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oshu @ oshu @lemmy.world
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Low-level floppy operations with native floppy controller on older PC with modern Linux distribution

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  • Its fun and rewarding to figure stuff out and awesome to write it up and share with others.

    I've had good results with ufiformat and usb floppies, but indeed only 3.5"

    • Low-level floppy operations with native floppy controller on older PC with modern Linux distribution

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  • Nice write up! Curious, was this to avoid using a USB floppy drive?

    • Friday Night Fry

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  • sir I think you have greatly over estimated my weiners

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  • I've come to realize that bluesky already had all lot of what I'm happy to not see on masto. Good that there is a place for it to exist without me.

    That content is also probably what the majority of people like about it.

    • What is the point of fast food anymore

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  • $18 of that $25 was delivery fees and tip

    • A Very Good Plunger

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  • Check your fave online store or search engine for "luigi plunger"

    eta: this is the real name, not a joke

    • retain terminal output colors through piped commands?

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  • hot tip, you can avoid the ls alias by running \ls

    • A Very Good Plunger

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  • True! I prefer the version with the long handle for the toilet however.

    • A Very Good Plunger

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  • I don't know but this plunger gets it fixed very quickly

    • Seeking Opinion - Best TUI/CLI distro for Dual Booting with FreeDOS.

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  • why not use FreeDOS to connect to the network directly?

    • Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"

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  • I agree, its entirely possible that a jury may find his act of killing justified.

    • Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"

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  • The word murder has a specific meaning in law: The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the crime of killing a person with malice aforethought or with recklessness manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.

    • Replaced the drain plumbing on both of my bathroom sinks.

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  • My fave uncle was a plumber and the man could fix anything. Most important lesson he taught me with home repairs was take time and do it right the first time. Or pay double to fix it later.

    • Broccoli, cheese, and MILFs

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  • I grew up kinda poor and so we ate more vegetables than anything else because my grandpa grew them. Still love broccoli (and potatoes and carrots) because grandma was a good cook. Thanks to my grandparents for making sure I always had something to eat!

    • Simple spelling rule.

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  • Languages are the original open source and will never stop forking right off however enough people form and propagate them, dude

    • Replaced the drain plumbing on both of my bathroom sinks.

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  • You have to buy Draino continuosly but you only have to buy a good plunger once

    • Simple spelling rule.

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  • I always forget how cute their little island english is with all the extra letters and fun ways they mutate loan words!

    • as a rule, if you feel the need to assume what someone else is saying? don’t!

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  • I just ignore and block if it continues. I got no time for people who are responding to the voices in their head instead of what I'm actually writing.

    • I like how the title pretends *nix operating systems don't exist

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  • Been using linux on my desktop since 1999. Don't need an official declaration.

    • Which graphical system utlities you miss on Linux?

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  • I've been using linux for over 25 years and I don't understand this post. One of the strengths of linux is that you don't need a gui to do sysadmin.