunct).

I'm back in tech now, which took hard work getting up to date. I was out for ten years and basically missed a whole lot, such as containers, cloud as the path of least resistance, and React. On the other hand, Linux and Python haven't gone out of style.

I enjoyed my time teaching and the perspective gained. I don't regret it, and I did learn more about my own strengths and weaknesses.