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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • Yep. There weren’t devices everywhere so we all learned about them together, hunted for Easter eggs, and trolled each other by inverting mice and flipping screens and all of that. It felt cleaner because there wasn’t an ad on every screen. I remember getting a book with exercises in it and just working through it for keyboarding, and going to the lab in a class to do research for a report (or just goof around on the Internet). I also remember in later high school when the IT director informed us very proudly the school had almost a TB of storage across our several computer labs like this.

    Good times. I do also remember having THE computer for the school and it rolled in on a heavy cart.




  • Who is having breaking update issues anymore in 2026? I’ve been running vanilla Arch for 10 years and the only times that has happened (there have been a handful I guess) the archwiki says “hey there’s a breaking change run these 2 commands” and it’s fixed. As a beginner on Linux I actually switched to Arch because every Ubuntu issue I googled was 6 to 10 lines to fix while arch was 1 to 3 lines. The only problem is that the OS expects that you be able to read, which is sometimes tough.

    I can’t imagine being on a system that is multiple major releases behind on basic things like nvim and python. I guess if you’re content not to use anything remotely current it makes sense.