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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

[01:22:59] brothchild hi cardboardbox

[01:23:04] brothchild i dont know sory

[01:23:46] brothchild but generally i'd use cp -r or rsync to transfer a dir

[01:25:15] brothchild hm

[01:25:28] brothchild i was wise enough to never encrypt drives

[01:26:11] brothchild maybe idk

[01:26:45] brothchild probably the right thing to do for some people / situations yeah

[01:28:45] brothchild you're not alone

[01:28:59] brothchild often it's a web of terminology

[01:29:07] brothchild and you can't get footing anywhere

[01:29:13] brothchild it wants to be correct

[01:29:31] brothchild and to be precise and correct in technical domain you have to use specialized words

[01:29:56] brothchild or a hobbyist

[01:30:21] brothchild it's all 'basic' stuff but there's rabbitholes everywere

[01:30:54] brothchild so i'd look into the grub2 bootloader

[01:31:04] brothchild how do you drive that, lern the basics

[01:31:13] brothchild that way you can get some grounding

[01:31:21] brothchild not try to directly solve your problem

[01:31:24] brothchild sometimes that works

[01:32:05] brothchild my brain doesn't lurn too well

[01:32:07] brothchild same

[01:32:16] brothchild but i just been havin fun with the freedom to break everything

[01:32:21] brothchild and restore from backups

[01:32:24] brothchild for so many years

[01:32:25] brothchild yes

[01:32:43] brothchild i advise people to at least go through a phase

[01:32:52] brothchild of break it often and restore from backup often

[01:32:57] brothchild that encourages good habits

[01:33:06] brothchild mental hygiene about where your user data stays etc

[01:33:27] brothchild yes

[01:34:04] brothchild i have been cheetoless for months don't remind me

[01:34:41] brothchild a coupla midwest farmers invented them

[01:35:45] brothchild i have spent an evening researching cheeto-making machines

[01:36:08] brothchild you can get up to 500kw and several hundreds 1000s $$

[01:36:22] brothchild but also can make with small unit, maybe $500

[01:37:02] brothchild We will need to make our own cheetos after the apocalypse

[01:43:49] brothchild i kinda am that stupid though, when i think of how many times i've had to relearn bootloader issues

[01:44:05] brothchild so i can enjoy cheetos without shame

[01:44:35] brothchild but there's other brands i prefer

[01:44:52] brothchild hey linux-probe i wrote an eq-evener-outer for my podcast collection

[01:45:21] brothchild now the boomy bass podcasts are no longer annoying

[01:45:45] brothchild thing i wanted 20 years ago now llm can write for me, with some whip-cracking

[01:46:09] brothchild but you have to check their work

[01:46:20] brothchild it suggested the wrong filter

[01:48:03] brothchild i did that every day at work

[01:48:29] brothchild technically the iso name convention stems from cd-r images

[01:48:38] brothchild usually i named drive images .bin

[01:48:54] brothchild yes cardboardbox

[01:49:03] brothchild do not swap if= and of=

[01:49:14] brothchild i told someone about dd and told him to never swap if= and of=

[01:49:26] brothchild and he erase 20 years of his data like within a day

[01:49:31] brothchild of me telling him about dd

[01:50:46] brothchild so anyway just call it a drive image

[01:50:47] brothchild not an ISO

[01:50:57] brothchild the ISO is really an image of a CD or DVD

[01:51:17] brothchild referring to the iso9660 and related file formats used

[01:51:45] brothchild hard drives do not use the ISO9660 file ormat that CDs use

[01:51:56] brothchild so we don't refer to hard drive images as 'ISO's

[01:52:05] brothchild (just as an aside)

[01:52:43] brothchild i got the chance to do the CDR music for a mixed-mode game

[01:52:46] brothchild so that was fun

[01:52:54] brothchild that is a cool project End3r

[01:53:44] brothchild mu

[01:54:34] brothchild if you are not using CDR media or DVD etc, you're not using ISOs

[01:54:42] brothchild you're dealing with drive images

[01:55:38] brothchild you can call every animal 'animal' but i'll call a cat a 'cat', and not an animal

[02:00:20] brothchild i think this is unnecessary discssion i am sorry for mentioning this

[02:00:30] brothchild you can put the linux on the thing

[02:01:26] brothchild old guy blathering on about things that are just not relevant now

[02:01:36] brothchild i have to watch for that^

[02:02:10] brothchild i know someone who worked for amazon doing their infra

[02:02:28] brothchild he had stories...

