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Re:Don't Just Say "Hello" in Chat on Tuesday April 30, 2024 @07:27AM (#40209804)
Entitled much?

I just learned to not care. I say "hi" to notify that I'm there and let them type. When an answer is required from me I pay attention, think and answer. Until then I ignore it.

I found it so much easier for me to learn not to be (too) distracted than to lose my mind trying to educate humanity to adapt to me.

Re:RubyWM – an X11 window manager in pure Ruby on Monday January 22, 2024 @11:16AM (#39091184)
There is/was Subtle which I used to use a long time ago: http://subforge.org/projects/subtle/
Re:Debian 12 “Bookworm” Released on Saturday June 10, 2023 @01:17PM (#36272467)
And Slackware!
Re:New Nightmare, the Hammerhead Worm on Wednesday May 24, 2023 @01:45AM (#36054516)
Clearly! Emacs has won but the fight for the second place is fierce.
Re:Calculators Now Emulated at Internet Archive on Sunday January 29, 2023 @02:05PM (#34571493)
It boots in the No-ROM-found mode.

Funnily I updated the ROMs of 2 HP 49g this weekend through that exact screen.

Re:Names should be cute, not descriptive on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:44AM (#34324731)
This describes absolutely nothing to me. It just confuses and excludes me. Then if and when I understand what it means I then have constantly translate mentally between the cute-yet-infuriating names and their actual meaning in the context.
Re:Ask HN: What's on your home server? on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:52AM (#34273721)
Old laptop server: Nextcloud, Gitea, hledger, calibre, some custom apps

EDIT: oh and pi-hole on a separate Odroid-C2

Books. They're called books.
Re:My Many Girlfriends on Friday January 07, 2022 @03:26AM (#29836495)
In a lot of elevators rez-de-chaussée is labelled 0. We just don't use that when communicating
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