snowraven

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[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Wow that article was a ride. I feel so happy to not have used windows in the past 5 or so years.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know man, those tools - they seem rusty to me.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

Aye, I can't argue with that

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I have read this a hundred times and it's still as beautiful as the day I first read it.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

Yesss let's go.

I can finally die in peace.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Lol that's a pretty fun idea actually- just to see the commits evolve over time. I know there are over 1 million commits but yeah when you think about it all of them pretty much document the state of kernel at that time.

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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by snowraven@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

I have always been a history enthusiast. Unfortunately, I don't know much about history in the context of computers. I am therefore interested in learning more about significant events and people like Richard stallman and all the related events such as Windows refund day. I am interested to read and explore the timeline, I suppose a book would be ideal but any good resource such as a youtube series would be great too.

Update: I am happy to recieve such wide variety of resources to explore, I hope this post might help someone who is interested in FOSS history in the future too.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You might as well tell others to just use windows at this point.

Edit: Yeah sorry, my point is that freedom is what makes linux linux. I don't really think you have ever used linux mint before and I don't want to sound like a white knight for linux mint but you should atleast be a little less condenscending towards a distro that has been among the top distro for beginners to switch and has fulfilled the role of a full OS without ever needing for many like me to dig too deep into linux configs and stuff. Mint's development towards debian is only a good thing for many users like me because it preserves the future in case of a ubuntu upstream issue, besides freedom is the spirit of linux.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember reading this article from the Odin project.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Damn I see it now.

(Sorry for my bad England)

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Guess communism jokes are old now. Sad times.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Yes sadly, I see your point. Big corporates are ruining everything. This is not to say I advocate communism but it's sad to see the only alternative to communism devolving into a toxic system.

[–] snowraven@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Ah yes, late stage capitalism. Communism was the answer all along. /S

Edit: I love how evryone ignored /S for sarcasm. Just to clarify, yes I know communism is ideal on paper but doesn't work in real life and yes, capitalism while having its flaws is the only alternate we have.

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