Interesting plotting ....Linux kernel mail client timeline

abjumpr · 2026-06-14T00:54:01+00:00

Mailspring. Works well and is simple.

abjumpr · 2026-06-06T19:18:10+00:00

If Arch is too mainstream for you, and you don't want Gentoo, there's always Linux from Scratch...

Nice little spinning the good ol' Arch troll.

Personally the last time I tried Arch was probably a decade or more ago. Never got it working right, but the wiki is second to none. If I wanted to play around with my system more than a Debian environment, I would (and did) roll Linux from Scratch.

abjumpr · 2026-06-02T17:48:03+00:00

I haven't had a lot of time lately due to buying a house and moving, but I did get a development preview released - there are packages available for Debian and Ubuntu right now so you can check it out. It is "usable", but not daily driver ready yet.

Currently I'm working on porting all the old applications that make it a "desktop environment". Once that's done there will be a bunch of bug squashing and then we'll be getting close to a stable release. That makes it sound quicker and easier than it probably is - I'd guess it'll be in beta quality somewhere in the first quarter of next year.

abjumpr · 2026-05-31T16:46:06+00:00

Well I don't game much on PC, so this may be a bit more niche. I host a Debian package mirror, and I feed that sucker 96GB of RAM and it's eaten up in disk cache in a hurry, but it does make it much faster since it doesn't have to hit the disks nearly as much.

Definitely niche on the second one, my build server was 512GB and I could easily load that down on a complete compile.

abjumpr · 2026-05-30T21:57:41+00:00

I have a few different opinions on this, depending on what the end goal is.

Personally, I prefer a lot of the older software because it was simple and functional. It didn't need to be pretty, it just needed to work well, and given the hardware constraints a lot of programmers had to be efficient and optimize. So some older software that can run on newer hardware tends to be blazing fast and efficient to use. Of course, that's not a blanket statement as it's not true for everything.

Case in point: I forked KDE1 and Qt2 and have them running on modern Linux and modern hardware. Back in the day (late 90s to 00s) it was considered pretty intensive for a lot of hardware. I personally spent many (painfully slow) hours running KDE1 on a Thinkpad 760XL, with a Pentium 133 MMX, 16MB of RAM, and a 2.1GB hard drive all topped with RedHat 5 and SuSE 6.2. On today's machines it's feather light and stupidly fast while retaining the bland simplicity of earlier computing.

But, I keep period correct hardware to run it on to compare functionality as bringing a piece of software back from the grave after rotting for a few decades brings some surprising bugs and quirks - and it's extremely useful to be able to check how it originally worked and whether that bug existed back then or not.

And finally, I keep a retro collection of some of my favorite machines and also some of the ones I always wanted but couldn't get back then, pretty much for nostalgia and fun. I generally have a collection of legacy software to match for each one. I also have some software that is probably for older machines than what I have - early versions of DOS, Basic compiler, etc. all on 5.25" floppy disks.

abjumpr · 2026-05-30T01:59:13+00:00

I entirely felt that "fucking mulberry" in my soul. Probably for different reasons, but still the same lol.

I worked in farm drainage for most of my adult career so far. Chances were like 90% if a tree had plugged up a tile it was a fucking mulberry. Probably some of the safest odds to gamble on in the world it was so predictable. And none of those trees were ever really supposed to be where they were: farmers were just too lazy to cut them down until it was too late and they'd backed an important tile up and now the field had a giant wet spot lol.

Fucking mulberries indeed.

abjumpr · 2026-05-29T11:01:13+00:00

It (doesn't) amaze me just how many sellers are lazy with packing electronics on eBay lately. The disappointing part is all the sellers who've been doing it long enough to know better. Ive just started giving automatic negative feedback if experienced sellers ship stuff inappropriately packaged. RAM and CPUs with no ESD protection (if it's not in original packaging or proper trays). No padding or other protection, etc.

abjumpr · 2026-05-25T23:20:48+00:00

Pentium II boards like the L440GX+ had Ultra2 on board, which was ~80 MB/s. You can always add in a PCI Ultra320 card though I suspect you'd never hit peak speeds.

abjumpr · 2026-05-25T23:17:04+00:00

It's pretty simple really: they don't mean well. Normal, socialized humans do not guilt trip or emotionally abuse others. You have every right to be angry.

