linux Linux What was your first experience using Linux? How old were you? Stick around or did you go back to windows before eventually circling back to Linux?
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  • mysterc mysterc 1 year ago 100%

    My very first experience with Linux was in probably 1993 or so. I ran a dial-up BBS with a Usenet feed and a friend UUCP'd me the first few floppies of slackware to try. I don't remember getting very far but I had used OS/9 earlier on my Coco 3, so the shell was pretty familiar.

    For actual work, about a year later I started working for a dial-up ISP and my workstation was a Linux box connected via Serial PPP to a Sun pizzabox.

    I've used Linux on and off as a Desktop over the years but always maintained at least one server. In my current jobs there is a mix of Linux and FreeBSD servers I run on a Linux based virtualization platform.

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  • retrocomputing retrocomputing What was the first modem you ever had? How fast was it?
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  • mysterc mysterc 1 year ago 100%

    It was a Radio Shack 300 baud modem. A little googling seems to indicate is would likely have been a Tandy DCM-3 “Direct Connect” (as opposed to acoustic coupler) modem.

    It was in-line between the wall and a phone so you would pick up the phone, dial the number, head the modem tone, press a red button on the top of the modem and hang up the phone.

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  • ps5 PlayStation 5 (PS5) - [WE'VE MOVED TO LEMMY.WORLD/C/PS5] DualSense Edge already broken after 2 weeks?
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  • mysterc mysterc 1 year ago 100%

    For that price, it should be flawless, I would exchange it.

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  • ps5 PlayStation 5 (PS5) - [WE'VE MOVED TO LEMMY.WORLD/C/PS5] Hi-Fi Rush gets two new modes and more in July's Arcade Challenge update
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  • mysterc mysterc 1 year ago 100%

    No worries, I was hoping for a surprise port :)

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  • ps5 PlayStation 5 (PS5) - [WE'VE MOVED TO LEMMY.WORLD/C/PS5] Hi-Fi Rush gets two new modes and more in July's Arcade Challenge update
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  • mysterc mysterc 1 year ago 100%

    Did I miss something? Hi-Fi Rush is a PC/Xbox exclusive and considering that the studio is owned by Microsoft, it's unlikely to come to other platforms.

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  • oldtaku
    Vintage fans of Anime mysterc 1 year ago 100%
    AnimEigo to start Macross 2 OVA Series Kickstarter later this summer https://twitter.com/AnimEigo/status/1665675747195867136

    Last year it was announced that several of the previously released (but long out of print) and all (or almost all) of the previously unreleased in the US would be parceled out to a few different companies. AnimEigo got the rights to Macross 2 Lovers Again and will kickstart the release this summer. I'm assuming it will be as filled with extras as their usual releases.

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    oldtaku Vintage fans of Anime Welcome, please introduce yourself!
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  • mysterc mysterc 1 year ago 0%

    Here's my intro.

    The first anime I remember seeing on TV was Star Blazers in the late 70s, but the first one I would fight to watch (because it was up against Days of our Lives, which my sister was addicted to) was Robotech.

    I knew it was Japanese in origin but I didn't realize the extent to which it was bowdlerized at the time (to be fair, I was 9 or so).

    My first subtitled anime experience was a friend in high school giving me copies of Macross DYRL and Castle of Cagliostro on VHS and it was, frankly, mindblowing.

    My first commercial anime purchase as tape 1 of Bubblegum Crisis for like $40 for 45 minutes. Since $40 was 10 hours of pay at the time, I never bought the rest of the show until DVD sets.

    My first Con was anime expo 93 in Oakland (I think, I did go to a con in San Jose but I can't remember if it was AX92, Anime America 93 or 94).

    I worked as a film projectionist at AX for a couple of years (we got to do the world premiere of Memories, that was fun) and then I worked security for another 2 years after AX moved and didn't have a film theater anymore.

    About 15 years ago my personal and professional collided and I was hired by one of the original anime/manga distributors in the US and am currently their director of IT.

    It's been a long, strange, trip watching anime go from the thing you got teased for to having star athletes do poses from their favorite shonen on the field.

    It may be a little "get off my lawn"-y but I still love the older stuff compared to most of the new. Give me hand painted cells over painted backgrounds, shot on film, over 3dcg any day of the week.

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  • oldtaku
    Vintage fans of Anime mysterc 1 year ago 100%
    Welcome, please introduce yourself!

    Hello and welcome! Please make yourself at home and talk about your favorite old anime and manga. If you know what rec.arts.anime was, you'll feel right at home. If you're up for it, reply here with a brief introduction including early anime memories and where you are today.

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    gaming Gaming What daily games, like Wordle, do you play regularly?
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  • mysterc mysterc 1 year ago 100%

    Quordle (both standard and sequential) Foximax Chronophoto

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