the_wiz

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, look at it the other way around:

  Those niche places act like a filter, pretty much alike as the whole internet was about ~20 years ago. Yeah, there may be fewer people around, but those people tend to be quiet a bit more interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, “the rest of us” is ruining the internet by following the people in the top of the trash pit.

  You know… nobody is stopping you from self hosting, building a website or digging a gopherhole?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come nobody does anything about North Korea?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why should we, as the collective west, spend soldiers lifes and money on “liberating” a population that hates us? Oh, and please mind: “Liberating” a country normally also includes killing a shitton of civilians in this process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Viewers like you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could we please stop calling this mediocre LARPers Nazis? My grandfather was a Nazi, party book, SA uniform and all… and he would be ashamed of the MAGAs et. al.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely! I observe this behaviour on myself: I am nowadays even sometimes coding on my phone (though, the experience is still… “suboptimal”), but for everything else? Its mostly fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have not played it since the beginning oft the 90s, so… perhaps it was Mord enjoyable if you had no alternatives 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pacman! I am not entirely sure, but I think it was an Atari 2600 where I really enjoyed this on at a similar age

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to mention it:

  gopher://sdf.org

  There is no better place for plain and real content

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I am using rsync triggered by cronjobs for this task now for… well… nearly forever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am still more inclined to follow the “old Linux nerds rulebook” and keep recommending to learn LaTex ;-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You never forget your first⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was not my first (this would have been the Atari 2600), but the console that still has a very special place in my heart is the Atari Jaguar

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ideas for Hosting on a 2009 Netbook?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What about a trip into the smol-web? Perhaps a Gopher or Gemini Server? A IRC Bouncer? Or enter the fascinating world of telnet BBS systems!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, *This* is the Fastest MS-DOS Gaming PC Ever | TheRasteri⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, you would be surprised how much really good software from back in the day (especially games) can run on quiet modern hardware. I have an old Thinkpad with a Core2Duo running FreeDOS that I mostly use for gaming and most of the DOS titles of the late 80s to mid 90 are running quiet well.