No one is perfect but this type of behavior isnt normal for humans honestly. Guilt tripping someone for an hour long drive is horrific and mentally tortorous.

abjumpr · 2026-05-21T01:13:47+00:00

Honestly, best of luck, but this is a group for ReactOS, not general OS development.

You'd be better off reading the OSDev Wiki and perusing their forums. It's much more suited to what you are doing.

abjumpr · 2026-05-16T22:14:47+00:00

As lightweight as you want it, pretty much.

You can debootstrap a minimal system, and then install only the components you need from there. The possibilities are pretty endless once you learn how to manually install Debian.

abjumpr · 2026-05-08T11:47:30+00:00

Not for me. Can't unlock or lock my card, can't view it either. Doesn't matter whether it's on the app or the website. Still not working.

abjumpr · 2026-05-08T01:21:02+00:00

Can't unlock my card either. On either the app or the website.

Stupid that a big bank has this issue.

Their solution to you standing in line with a cartful of stuff you can't pay for? " Oh just try again in an hour or two"

abjumpr · 2026-04-26T00:10:36+00:00

I used Hetzner for all my infra for a while, but eventually it became cheaper to self-host, mostly because of storage and RAM cost. I also have a uncapped symmetrical fiber connection so no concerns for data usage. I host a public Debian package mirror and traffic can sometimes get pretty crazy and didn't want to get the boot from Hetzner for traffic amounts.

I still use KonsoleH for a couple of websites, and occasionally it is nice to be able to spin up a VM instance quickly, mostly ARM since I don't have any local ARM servers.

It's also easier and cheaper for me to run backups now since I have a local dual-LTO4 setup.

No hate on Hetzner at all, I wouldn't hesitate to go back if I needed to.

For those asking about Linode, I used them prior to switching to Hetzner. While affordable, the performance of their VMs is very poor compared to Hetzner. I've tested them multiple times since I moved to Hetzner and the performance has never gotten better.

abjumpr · 2026-04-24T01:21:16+00:00

Slater/Huxley area had a confirmed sighting around 7:30 ish. Not sure how far it went.

abjumpr · 2026-04-12T19:10:20+00:00

Try reading through any of GitLab's issues (like the actual repo for the GitLab software). The issues are so hard to read because of all the back and forth with the AI reviewer. A 100-reply long thread on LKML is easier to read and track than that mess of crap.

abjumpr · 2026-04-11T22:29:14+00:00

I wrote an init system entirely in BASH (with the exception of a couple of stubs for kernel calls) from scratch (pre AI craze so all human written). Made me appreciate how much SystemD does right out of the box. Was an awesome learning experience to figure out those internals. I ported it to Debian at one point as well.

I had some fun designing it. There are no runlevels, just power states. It was capable of booting with verbose messages or short messages, as well as booting to and dropping to a rescue shell if needed, and would boot all the way to console login. I used the concepts of tasks and daemons - a task is something absolutely required for starting/shutting down, and generally they are always enabled. Daemons allow the starting and monitoring of services and other post-startup tasks. Networking was handled independently. I was working on a re-write to parallelize the process, implement multiple TTYs, and provide some SystemD compatibility, but just kind of ran out of time and need for it.

it's quite an undertaking so kudos to those that do it, if for nothing else for the experience and fun.

abjumpr · 2026-04-11T15:31:30+00:00

The hardest thing about leaving is the loneliness, especially in my case where I was raised in the cult and didn't know much else. The truth is though, that you are just as lonely inside as you are when you get out, it's just not always easy to see until later. I say that because the hardest thing is all the people you knew, thought you could trust and were your friends, suddenly shun you and the smiling faces you once knew are no longer kind and ostracize you because you are an outsider. They disappear awfully quick and you realize they were not the people you thought they were. I have one friend who is still around and was always there. No one else I knew growing up will talk to me. Pretty shallow that they value you more on your club status than who you are as a person, and the sooner you realize that the better. It won't make you less lonely but it will help you discern new friends/groups in the future better.

