Dr. Quadragon ❌

Sysadmin, Unix punk, Technolojesus, and Free Software freak
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Bit of an SJW. Militant atheist and battle skeptic. Former Devil’s advocate. Devout Saganist.
If you are a Nazi, we can’t be friends.
Former admin of mastodon.ml, local Movie Knight

Доброхотъ. Социальный граф с поместьем.
Больше не босс этой качалки.

GET ON MY HORSE, I’LL TAKE YOU 'ROUND THE FEDIVERSE!

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Cake day: August 18th, 2019

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  • @doomsdayrs Money is just one of the issues. You’d have to leave everything and, more importantly, everyone you know, your whole social context, behind.

    It’s not easy to do, especially when you’re an adult with friends, family, romantic partners and responsibilities. You can’t just pack them all up with you, as they have the same problem, just one level down. And if you don’t have the means to travel frequently from one country to another, you might just as well leave for another planet. Sure, electronic communication exists, but it’s not a substitute.











  • @asklemmy Not a prank, just a story. Back at the Uni, we had a hall in the building, and that was where all of the administration was sitting. This was also one of two spots students hung out during breaks.

    In there, there was an “Internet kiosk”. In practice, the damned thing was just a crappy WinXP PC with a touch screen and a metal keyboard. It was useless, actually, almost nobody ever touched it, because there were better alternatives in the computer class. The speakers were loud, though.

    By default, it opened a browser with a Uni’s website as a homepage.

    I loved how amazingly useless it was. So It was my primary target.

    We ran Doom on it, we replaced the browser with MS Paint (boosting the usefulness 100-fold), replaced the homepage (at this point the whole administration learned what the fox said and that Rick Astley was never gonna give them up by heart, because it was 2013 and Internet was still cool).

    On a year 3 I had to stop, though, because the dean was after my blood.







  • @asklemmy Here’s one more from me, also computer-related:

    If you’re in a non-English speaking country and your machines use layout switch function, add *one* more keyboard layout on every system you touch. Doesn’t matter which one, but bonus points if it’s as similar to ones present as possible, but different enough to matter - for example some letters are “switched”. I used German, French and even Bulgarian.

    Lock the session and watch the reaction.

    You are welcome.