All us tough guys are hopeless sentimentalists at heart.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2024

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  • I mean, Snapper did its job. My hardware failed. I managed to get it going again by hammering the button with my finger.

    Yeah, I get that.

    It’s more that your post reminded me of another one I’d seen where someone didn’t read one of those “advisories” before updating Arch. And Timeshift couldn’t save them, so they had to figure out how to get everything up and running again.

    If I recall correctly, they did get it running again fine, it just took a few hours. But I’ve been meaning to try and find somewhere to learn more about fixing failed boot, but the spartan grub prompt scares me, lmao!

    I’m assuming Snapper can fail for the same reason Timeshift did for that guy.








  • snow crash, which talks about the decentralization of the internet from a fictional and futuristic story

    I don’t remember it prominently featuring a plotline like that. That was the one with\

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    the nam shub or whatever? And hacking people’s brain’s with, basically, NLP?

    Well if that counts, then Neuromancer by William Gibson fits in that it’s about\

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    removing DRM (“Turing Locks”) from AI—legit AI too, not the hallucinating parlor tricks of today. ::: 😏