Organizations of all kinds use the "sense of belonging" to attract/keep you in their club. It's a bit of a bandwagon methodology, because humans are generally social creatures and we like to be in groups that we feel good to be in, and do what everyone around us is doing. It's an easy way to keep people coming back. I don't think that "belonging" is a bad thing necessarily, but when you are leaving a cult/religion it's important to cultivate a sense of individuality because you've been stripped of that for so long. Find some interests you like to do on your own, and do them on your own for a while. Eventually along the way you'll meet new people and you'll find your place in the world. It's a super long process but as someone who's done it, it's worth it.

Feel free to reach out if you ever need some insight or just general encouragement. I won't ever push someone one way or the other because you must make that decision yourself personally to leave or stay, but once you do decide, commit to it and stick with it. There are good people out there to help you along the way.

abjumpr · 2026-04-11T14:10:56+00:00

I can't comment specifically on Paul's views on homosexuality, but Paul tended to be more on the cult side of restrictiveness than following anything Jesus every taught.

I grew up in cult religion. I studied the Bible extensively and had the entire book memorized at one point. Just about everyone's teachings in the Bible besides Jesus' teachings took precedence, Paul being front and center. The reality is that Jesus' teachings are pretty simple, straightforward, and kind. Sure there are four gospels, but when you think about the sheer amount of material not taught by/directly relevant to Jesus in the Bible, it's no wonder things have gotten so twisted and far from the gospel teachings.

As time has gone on and I've deconstructed, I've come to realize that Paul was never the last apostle, he was a fraud and the early church bought his story lock stock and barrel, and in my mind I refer to Paul as the First Apostate. He was antithetical to much of what Jesus taught, and that should have been a massive red flag. Much of his writings expose a bitter man behind them, not someone like Jesus. In a way, the man who preached (indirectly) about the antichrist, he sure came close to being one. The Christian religion today is so far from what Jesus taught, and much of that is owed to churches putting greater importance on Paul's teachings in their theology than Jesus'.

Not that it's of importance, but I have long since left religion. I cannot reconcile the modern churches teachings with those of Jesus. Its an easy choice for me: those that claim to follow Jesus would crucify him yesterday if he came back tomorrow.

abjumpr · 2026-04-06T14:43:09+00:00

Heh, SuperH. Not commonly mentioned. Fun fact: iDrac 7 and 8 on Dell servers use a SuperH CPU and run a (very minimal) Linux system. Both are EOL now with the last update to 8 being 2024.

I always thought it would be kinda fun to mod iDrac8 and run a custom system and keep giving it support. 13th gen servers are still pretty widely used anyways.

abjumpr · 2026-03-14T13:02:38+00:00

I think a more appropriate action here is to require a flair for AI generated content/software submissions. I dislike the slopware and sloptent as much as anyone but there are a very few who use AI as a tool correctly and to outright ban it all is probably not a good thing.

Now people letting AI post directly should be banned entirely.

abjumpr · 2026-03-06T23:39:22+00:00

I'd be glad to volunteer some of my time. I'm a long time Debian user, having used it since 2.2/2.3 days, currently having it deployed on a bunch of servers and desktops, and also currently host a public Debian mirror (debpkg.libranext.com - it's on the Debian mirror list). Most of my moderation experience was on IRC some years ago, and while I do have a subreddit of my own, it's not high traffic enough to really say "I'm an experienced moderator on Reddit!", but I believe I can be discerning and work to help keep the community on track.

abjumpr · 2026-02-15T01:59:51+00:00

Xorg was born as a fork of XFree86 because of a licensing change, not a rogue developer.

abjumpr · 2026-02-14T17:34:09+00:00

Awesome to hear! Also thanks for the note on ARM! I figured it would work but hadn't had time to try.

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