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"I had to reboot my car charger to make it work again" and other phrases that shouldn’t make sense but they do.

#cursedcomputing

People complain if I put Microsoft Bob on #macos9, or when I destroy a #retrocomputing DVD drive. But out there in the real world people are building things like this and nobody bats an eye.

That's right, a Linux distro where NodeJS is the entire userland. And they call it "lightweight"... compared to...?!?!

"thanks" @nixCraft for making me aware of this.

https://github.com/NodeOS/NodeOS

#cursed #cursedcomputing

I wounder if we'll soon see #IE11 for #Linux as peak #CursedComputing sooner than later...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoyQeUzbEU
via @ncommander

I wounder if we'll soon see #IE11 for #Linux as peak #CursedComputing sooner than later...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AoyQeUzbEU
via @ncommander

So it turns out you can monitor Windows hosts from Netdata just fine, provided you just use the windows prometheus exporter, and tell another agent on some unix system on the network to fetch that as jobs, and tag them as Virtual Nodes so they show up as their own machine in the dashboard.

It is: a bit cursed, but also nice.

#netdata #WindowsServer #CursedComputing

Today I learned that dependency manage in Perl using a floating point numbers to compare version strings

I'm still processing the implications of this failure message, but I feel the need to scream into the void.

EDIT: Turns out its a bit more sane than that, mark Gardner explains it here: https://social.sdf.org/@mjgardner/110495135782384907

#cursedcomputing #perl

So, this is how today ends, with Solaris 7 installed with cute anime girl vtuber avatar. Needless to say, fun #Retrocompting #cursedcomputing sorta day.