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@BarelyEagle @graf @Kagekokoro Linux distros are made by a lot of people, ranging from based chads to reeking faggots.
Really just depends on what distro you use

Can you explain this like I’m someone whose last meaningful engagement with computer technology involved punch cards and vacuum tubes?

poast hosts a mirror for gentoo because I have used gentoo for 20+ years, it is my distro of choice when I can deploy it (example the database this poast is about to be poasted to is running gentoo) so to give back for 20+ years of giving me my freedom back I have given them some hardware we own to host packages for people to sync

Graf, what is a gentoo? I am a child to computing.

installgentoo.org

wow they let the domain expire
gentoo.org

im actually super proud of being listed as a mirror because I ran it for two years before they even acknowledged the "bug" report and verified it

yeah look how long this took https://bugs.gentoo.org/917619

Persistance.

I say that with respect.

Gentoo owes me nothing, but I owe a lot to that project so I will do what I can to support it

> poast hosts a mirror for gentoo

Nice. Now that I've got 500Mbps fiber I could actually do that for Slackware.

But honestly I think seeding the Slackware torrent is probably an even better way for me to pay them back. I also seed the Linux Mint Cinnamon and XFCE torrents.

as an XFCE user since I first installed gentoo on my thinkpad I think t42 or t42p I cant remember back in 2004 that same install has made it to every thinkpad I've had since. everything is exactly the same except I use a dock similar to elementary os's dock on it now (still xfce4). I can open that laptop and it's exactly the same as the day I really started to learn how to use linux. rolling release distros rock

one of our jannies uses strictly slackware, I will also host a mirror. poke me about this tomorrow and I'll make sure I get it done

fun graf lore fact: I first used/learned linux in the late 90s with Caldera OpenLinux 1.3. my brother bought a "linux for dummies" book while in high school. ncurses based installer called LISA (linux install and system administration) and I think slackware still uses that to this day, or at least they did the last time I installed it

@graf @James_Dixon @BarelyEagle @Ronnie21093 @Kagekokoro Dragon book, compilers, devil book, unix bible, NSA trusted networks also the big ugly book that doesnt fit on a shelf, pink shirt book...guide to IBM pc's.

you older than me?

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 you're around 40 right? We about the same age...lol

just turned in april ya

I didnt get hardcore into anything until unironically 9/11. I was installing progeny linux (a debian fork that sucked major balls) and I was like fuck this time for something new and swapped to freeBSD. daily drove that until I found out about gentoo and I've been using that since

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 I was an open solaris man myself for a while.

I also had two sparcstations. never got to fully utilize them because of the stupid proprietary display and keyboard connectors and being a teen with no job. sold them for supier cheap. look on ebay now, ones that look like somebody ran over them 400$ +

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 I was so broke back then man. I had this shit tier toshiba and solaris was only thing that ran on it.

I used gak at sparc shit in computer shopper. I wanted one so bad lol

my high school comp sci teacher literally just gave them to me, he also gave me my first real video card. number 9 32MB. I was so pumped to play gta 3 on pc you have no idea

take me back bro

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 shit yeah man. My ISP handed out shell accounts back then, rare even in like 99. My school was busted bro, if you wanted computer you had to fight for it.
07 Fight for Your Right.m4a

remember when you got NNTP(usenet) access for free with your internet and they just took it away from everybody in like 2003 or 2004

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 oh 100. it was great. like even on your shit windows box you could get your usenet right in your email client!

I used forte agent on windows. used it strictly for mp3s and man was it fucking fast. when they rolled out @home cable internet here (i know you had the same brand shit it was all of NA) the lancity modems t hey provisioned everyone were uncapped so everyone had symmetrical 100mbit it was fucking wild

they flashed it after a while but people backed up the old firmware and posted guides on how to downgrade lmfao

@graf @ins0mniak @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093
Oh, yes...
My first home internet connection was a cheap, shitty dialup provider, but they had an NNTP server as it was the custom at the time...

I learned a lot of shit reading threads on there bro. a lot of shit
i also saw a lot of fake celebrity porn. a lot of celebrity porn

@graf @quercus @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 any Sydney Sweeny shit send it my way.

no this is back in the julia roberts days

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 meh not my type. but there was a lot of solid artistic and tasteful stuff I did download.

the first naked woman I ever saw was a fake nude from usenet of julia roberts finger blasting some other bitch in a bathtub made it the wallpaper on my family pc too

@graf @ins0mniak @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 what causes this

being like 10 or 11 with unrestricted access and knowing that i could just ctrl+alt+delete and close netnanny and have unrestricted admin access to the pc

@graf @ins0mniak @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 I had that and I didn't set the desktop background into chicks fingerblasting so you're leaving something out

I just like women, a lot. sorry

>send it my way

I wonder if when the ai bots scrubbed the internet they were able to find that or no

@BarelyEagle @graf @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 man everything was age-gaped back then. you had to work for high quality nudes. You would think the internet would have made it easier but it was more annoying in a lot of ways.

the sheer effort to get some rad tits was insane back then
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ahh hell jack jackin off to channel 33

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 every once in while you'd get sound on it.

"ride me like a cowboy"

youd turn it down like "oh shit"

you get it brother

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 it was real back then man.

my dad built a cheater box from a kit he ordered from some magazine so he could watch PPV sports stuff and it would work on those channels 2am moment

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 punk rock man. My first job was at a video store right?

I couldnt take the naughty ones home but I could take the artsy euro ones.

fast forward a bunch of French shit to get to the lesbian shower scene on vhs.

they never showed anything hardcore on TV here it was always soft core or lesbian shit

showcase was the first channel in canada that streamed anything "racy" and it always came on directly after trailer park boys lmfao

@graf @BarelyEagle @James_Dixon @quercus @Kagekokoro @Ronnie21093 yeah same. every once in a while you'd get free hbo for the week.

so you could see low tier soft core late at night.

"I dont know what you recorded last night but you cant watch it!"

MOm!

you and i didnt live too different of childhoods, wild that canada and america are so polar opposite now with a lot of shit