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RickRae Rick Rae @fosstodon.org

"Somewhere between Cosmo Kramer and Sid the Sloth."

Embedded systems specialist since forever. Got my start in the days of cassette tape storage and hacking Friden Flexowriters into DIY printers. Long ago earned my Olde Phart certs and currently doing post-grad work towards Curmudgeon.

:linuxmintnew: :cinnamon: :android: :arduino: :pine64: :raspberrypi: :firefox: :libreoffice:

Not to be antisocial, but: \#NoBot #NoIndex #NoSearch #NoArchive #NoScrape

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Accompanied by bad acting and writing
  • @Anticorp

    There are so many computer terms like that! Gnu, which is the closest parallel to Gnome. SUSE Linux. Gif. Lib.

    Me, I apparently learned most of them incorrectly. But those (mis)pronunciations are ingrained and comfy now.

    Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE1fzk-4TJk&t=125s

    @HughJanus

  • Show your rubber duck debugging ducks
  • @cynar

    At home, I rely on Kizuna AI, who offers the added benefit of having the same confused expression on her face that I probably do, if I'm reduced to explaining a tech issue to her.

    Helps me feel as if it's not just me...

    Image flagged sensitive due to (inanimate) eye contact.

    @lambda

  • "why would i change my passwords?"
  • @Nfntordr

    The place where I work does these regularly, and you get slammed hard if you fall for one, and frowned at if you don't use the "Report Phishing" button on them.

    But the knuckleheads contracted testing out to a company that always sends the tests from the same domain.

    So anyone even the slightest bit savvy about spam/phishing/email headers can set an Outlook rule to dump test emails to a special folder and pop an alert.

    @tibor

  • Planning on building a PC, anything I should know?
  • @starship_lizard

    Related, don't throw away any packaging until you're done with the build. Sometimes they hide parts in non-obvious places (e.g. little recesses in the styrofoam).

    @PurrJPro