• provectus@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Does RMS fit in the picture here? The founder of the fsf and GNU and incentor of the GPL.

  • bobslaede@feddit.dkEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Isn’t it a bit strange not to change your wallpaper to something different than the default Windows one?

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldM
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      2 months ago

      The average tech bro doesn’t have the skill to maintain a single system long enough for customizations to matter.

    • dudeface@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I never pick a custom image for my my OS background, I never see it

      Sometimes I switch it to grey or black

    • Pomal@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      For the Arch defaults, I find their stock wallpapers generally pleasing in a weird n-dimensional way. When I was a young microslopper, it was always whatever brought me joy from newgrounds that week.

    • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The default wallpaper is meant to be pleasing, and I guess it’s meant to appeal to the average person? I’ve known several people that don’t change their wallpapers or that use that automatic carousel thing with a different image every time you wake the device.

      • eodur@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I usually set my wallpaper once right after install then never change it. I only see it for a few seconds right after boot anyways. If you see your wallpaper then you aren’t really doing anything.

          • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I think that there’s a legit rejoinder of “Why aren’t you optimizing the code to reduce compilation time, if it’s such a problem?”

            For something like C++, ccache, distcc, PIMPL (to reduce use of templates, which blows up C++ compilation time), precompiled headers, make code more modular to reduce the size of the compilation unit that changes when any one change happens, break stuff into libraries, etc. clang and gcc can profile compilations to identify what’s chewing up time.

            • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              “Sure, just give me the raise I’ve been asking for and I’ll get right on that.”

              “…”

              “That’s what I thought.”

            • lime!@feddit.nu
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              2 months ago

              that xkcd comic is coming up on 20 years old. most computers didn’t have multiple cores yet.

              • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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                2 months ago

                I mean, none of the optimizations I listed rely on multiple cores.

                It’s true that just running parallel compilation jobs on your build machine is a simple way to speed things up, no disagreement, but it’s not like optimizing compilation time isn’t a thing outside of that.

                • lime!@feddit.nu
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                  2 months ago

                  i was thinking more about tooling, most of that stuff didn’t exist as widely as today and you couldn’t really look for it when waiting for a compile either.

            • grue@lemmy.world
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              2 months ago

              In my experience, [proprietary] projects are doing well if their Makefile isn’t so broken that they have to run it twice just to make sure everything actually compiles. And you want them to actually optimize it…?!

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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          2 months ago

          If you see your wallpaper then you aren’t really doing anything.

          I use sway these days. It’s tiling, so I rarely see my desktop background anymore.

          But not everyone uses a tiling system.

          While I like the idea of avoiding having onscreen pixels wasted showing useless information, and I think that tiling systems do help achieve this, I avoided tiling systems for some years, as a fair bit of software still didn’t play well with it (e.g. I remember default behavior with GIMP being half of the screen being the main window, half being the GIMP toolbar window). I think that we’re past that phase now, but there are people who prefer stacking window systems for various reasons and don’t use tiling systems.

        • gon [he]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          IDK man, I like knowing that Frieren is looking out for me in the background. Even if I don’t see it, I appreciate that it’s there.

    • Waterpumpee@lemmus.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      since i have family and cant change it to prn,i keep it at default too. Honestly though, i barely see it. Theres always some ui over it.

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      2 months ago

      When I switched to Endeavor, Ganymede was the Default wallpaper and I fucking loved it so I kept it.

      The next update it changed (since it was still set to default), so I dug through an rsync backup to find it and changed it back to Ganymede

    • Shatur@discuss.tchncs.de
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      2 months ago

      I actually really love the default wallpaper in KDE Plasma. It changes with every release. I have a friend who also uses Plasma, and before each release, we always joke that the new wallpaper is our most anticipated feature because we’re too lazy to change our wallpapers ourselves and simply wait for new releases to do it for us.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        I don’t change mine on most GNOME installs, but I do like that the light/dark mode toggle also flips the wallpaper to a light dark version of the same style

    • altkey (he\him)@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      First time I saw that picture, win11 was new, and having it running meant you had a rather recently built PC with a TPM module. So, an additional layer of a (satirical?) hardware flex that I don’t think goes well with, well, the worse Windows at the time.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I love how just…normal…Linus is. Like…humble. Content.

    Like, hey, I revolutionized the world with a pet project. Nbd.

    When I was a kid I worshipped Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. I’m glad I realized later that Linus and Woz are the real heroes.

