Posts by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
(DIR) Post #B1FS6fENZUS4zVh1Ga by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-14T18:19:59Z
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Tonight's stupid endeavour: can HP-UX 11i v1 connect to a much mor revent consumer network printer and print something?Stick around to find out!
(DIR) Post #B1FS6hDOC8qf91FG08 by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-14T18:20:25Z
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And I truly mean "stick around" because booting an HP c8000 takes like 15 minutes.
(DIR) Post #B1FS6rcDWgeNOuwE5Y by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-14T18:43:05Z
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Okay this is going to take some work.This is now the most important thing in my life aside from my wife and kids.
(DIR) Post #B1RKn1oHoRsBugS5E8 by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-20T12:24:55Z
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I hope my PCIe NVME adapters arrive before Christmas. I bought them for one of my dual POWER9 workstations - it's been collecting dust for a while but I want to set it up again. Going to try FreeBSD, and hope that it supports the AMD Radeon Pro w5500 I bought for it.It's going to be a modern-ish UNIX workstation.
(DIR) Post #B1RKpwCz60a9PPOLiK by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-20T12:35:41Z
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@selea I've had a Talos 2 and a Blackbird for a few years now.
(DIR) Post #B1V2nIWaeBS3D4ze7s by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-22T01:01:43Z
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For people who with a deep disdain for web-based email, the Linux desktop is not in a great place. Evolution and Kmail are creaking under their own weight (groupware is so 2003), Geary is dead, Thunderbird is not native and looks and feels like it, Claws/Sylpheed/Balsa are relics, and that's it.It's clear people aren't lining up to develop email clients when the paths of least resistance are web-based email and Thunderbird, but I still think both KDE and GNOME are missing a core, focused, user-friendly email application. I wish I could program.
(DIR) Post #B1bphKRsdrdc8sKj6O by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-25T13:56:50Z
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A very happy HP-UXmas to everyone. For next year, I hope I get to level up my HP-UX status to 11i v2 or v3 - Itanium needs to enter my life. My body is able and willing.
(DIR) Post #B1gKqj8c5k6eX37eV6 by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-27T17:34:27Z
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If you say "tragedy of the Commons" unironically I'm going to block you. Please do some research on this topic so you, too, can discover that it's a bunch of bollocks that has no basis in history or science.
(DIR) Post #B1gKqqzgsniqth0dhg by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2025-12-27T17:38:37Z
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You know what? In general it's a good idea to just... Challenge everything, especially things posited as "truths" or "defaults", and especially especially when they're often said by straight white males, and especially especially especially when they're said by straight white males in tech.People like me!Usually you'll discover the thing you assumed was a generally agreed upon concept is just... Racist bullshit, rich people justifying the mass exploitation of workers/the poor, some antiquated bullshit interpreted wrong by dipshits, or any combination thereof.
(DIR) Post #B1uR92crh6VQ7hpMtU by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-03T13:27:52Z
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what if your butthole had a tongue
(DIR) Post #B20TnQD8n3nbi9wB7Y by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-06T08:43:16Z
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I'm not going to write about GNOME and Mozilla changing a stupid fucking default setting.I fucking despise the Linux "community".
(DIR) Post #B21GB3lfMJGhuLjud6 by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-06T20:21:48Z
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middle-click to paste is now *checks notes* part of the culture war
(DIR) Post #B2DlCosv5pvOnuyFJg by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-12T21:07:56Z
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BREAKING: GNOME and KDE agree to remove letter X from desktop Linu
(DIR) Post #B2EUAtZzAClCiqZSQS by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-12T18:23:07Z
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Both KDE and GNOME provide a user experience that's so vastly superior to Windows and macOS that the tech media doesn't know what to do or say anymore. They're still holding on to their stale, early 2000s narratives about desktop Linux, incapable of adjusting their preconceived notions to the reality of today.The reality that both Windows and macOS have become unusable trashfires while KDE and GNOME left them in the dust years ago and continue to improve by leaps and bounds every year just does not compute for these people.
(DIR) Post #B2HXODYD6XEFlPfG2S by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-14T15:26:16Z
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Sounds scary!https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/never-before-seen-linux-malware-is-far-more-advanced-than-typical/However, warning signs this is sensationliased scaremongering:Published by Ars Technica.Ars does not mention anything about how this scary malware is supposed to infect machines.The researchers' blog post does not mention anything about how this scary malware is supposed to infect machines.The underlying "research paper" does not mention anything about how this scary malware is supposed to infect machines.The report is from a "security company" who just so happens to sell a product that mitigates this scary malware that doesn't seem to have a way to infect machines.🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
(DIR) Post #B2HXOVFNJIrEeCzTBA by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-14T15:29:36Z
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Real security issues are discovered and reported by trans people hacking away on a 15 year old ThinkPad running NixOS - not by antivirus peddlers wearing suits.The fact the tech press refuses to stop posting trash like this is sickening.
(DIR) Post #B2RwWE39IPW5nbCV1s by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-19T17:26:12Z
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All the help I'm getting with this silly HP-UX OSNews thing warms my cold heart. Whether it's @hp writing the converter program, or all the lovely people giving advice and answers to my basic bitch questions - I'm thankful to all of you. :blob_cat_heart:
(DIR) Post #B2ZkgGjaWdDApqkl7Y by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-23T07:07:17Z
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@catsalad noooo dont give in to despair
(DIR) Post #B2ZklfvCJ6Y6OrlGE4 by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-16T23:20:36Z
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My opinion of you drops considerably if you use "AI".¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(DIR) Post #B2ryqtruUbyqcmQxRQ by thomholwerda@exquisite.social
2026-01-30T19:18:25Z
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The Dutch version of the BBC (very simply put) has started consistently stating in every article about Trump that he has a history of lying and saying nonsense. It's really satisfying."President Trump, who often lies, said that..."It's a small thing, but it cheers me up.