Re: "(not (not a-tech-person)) I’ve been thinking a lot lately…"
In: u/bouteloua
@pirkka -- I bet you could do some sort of nonsense macro to like count so like (not (not (not 'symbol))) -> (not 'symbol) and (not (not 'symbol)) -> ('symbol)...
@norayr -- gentoo was very fun to run. I had jumped to it frum Ubuntu because the latter changed something and auto-compiled in a kernel feature my laptop's CPU couldn't boot (I dont remember exactly what -- that was like 15 years ago). But OMG, constantly compiling on a laptop that had, at best, utterly garbage thermals and would idle at 60C? I did love how smooth everything was.
@lars_the_bear lol, I get that -- I just never quite glommed onto it like some
@flipperzero :p
🌻 bouteloua [OP]
20 hours ago
👻 darkghost · 8 hours ago:
I'm a tech person who doesn't program, doesn't run the latest hardware, and doesn't put it in every aspect of my life. Trying hard to stay in that 2008 mindset where the stack is advanced enough to do anything you can think of but before it became rather abusive to individual liberties.
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🌻 bouteloua
(not (not a-tech-person)) I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how I’m (not (not a-tech-person)), but that doesn’t make me (a-tech-person). Like, objectively, I’m pretty techy: I daily drove Gentoo on my laptop in high school, I wrote a neural net from scratch, I had a tech startup with some friends in college, I built a home server running Debian plus samba to share a huge zfs volume plus some containerized services and vms, etc. But I never got really into it like some people do. I just didn’…
💬 6 comments · May 20 · 2 days ago