    • T. Hex@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Never meet your heroes. Have you ever seen the way he rages at people on the mailing list? Don’t get me wrong, he’s made some incredible technical contributions that I’m thankful for, but I have to push back against claims that he is a well-adjusted dude.

        • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
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          2 months ago

          From my experience as a new end user with basic questions and issues, it’s pretty normal for a decent chunk of other linux users in general. I’ve met more angry Linux people when asking for help than I ever have for any other OS or software.

          It’s a small minority I’m sure, but they’re extremely vocal individuals.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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            2 months ago

            Where was this, reddit or something?

            The linux users here seem pretty chill. There’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating jokes about linux users being pretentious, but I don’t really see much of anyone being actually obnoxious in any of the techy comms here

            • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Various distro and general forums and GitHub/similar sites. I’ve come across several over the last few years. The types of places you go for actual help from people with knowledge and experience. Not just various social media sites.

              It’s a small amount in the grand scheme, but they’re vocal. All it takes is one raging asshole for a normie first trying out Linux and looking for a solution to an issue to be driven away entirely.

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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                2 months ago

                That makes sense, I haven’t really interacted much on those sites. I’ve browsed them for help sometimes, and it seems like they get annoyed when people ask questions that are already answered. Either in the docs or somewhere else on the forum. They usually just say to do a search before posting to see if it’s already answered. But maybe if someone’s having a bad day and gets fed up with being asked the same thing over and over again. Or maybe someone’s just an asshole. I don’t know.

                I’m not saying it’s okay to be a jerk, especially on those forums where they’re literally representing the community. You’re right, it really can put a sour taste in newcomers’ mouths.

          • 4am@lemmy.zip
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            2 months ago

            You also have to remember that he made an OS as a hobby project and suddenly everyone wanted to mess with it. It was the Wild West of decentralized project management in those days, I don’t condone any of that unprofessional behavior but I’m also not in the least bit fucking surprised that he had very personal rage-out moments as unsolicited criticism poured in from around the world, constructive and well intentioned or not. That’s a lot of unexpected pressure.

            He got better, which implies to me that he wants to be a good person; and that’s all we can really ask of anyone.

            • Mikrochip@feddit.orgDeutsch
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              2 months ago

              True that. Andrew Tanenbaum dissing on Linux in the early days just because it didn’t conform to his ideals of a microkernel is sufficiently uncomfortable to read, imo. It’s not like Linus kept anyone from making their own open source kernel.

              • ivan@piefed.socialEnglish
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                2 months ago

                To be fair, they insisted that they were on good speaking terms. Seen from that one occasion where some article claimed that Linux was copied from MINIX and Tanenbaum dissed the article, defending Torvalds.

      • Fortunafors@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        People need to understand we are all humans and stop idolizing-idealizing people, aren’t you all bored of celebrities/famous people abusing their status?

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        If it’s any consolation I also worshipped Carmack and Zoid Kirsch (credited then by deadname)…

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Considering how I end up saying worse, when I get 100+ line changes of code with a commit message that only illustrates 1 of the changes, I don’t think I care about anyone being “adjusted”.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        2 months ago

        the way he rages at people on the mailing list?

        not really anymore for quite a while.

        he will absolutely tell someone that should know better, if they are doing a bad job, but the times of random shitstorms is over for quite a while now

      • Agent641@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Bruh if everything I said to people was recorded and searchable, I’d seem like an unhinged egomaniac with anger issues too, but people can change, and get more mellow.

      • BurgerBaron@quokk.auEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Another example being the developer of GrapheneOS. Unhinged, but works in our favor. Just don’t follow them on social media.

      • zeroclue@sopuli.xyzdeleted by creator
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        2 months ago

        Have you ever managed a project as large as this? I think we can give him some leeway here. If you invite people to help on your project that is worth quadrillions, but is open-source, you have to be hardened enough. And Linus is just a well rounded person who doesn’t play politics, that’s what I learned from 30 years following that dude. I have to admit, he is a diver, so I am a little bit biased on his personality type (btw, so is Gabe, but he is doing it on a much larger scale now). Anyway, give this guy some space, he is doing good work that we all need to appreciate more.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Counterpoint: Linus was all out in the open.

        I wouldn’t want to see what Bill Gates is like behind closed doors…especially as a kid.

        • wholookshere@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 months ago

          No one is saying hes on the level of gates or jobs or whatever.

          But that doesn’t make him an angel either. It makes him human.

          He famously took a year off because he wanted to work on how toxic he was.

          The comment was never meet your hero’s. Hes a good guy, but if you have had to work with him, you may be leas inclined to agree whole heartily.

