spauldo

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[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It's a bit more complicated, really. The islands weren't usually politically united. China lost actual control of the Ryukyu kingdom well before the first Sino-Japanese war, but maintained a claim on it for quite some time.

The US took over administration during WWII and converted many of the Japanese bases to American ones. The US doesn't claim any of the islands anymore and has closed some installations, but a lot of bases are still active. The US is responsible for Japan's defense. Japan would rather have the bases in Okinawa rather than in mainland Japan (although there are a few bases there as well), which a lot of Okinawans feel is unfair. Okinawa is very well placed strategically though and Japanese people don't like foreigners (sort of... It's weird), so don't expect the situation to change any time soon.

BTW, if you ever want to visit Japan, Okinawa's a great option. It's beautiful there and it's not hard to get by on just English.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

I've got a different Supermicro board. I've noticed that it's extremely sensitive to SATA issues - if something isn't just right it doesn't boot or gets all kinds of wonky. A flaky cable is enough to cause issues.

I assume you've tried it with nothing but CPU, RAM, and video, but if not give it a shot.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Favorite? No idea.

Least favorite? Alan Alda in Canadian Bacon. Dammit man, you were good in MASH, why can't you act in anything else?

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You'll notice if you look that North America and South America are missing from the map. That's what the title means.

Also, there's no consensus on how many continents there are. Someone from the US would be very surprised to hear that North and South America are the same continent.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

On a greentext community? Blasphemy!

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've never talked to an Arch user about Linux, so I dunno how toxic their community is. But I do read Arch documentation, and it's fantastic. Arch's documentation has (for me, anyway) taken the place that used to be held by the old HOWTOs back in the early days.

The kind of cooperation required to accomplish this doesn't speak of a toxic community to me. I didn't watch the video since I don't watch YouTube on my phone, but I'm guessing it's not the Arch community that has issues but annoying teenage "I'm more 1337 than you" jackwads that are the turd in the Linux punchbowl. Those little cretins are drawn to distros like Arch because they like feeling superior to the "normie" users.

I should know, I used to be like that thirty years ago. Most of us grow out of it after we start getting laid.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago

They wouldn't be able to build it. It wasn't until the 16th or 17th century that metallurgy and machining were advanced enough to build atmospheric steam engines, much less high pressure ones.

You need a lot of tech to jump start an industrial revolution.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Emacs doesn't follow the UNIX philosophy. It didn't originate on UNIX - it was born in a mainframe environment. Instead of lots of independent specialized utilities it's a Lisp engine with a text editor as its default program.

That said, there's nothing to be afraid of. It's not like vi will stop working. Just install it and run the tutorial, play around with customize, learn how to make an init file and install which-key, read some blogs (Mastering Emacs is a good one), browse the info pages, and use it.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

So it did. That's interesting.

It was the fact that they used RPMs that made me think they were a Red Hat derivative. I didn't care for Red Hat (I ran Slackware back then, switching to Debian around Hamm) so I never gave them a chance. Pity.

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It never caught on in the states.

IIRC it was originally based on Red Hat (back when Red Hat Linux was a thing), wasn't it?

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I paid for a car that I could drive halfway across the country in and be comfortable,not spend a fortune on fuel, and not worry too much about it stranding me on the side of the road. The smart screen just happened to come with it. So it seems to have worked out fine for me.

Are you naturally an asshole or are you making a special effort here?

[–] spauldo@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Or just don't connect your phone to it. That's what I do. I've never touched the "smart" screen in my car except to adjust the air conditioner.

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