Post B1M2gh8SjKR6caAI2C by drfyzziks@makervine.net
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 (DIR) Post #B1M2gh8SjKR6caAI2C by drfyzziks@makervine.net
       2025-12-17T20:06:25Z
       
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       Whenever I see a “rice my Arch #Linux w/hyprland” video, I’m like:You think that’s badass? You should’ve tried getting X11 running on a Linux machine in the mid-90s. You needed your monitor & video card manuals & a calculator (seriously) so you could calculate “modelines” for your X11 config file.If you got the math wrong you’d fry your monitor by driving it at too high a frequency (back then nearly all monitors were fixed-frequency).Typing “startx” for the first time was *so* stressful.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1SVg6ZN0omFIjKucy by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2025-12-21T02:12:00Z
       
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       @drfyzziks I remember all too well and not fondly.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1SWn2Evblxfr0dw92 by lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me
       2025-12-21T02:24:21.688716Z
       
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       @drfyzziks Yeah, modelines is how to make an old unix nerd twitch/shudder.