          • Dr. Quadragon ❌@mastodon.ml
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            2 months ago

            @wholookshere but @JasonDJ never claimed that Linus is perfect. On the contrary, he admires how normal and human and unfiltered Linus is. So in terms of toxicity profile, we don’t need to actually meet him to know what to expect. So your gotcha is kinda irrelevant. We know he’s not a saint, and isn’t trying to be. Which paradoxically makes the guy more righteous than all tech billionaires combined.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I was actually going to comment on that as well but I didn’t remember the exact history of git.

        His newsgroup post announcing Linux is legendary, though.

        Or are you referring to his guitar pedals?

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Gates was a jerk. Jobs was a jerk that actually did make some positive impact on the world. Linus was a jerk who’s mellowed to a pretty normal state. Woz is a fucking tech Angel/God who just generally wants good things for people.

    • ∃∀λ@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      My local Microcenter has posters of notable computer pioneers up high in the back where you can see them from anywhere in the store. Each poster has the person’s name as well as something they’re most known for. Bill Gates is there as well as Ken Thompson, Robert Kahn, Robert Metcalfe, Grace Hopper, Richard Stallman, etc. I always thought that was a nice touch. Even though it’s like the nerdiest of all stores, I suspect 90% of customers are probably Windows normies and wouldn’t recognize any of them with the exception of Gates. Even I don’t recognize some of the names, like Kahn (co-invented TCP/IP) and Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet).

    • titanicx@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      Dude linuses anything but humble if you know anything about him he is one of the biggest dicks on the internet. Some of his reasoning is right but some of it is just him being a complete asshole.

    • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I like Ken Thompson. He wanted to play a game on a computer that didn’t have an OS that supported it so he wrote Unix.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    looks at image with ten visible LED fans

    I don’t have a problem with people decorating their computers however they want. They paid for it. It’s their computer. Everyone’s got their own aesthetic preferences.

    However, the last build I did, I was getting a little exasperated with how increasingly-hard it is to just find desktop components that don’t have RGB lighting on them any more. I mean, to me, the desktop computer is a box that has a bunch of circuit boards in it. I’m generally not looking at my RAM sticks or motherboard segments, and don’t have a glass window on the side to admire it (it gets dust in there, and I’d rather have a sturdier case without glass). I could do without the extra light pollution in my life. Most stuff can be disabled, but it’s kind of obnoxious to be buying and figuring out how to disable hordes of little RGB LEDs.

    I’d also add that where LEDs exist, they have multiplied over the decades not just in number, but also in brightness.

    If I wanted to have my computer be a light show, which I don’t, I’d get a DMX512 controller for it, and real lighting hardware.

    Maybe going for rack-mount hardware is an option. It’s something that I’ve thought about sporadically over the years, and it does have certain benefits, if you’re willing to give up portability. But rack-mount builds generally command a premium due to the market being less price-sensitive, and noise is often a more of a factor, since datacenters don’t care about keeping things quiet for employees.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Paraphrasing a tidbit of information from Northwest Repair, who’s a guy on YouTube that does board-level repairs on computer hardware:

      Apparently, reprogramming the firmware config and changing the RGB light status on a DRAM module are both done through the same SPI bus. Consequently, every time you change the RGB lighting, it has a tiny chance of accidentally bricking the stick.

      So not only is RGB an additional upfront cost that consumers might not want, it could even contribute to long-term costs by reducing the lifetime of some components.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I remember years ago there was a firmware source leak (or maybe the binary was analyzed or something) for gigabyte’s led controller firmware/drivers that basically just exposed the firmware programming bus to user land because that’s how they did lighting updates and the kernel mode driver just passed whatever the user mode driver gave it, which could include firmware updates to other hardware IDs.

        It was at this point that I stopped running a lot of those hardware control utilities (and I suspect that might also be why I barely saw any issues with the Radeon 5700 XT that was a bit infamous for “its” issues that I think might have just been incompatibilities with 3rd party “helper” utilities or shit written by companies that had gotten to the “just ship it” stage of development).

        • pivot_root@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          Imagine if ransomware did a BYOVD and held your actual hardware ransom.

          Shit like that should never have been signed by Microsoft, let alone made it through developer review at Gigabyte.

    • Staff@piefed.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The RGB, the gaming chair…gimmicks that do nothing…it’s stupid but somehow they work…they form trends and people latch to it even though realistically they do nothing functionally.

      I would argue they are detrimental to the experience. Gaming chairs are not more ergonomic than good office chairs. I don’t want external lights getting in the way when I’m concentrating on the monitor. RGB is literal light pollution in your own room.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Things like Noctua fans and motherboards aimed at enterprise use cases tend to not have the shiny distractions that average tech bros want.

