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@kaia You can't see that, but neither of them said that and GNOME was started to offer a free GUI for GNU and the Emacs OS has a GtK GUI.
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mia (developer mode)
mia@shrimptest.0x0.st@kaia if they (end user) see old men, you’ve fucked up
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Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯
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mia (developer mode)
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Sally (evil)
sally@freesoftwareextremist.com
@kaia
Crapple degenerates be like "we must build a culture where we assume the end-user is borderline retarded, and if he isn't, he soon will if he's using our products".
Crapple degenerates be like "we must build a culture where we assume the end-user is borderline retarded, and if he isn't, he soon will if he's using our products".
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arcana@layer02.net
arcana@layer02.net
@mischievoustomato @kaia @lucy @mia I didn’t get a laptop until I was 18 when I bought a cheap £200 blank one to put Ubuntu on, I had two desktop computers — one at my nan and granddad’s house that was Windows 98 and one at home which was Windows XP.
First one I got in late 1998 which was a Tiny and the second one I got in 2002 which was a Compaq (and one of the last ones before they were acquired by HP).
I had dial up internet on the 98 one but didn’t get internet on the Compaq until 2006. The dial up connection could be pretty bad at times, I remember people in RuneScape on my friends list getting annoyed because they thought I was clicking the button that cycles showing as online and offline because that’s how brittle the connection was.
First one I got in late 1998 which was a Tiny and the second one I got in 2002 which was a Compaq (and one of the last ones before they were acquired by HP).
I had dial up internet on the 98 one but didn’t get internet on the Compaq until 2006. The dial up connection could be pretty bad at times, I remember people in RuneScape on my friends list getting annoyed because they thought I was clicking the button that cycles showing as online and offline because that’s how brittle the connection was.
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GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) 
eris@p.enes.lv
When I was a kid, there was some kind of windows 9x computer that was used for Word (and luckily for everyone involved, my family knew how to store their documents on floppies I couldn't reach). First "interaction" with programming was when I was maybe 10 I found a soviet pop-science book about BASIC. I was retarded enough that I found it enjoyable without even having a computer on which to do anything about it xd.
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@arcana @kaia @lucy @mia @mischievoustomato I got my first computer when I was 12. Dad bought it from his work and it was already 8 years old at that point. It could barely run the current version of Windows at that time.
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Nicholas Conrad
nicholas@aklp.clubWe got a 386 when I was about 3 or 4, with 1 floppy drive (5¼") so I had to learn to load DOS then swap out the disk for the games I wanted to play. We had Joust and DigDug. When I was a bit older (and had a hdd) I learned to program by modifying the parameters of the pre-packaged qbasic games, snake and the one with the gorillas throwing bananas at each other.
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arcana@layer02.net
arcana@layer02.net
@mia @lucy @kaia I picked up some scripting tomfoolery when I was in high school like creating fake error messages on school computers, opening people’s disk trays randomly, accessing the school’s camera system, etc. but I didn’t properly start programming until sixth form college at age 16 when I learnt Pascal. I then self taught C using the Unix Programmer’s Handbook from 1986 that I picked up in a Welsh bookshop. Then I self taught myself Perl so I could more quickly iterate on my ideas and get some remote jobs to build a solid basis.
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nemesis@layer02.net
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GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng)
eris@p.enes.lv
opening people’s disk trays randomlyah yes, in highschool I created a cursed USB drive which autorun installed a script that does the random disk tray opening and registered it as a startup item.
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mia (developer mode)
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bartholin (back to work arc)
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Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯
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@mia @arcana @kaia @eris in our school we had beamers and they were all networked which was the only way to connect. The teacher had to enter the room number to connect the computer with the correct beamer. Except it was horribly maintained win xp bullshit so, occasionally we played funny videos in arbitrary classrooms 
speakers included of course. They never fixed that, most teachers didn't even understand what's happening and the "administrator" was some elderly teacher who knew how to print a pdf and therefore got entrusted with the school's computer infrastructure.
speakers included of course. They never fixed that, most teachers didn't even understand what's happening and the "administrator" was some elderly teacher who knew how to print a pdf and therefore got entrusted with the school's computer infrastructure.
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arcana@layer02.net
arcana@layer02.net
@lucy @kaia @eris @mia my high school had a single IT room and no other room in the entire school had a computer. The IT teacher was an alcoholic woman in her 50s who kept spirits in her desktop. The IT room was so high tech it even had a white board rather than a black board like all of the other classrooms
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mia (developer mode)
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mangeurdenuage 
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mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world
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