We’ve been married 12 years now. She still doesn’t have a clue.

Yes, but now you get all the bad news streamed straight to you 24/7.

Previously you would have to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV at the right time to hear about it.

I ran it 2003-2006ish.

Having a package manager that updates online was a game changer for Linux distributions.

I had been using slackware for 6 years prior, and there was no real update path. Best case you’d just get the latest release on CD and install it over your (hopefully) separate root partiton.

Conpiling all your stuff sounded like a good idea in the age of the architecture options at the time. Alpha, Crusoe, PowerPC, SPARC and MIPS were all viable options.

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I have two machines running the latest kernels on EndeavourOS. One with a Radeon RX 7900 XTX has no issues.

The other one has a Radeon 6650 XT, which since a week or two ago starts getting kworker threads stuck while throwing errors about fence queues. Load can go up to the hundreds (while there’s no real load, but just blocked threads), until the machine crashes.

As I recall there was an amdgpu firmware update around the time it started happening, but the changelog on the amdgpu kernel driver hints at solving similar issues.

Back in these days you’d install your distribution and stay there until the next major release. There were no online software repositiories for updates.

And exploits were plentiful. It was an easier time if you were up for mischief.

If you’re coming from a feature phone - it’s great!

If you’re coming from a modern smartphone, you probably won’t be happy with it as a daily driver.

I’m voting with my feet, but carrying two devices.

Maemo on the N900 was close, but MeeGo on the N9 was there. The Ovi store even had the hot apps of the era.

Fuck Microsoft for killing that dream.

I flipped in 1997, so any software I might have missed since those days are probably not around anymore.

Windows 95 was pretty shitty in comparison to Linux, and a lot of software broke with NT 4.0

It was an easy choice at the time. Linux was the operating system for this new fancy thing called the internet. Software development turned into a career, and Linux is just a very nice stack for building backends and infrastructure.

I do have an old ThinkPad around running windows 10. I’ve only used it three times in the past five years: To unbrick an Android phone, to set the MMSI on a marine radio, and to update the maps on my car’s satnav.

I have a Xiaomi Mi A2 that I ran ubuntu touch on. The camera didn’t work, and it was based on ubuntu 16.04. They’ve dropped support for it now. It was not ready to be a daily driver.

I should be getting a poco x3 nfc in the mail tomorrow. It should have excellent support on both postmarketos and ubuntu touch. I don’t expect it to be a daily driver, but I can’t get the idea out of my head. I don’t like where iOS and Android are headed.

They do scan and try all ports.

I have a tiny VPS as reverse proxy with SSL termination for my fiddling. That one has a wireguard network to my hardware at home to which it forwards some hosts.

The tiny VPS is definitely the bottleneck in the equation, and if I were to have loads of traffic I’d probably go with cloudflare or -front in front of it.

He’s all Finnish. His mother tongue just happens to be a (official) minority language.

I’m a software engineer. I also do programming as a hobby.

Programming as a job can be draining, but I find that autonomy makes it enjoyable. If I’m just checking off tickets that I don’t care about, I’d have very little motivation to so so. If I can plan the road map and start at the end where my work makes the most impact, then I’m a lot more passionate about doing so.

I had a 4G modem with a web interface many years ago. It was flaky and would often hang. I just had a raspberry pi on my network pinging some known address, if it failed for long enough it’d replay the commands to restart the web interface.

If I’d have the same problem today I’d probably have home assistant power cycle the router with a smart plug.

13 years. Married for 6.

First two years were mostly long-distance.

I set it up during the outage last week.

Easy enough to just pull in the synapse docker container and run it on my home server. I wireguard it to my VPS that acts as a reverse proxy.

Both federation and push notifications work.

OpenSUSE has a 32-bit build.

Running modern web browsers is no fun.

No, I guess I mean 6 plus. I didn’t have a big reason to upgrade after that one.

At the time they didn’t support any vector format like SVG (do they now?)

iPhones 2G-3GS had the same screen resolution, so having pixel perfect assets were no biggie.

4 & 4S had twice the resolution. Annoying to upscale all your graphics, but app layouts stayed the same.

5 & 5s had a little bit taller screen. Annoying, but layouts could stay mostly the same.

Then comes the 6 plus with a brand new resolution that natively wants assets at 3x the resolution. Older apps would be upscaled to 2208x1242 and then downscale to fit the 1920x1080 display. You pretty much wanted to tweak your app to support the native resolution instead of hitting that scaling thing.

The landscape is better now with SwiftUI.

I later got a 12 mini for ARKit, but I had pretty much lost interest in the platform by then. It mostly just sat in a drawer.

iOS 26? When did this happen?

I feel like it was just yesterday I was solving fractional scaling issues on the iPhone 6 pro on iOS 8.

Now I feel really out of the loop.

Same here. I had been sticking to Ubuntu flavours for over 15 years.