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 I hate how #ifup blocks #networkmanager from using device and sometimes not establishing connecti... 
 @3d7e45da You can change that. In /etc/network/interfaces just have the loopback, nothing else. In NetworkManager.conf remove the ifupdown plugin and use only NM's native keyfiles. Reboot. Don't use the "ifup/ifdown" commands anymore, use proper "nmcli con up/down". 
 @578539b0 Haha yes! I'm actually more familiar with it from the sequel Martian Memorandum, and from Countdown made on the same engine. 
 nostr:npub1v6l3r9snezz0g673xzefwkw269hhzsw6neeldjusfwaa65dpvyzq59hqs5 ooch, big problems there fo... 
 @b4b32f6d Yeah I don't agree with everything on that page either. I'm still using regular include guards like it's 1973. 
 My favourite manual page ever, Mean Streets tells you to hook your PC speaker up to your hi-fi system to hear that sweet Access Software RealSound™ #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #MSDOS

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 Hey, #cprogramming peeps, did pragma once become non-evil at some point? 
 @b4b32f6d To some people, yes: https://matt.sh/howto-c 
 XCOM: Terror from the Deep is basically the same game as XCOM: Enemy Unknown, only much harder an... 
 @8b6472f9 I love how the original X-Com had the bug where it reverted to Easy after the first Battlescape, so everyone thought it was "too easy" not realising they were playing on lowest difficulty. For TFTD they ramped up the difficulty, and golly was it harder lol 
 nostr:npub1v6l3r9snezz0g673xzefwkw269hhzsw6neeldjusfwaa65dpvyzq59hqs5 mixing distro repos doesn't... 
 @34a949f1 It isn't mixing distro repos. Flatpak applications are contained within their own filesystem using the same Linux namespace technology as containers. Whether you get the Flatpak application from Flathub's flatpakrepo or Fedora's flatpakrepo has absolutely no effect on the underlying host distro. 
 So #firefox in #debian repositories is either ESR on Stable or latest in Sid, but nothing in Test... 
 @34a949f1 I also don't like the Firefox situation on native Debian. You can run the latest from Flathub Flatpak repo or from Fedora's Flatpak repo. Flathub also has LibreWolf if you'd prefer a privacy-oriented Firefox spin. 
 #3dprinting, #cad, maybe a #scicomm question - how do you, personally, describe 3d modelling to a... 
 @bdade073 Constructive Solid Geometry. Imagine all you have is squares and circles. You can make boxes or spheres or cones. You can add a shape, wrap two shapes in a solid sheet, and you can take a shape out like a slice out of a cake. Repeat that until you have the final shape you want. That's the sort of modelling a practical print like a plumbing part probably needs to be made with. My aircon service guy also 3D models and prints his own components. 
 @9ca62b72 What do you do with it? I find setting up multiple DOSBox C drives works well for me. One for games, one for each various coding environment, etc. I switch them with a batch file menu, and I've used LaunchBox to do the same. 
 There are few things more satisfying than a data structure and algorithm implementation which remove all extra cruft and get right to the heart off the pattern, but is also so well written as to be reusable anywhere. #programming #datastructures #algorithms 
 nostr:npub1v6l3r9snezz0g673xzefwkw269hhzsw6neeldjusfwaa65dpvyzq59hqs5 Apparently it's quite a bit... 
 @256f7651 I'd love to see the earlier versions. I wonder if the author still has them? I'll ask him 
 Blown away by "Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021" - a DOS 4X game with text-based GUI which pre-dates Master of Orion by 6 years! #RetroGaming #MSDOS #Anacreon #MasterOfOrion

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 TIL @a43b05d5 has a podcast about video game history with over a hundred episodes. This will keep me occupied for a while! #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #MSDOS #podcast 

https://gamehistory.org/the-video-game-history-hour/ 
 So has anybody ever tried this "internet" thing? #RetroComputing #MSDOS #Windows95 #VintageComputing #internet

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