      You probably want to stick with ATX over rack mounted stuff as an individual, just means you have to search for function-over-form brands for peripherals and the motherboard.

  • DrStanleyGoodspeed@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    What tech innovation actually looks like. Sort of no frills, high efficiency, what works go with it type thing. That shit works. I did shit like that once. Most beautiful internship that was wasted on me. I had free reign of an electrical engineering lab at Oak Ridge as a summer intern between freshman and sophomore year of college. There were like shelves full of random devices and circuit boards. Like half built shit that someone said fuck that noise on, and wires, and circuit boards, and batteries. Random computer monitors. All that shit. It was a fucking disgrace and it was beautiful. My steward or whatever wanted me to test an Op-Amp? He gave me a book on how to program using excel, a book on op-amps, one lecture, and told me there were two grad students in the room that can help if you need it. He left everything I needed in close-ish proximity and says good luck. So that’s what I fuckin did. The grad students would help briefly from time to time if I begged, but it was clear this was my shit they aren’t to spoon feed me. He wanted them tested in an oven using known input voltage increased sequentially in a continuous run. I found a voltmeter/thing that emits and controls the volts and know’s shit about what’s going on. I had to wire qthat thing in a certain way. That part was actually sort of fun and surprisingly easy. Had a PC, a lab oven that looked like a broke ass piece of shit to me but it worked and did what it was supposed to, the volt whisperer, the chip, and some thing that the chip had to be in that a bunch of cords connected to it so the shit was like coming out weird from the oven. It was easy to hook up once you knew what you were looking for. Getting excel to talk to that hillbilly ass looking piece of shit took an entire week. Eventually got it to do what it needed to do but LMFAO the stupid piece of shit beeped every time it shat voltage and took a measurement. Every. Single. Fucking. Time. To this day I don’t know if this was some kind of test that I failed or just random fucking bullshit that happens when you tell a stupid fucking piece of shit college student like me to shit his brains onto a bunch of hardware. The shit worked! Everything worked and I got everything he wanted me to get. Excel made some pretty graphs that looked like they were supposed to. I think he sold the patents. My poster was fucking awesome at least in my eyes, but some dumb old surely bitch didn’t like the formatting but fuck her ya know. I give myself a b+ for that one. It looked damn good on paper. Ended up becoming a doctor. Sometimes wonder if I would’ve been more successful if I would have stayed with engineering. Who tf knows!?!? Blehhh

  • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Okay, but… a big HDPI monitor is so much easier on your eyes. Even if all you do is scale your font size way up so þat you have exactly þe same effective rows × columns of text, it’s still noticably cleaner and you can turn off anti-aliasing wiþout incurring jaggies.

    He’s standing pretty close so maybe a huge monitor would be counter productive, but still. Þat looks like a bog standard business Dell and þey’re pretty basic displays. No high refresh, no higher luminosity, and probably just a basic 1080p. Splurge for a better monitor, at least. A quality keyboard makes a big difference, too, but I can’t see what he has þere. Doesn’t look ergonomic, anyway.

    • porcelainpitcher@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Ja ja ja, we agree! Anyway What everyone really wants to know is:

      Do you have Íslenska keys installed on your keyboard? Do you have “th” autocorrected, somehow, to ‘þ’? Or do you swap keyboards to purposefully use ‘þ’, instead of “th”? As I have just done.

      Not being a dick. Just having some fun 😊

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I do not! All I did was turn on “extra keys” in my phone keyboard. On my desktop, Thorn was already in an XCompose I stole from someone a decade or two ago.

        Icelandic layout is a good alternative, þough.

    • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world
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      1 month ago

      Dude. Use þ & ð correctly. It is moðer. Fucking. Annoying reading your text and having to back track because you use ðe wrong fucking letters.

      You mean “ðat”… “Þat” sounds like “fat”

      You don’t mean “þe” you mean “ðe”

      It’s not “þey’re” it’s “ðey’re”

      “wiþout” is correct

      • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zipEnglish
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        1 month ago

        In Icelandic, sure. Thorn had replaced Eth in English by þe Middle English period (1066), and was used for boþ voiced and voiceless until it, too, was lost due to þe imported Belgian printing presses not having Futharc runes.

  • vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de
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    2 months ago

    pfff, no rgb on Linus’ setup. I have instantly lost every shred of respect for the guy. My hero, reduced to common trash in my mind…

    /s obviously