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Re:Linux 5.0 on Monday March 04, 2019 @05:13AM (#19300120)
There's a network of shell providers called the Tildeverse: https://tildeverse.org/members
Diaspora is what you're thinking of. Mastodon is a federated twitter clone.
Especially when nitruxos.org is available
Re:Winamp 5.8 Release – First update in 5 years on Friday October 19, 2018 @03:25PM (#18259273)
I grew up using Winamp as well, and XMMS on Linux. This brought back a wave of nostalgia...
Re:OpenBSD 6.4 released on Friday October 19, 2018 @01:51PM (#18258551)
Do you have console access, via VNC for example?

If so, download the new bsd.rd image and place it in /

Reboot, and at the boot prompt type:

boot bsd.rd

Then follow the prompts.

I grew irritated with texlive and instead just opted to use https://overleaf.com for my LaTeX documents
Instead of Newegg, for PC parts I exclusively use Microcenter now. When I was in Atlanta, there were brick-and-mortar stores on the north side. Now I just use their web site. My last PC build ended up being around $40 cheaper through Microcenter than through Newegg.