MaddieM4

Back on my bullshit with OpenBSD, after a Buckminster Fuller-esque nap. I'll probably need to figure out how to SSH into this QEMU VM, because for whatever reason, the framebuffer is hurting my eyes. Maybe I'm getting old! Using my own terminal would be greatly preferred.

But I'm already in love with the mail system in a way I've never felt before. On Linux, email always felt arcane, opaque, and to be avoided - I hosted my own a long time ago in the Roaming Initiative days, and hated it badly. And of course, we've all seen `sudo` threaten "I'm emailing the administrator about this!" with no clue where THAT email went to.

On OpenBSD, mail is one of the first things used to introduce the system, and it's simple and clean and straightforward, and it's treated as "just a basic thing all users deserve to have working out of the box."

#openbsd79 #openbsd

Jun 7 at 5:41amWeb
Show threadMaddieM42d ago

To be fair, I wouldn't be totally shocked to find out that both platforms had similar mail systems under the hood, and it's just that only one of them took the time to demystify system mail up-front.

I did check my host, CachyOS, to see what was in /var/mail, and the answer out of the box is... nothing! The user doesn't get a mail file in a default setup.

Show threadSaupreiss #Präparat500 👅🥚🥚2d ago

@MaddieM4

Indeed, it’s possible to run the OpenBSD Mail System on Linux.
But it’s its own.

Show threadHey Gus2d ago

@MaddieM4 I hate email and have always hated email and probably will
forever hate email. However the way you've written this makes me want to learn about BSD.

I doubt I will actually make time to do that but it was well written and made me laugh a bit.

Show threadMaddieM42d ago

@elebertus Now that I have a good enough email experience, I will probably like it enough to get deep in the weeds, which will loop me around to hating it again 😂

Also I finally figured out what I needed to do for the framebuffer problem! I needed the flags `-display curses` to use my existing terminal to show an interactive VGA display. It's sooo much easier on my eyes.

Show threadHey Gus2d ago

@MaddieM4 sorry, i probably also shouldn't have been overly negative when you were finding actual joy about this. Also yes, probably short term joy haha

The background and foreground colors also look nice and seem low fatigue too.

Ok I see Shyvana and Katarina, are you a league fan in some capacity?

Show threadMaddieM42d ago

@elebertus Yes! Which isn't to say I'm good at the game, or have been able to play it for awhile thanks to some anti-cheat decisions made by Riot Games, and being a Linux user.

I'm primarily in it for the lore, and the game I honestly spent the most time in was Legends of Runeterra, their card game. I haven't played that in a minute, because it's a bit small on phones, and again, Riot doesn't like my desktop choices. But I love the spell energy system, and I actually had a very powerful Shyvana deck once. It's a shame that they went through spell speed creep, because slow-speed whackers like Ledros used carry a lot more weight. A lot of the time, even "Fast" feels to slow in an Instants meta.

It can be kind of exhausting to be a FOSS girl with this special interest, lemme tell ya. But it means I watch a decent amount of Zwag, Polypuff, Pokerick and Pianta to unwind. Just checked on Pianta actually. He's up to Quinn in one life hero, apparently. That's concerning 😅

Show threadHey Gus1d ago

@MaddieM4 I had played a lot many years ago, like around 2012/2013 but haven't touched it in forever.

I still remember when Shyvana was released and jingling with her. Top lane was fun too but she would get hard countered by Jax and I want to say Maokai, which were meta picks for top.

I never really got into the TCG but I am generally not a huge fan of that type of game.

I used to watch a lot of league streamers, probably more than I played, so I get that for sure.

Did you watch Arcane? It looks really cool but I haven't ever watched it.

Show threadMaddieM41d ago

@elebertus I watched Season 1, and other than a few small bits of embarrassing both-sides-ism in the politics (not as bad as I expected given Riot's track record. *cough* Sylas *cough*), I loved it! Excellent way to flesh out the characters and take them in slightly non-canon directions. It's very funny to see Heimerdinger acting as a voice of caution.

Unfortunately, in the gap between seasons, I had to end my Netflix subscription for financial reasons, so I didn't get to watch S2 when it was fresh. By the time I had access to S2, the reviews were... not great. Apparently Caitlyn has some kind of dictator arc because she gets romantically rejected, or something, and I just had no motivation to watch the characters get done dirty like that, so I still haven't watched it. I probably will someday.

It's just as well that I've lost the hype for the show. I was very bad at recommending it to people. My brain would freeze up and emphasize the wrong things, like bits of game stuff that they snuck in.

Show threadHey Gus1d ago

@MaddieM4 caitlyn as a dictator lol

I used to know the lore fairly well but really did not keep up on it. I tried watching part of S1 and just couldn't really get into it. Felt like I really just didn't get it despite knowing the lore, characters, etc, enough to understand their conflicts and alliances mostly.

Still a bit crazy to see how popular league is all these years later. Even with a reasonably well liked show outside of game fans even.

Show threadMaddieM41d ago
@elebertus hehe yeah, it does happen sometimes though. I mean the other franchise I've been this intensely attached to was TF2, after all.
Show threadHey Gus1d ago
@MaddieM4 now that's definitely a game I'm still surprised has tournaments and generally a pretty good sized player base.
Show threadDavid Leadbeater2d ago
@MaddieM4 if you’re using pure qemu maybe qemu -display curses is easier than ssh? I use that all the time, even works for silly things like running MS-DOS over SSH…
Show threadMaddieM42d ago
@dgl That is, indeed, what I eventually figured out! It's working out great 😁