shocking63

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   by shocking63 3mo ago

   I Was trying to install Fedora Workstation 44 on my Minibook N150 last night (10 pm, 116 AEDT). The grub menu booting from the install USB drive gave a bunch of syntax errors in the background. The media check failed at about 4%. Re-downloa
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   by shocking63 1y ago

   Back in the dim dark ages of the 80s, I persuaded one of the system programmers to print out the source for the curses library, which I the diligently typed in to my CPM/80 machine, I then got the source for rogue, which someone else h
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   by shocking63 1y ago

   I asked it my standard quest "Who was Adolf Hitler's mother?" and it's been bouncing between her married name and her maiden name, and it's still going! ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Magistral-Small-2506-GGUF:U
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   by shocking63 2y ago

   To me, one of the best features of ChromeOS is that it runs both Android and Linux. I have a number of telescopes that are controlled via Android apps, and being able to run astronomy processes apps like siril on the same platform is wonder
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   by shocking63 2y ago

   I lost my son, my firstborn, Nathan, over 30 years ago. He contracted encephalitis when he was 2 1/2 weeks old, and died when he was 2 1/2 months old. That was an experience I would not wish on the worst person in the world. That