[02:02:39] brothchild we'd argue about bitcoin all evening

[02:03:25] brothchild what would you do with 1000 btc

[02:04:42] brothchild well to put an image on a drive.. ok

[02:04:54] brothchild i think generally my procedure is, if i want to install a linux image

[02:05:02] brothchild i have that image downloaded

[02:05:20] brothchild i use dd to put the data on a partition, or on a device

[02:05:31] brothchild depending if it's a drive image or a partition image

[02:05:48] brothchild yes

[02:06:19] brothchild if i dd to a device (drive) then the bootloader is right where it needs to be

[02:06:33] brothchild what i can do then is...

[02:06:47] brothchild change the startup to continue from an installed linux on another drive

[02:06:58] brothchild that way i don't need to mess with the bootloader bits

[02:07:19] brothchild but rather change linux's init to point to my other drive

[02:07:25] brothchild but i havent done that in ages

[02:08:10] brothchild some SBCs have nice bootloaders configged to boot from a wide variety of partitions and things

[04:52:39] brothchild ++ \o/

[04:52:43] brothchild awesome End3r

[04:53:32] brothchild a lot of people should see that

[04:53:36] brothchild who can do publicity

[14:07:20] brothchild if you install Slackware 15 you don't need to get out of your chair to go to the bathroom anymore

[14:07:43] brothchild ^ true statement

[14:11:46] brothchild https://x0.at/0nuJ.ans pusher scientist (Unicode Art) 74 rows, 47 columns.

[14:35:05] brothchild i tink a lot of python folks have gone to docker

[14:35:40] brothchild here's an idea pythonistas -- consider copy+pasting functions instead of importing a library...

[15:15:47] brothchild i have an idea if someone wants to patent it $50:50

[15:58:53] brothchild i figured out why a terminal is a better use of screen real-estate than any gui program

[15:59:00] brothchild wb cardboardbox

[15:59:11] brothchild redstarcomrade: is your nickname a joke

[15:59:41] brothchild :)

[16:00:16] brothchild i heard that game mentioned a lot. is there a FOSS version of it?

[16:00:23] brothchild no i just like soup

[16:00:34] brothchild k now i am interested

[16:01:07] brothchild i did do a stint in finance too

[16:01:09] brothchild grmbl

[16:01:27] brothchild it was nice when the numbers were correct. good autist job really.

[16:01:29] brothchild ty!

[16:01:54] brothchild it was very very bad when i made mistakes

[16:02:15] brothchild "your excel error cost us $40k this month" is something you don't want to hear

[16:02:36] brothchild that's the plan man

[16:02:53] brothchild i hate how so much of finance is just rules compliance now

[16:03:05] brothchild we're not doing real work, as much as busywork

[16:03:08] brothchild it's everywere now

[16:03:16] brothchild ok i gotta check out cncet.org

[16:04:09] brothchild wow 1313 players online, if true impressive

[16:06:37] brothchild i don't like how the troops move right over cliffs as if they were flat

[16:08:29] brothchild wish i could time machine myself to be about 16 years old, to try this and see if it's fun

[16:08:35] brothchild now all i see is mechanics

[16:09:24] brothchild i did a Dune2000 port, is that similar in mechanics to C&C ?

[16:14:31] brothchild k

[16:14:38] brothchild maybe you know some things i am curious about

[16:14:41] brothchild sec

[16:43:56] brothchild ah yes now i remember ave you played "Advance Wars" on game boy

[16:44:38] brothchild there's a nice 'focus' to GBA

[16:44:50] brothchild not too big, everyting

[16:44:56] brothchild bad networking tho

[17:36:04] brothchild is benis a utility

[17:41:28] brothchild it shoul dbe

[17:41:41] brothchild how about a system monitor

[17:41:58] brothchild no package named 'benis'

[18:09:08] brothchild broadband evaluative new information service

[19:25:48] brothchild 4588 Historical_Controversies_Episode_17.mp3 196 Historical_Controversies_Episode_17.opus 23x compression, WITH quality improvement. https://x0.at/g97I.mp3 ## https://x0.at/E0hO.opus

[19:29:29] brothchild it was working... but then i improved it :/

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