#greybeards — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #greybeards, aggregated by home.social.
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No, I will not be shamed by #unix #greybeards into using #vim or #emacs for all of my text editing needs. Yes, they have a lot of good features, but I'm just too used to the #cua keybindings to completely rewrite my muscle memory. #obsidian and #kate do 99% of what I need text editors to do. Although, that #orgmode looks a lot more functional than straight #markdown ... I wish I had stayed in the CS program back in college; we used emacs all the time, I'd have learned all the M-x codes by now.
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#GreyBeards #Linux
It's not a beard, it's a shabang!#!🧔
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Headline Act – Greybeards
Another Headline Act as we work our way towards the end of January and further into 2025. This bunch really do rock, and hail from... well, we'll let them tell you!
Simple things first – where are you from?
We hail from Gävle, Sweden! A medium sized coastal city 2 hours from Stockholm. And we are and have always been I (Olle), Niklas, Ingemar and Simon and we’re chi
https://www.moshville.co.uk/misc/2025/01/headline-act-greybeards/
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Also, an early trend in my follows due to my bio, I think: I attract oddball #leftist techies. A lot of fellow #nix #greybeards who #homebrew in that list. Good stuff.
Oh and #grammar nerds.
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@jimray
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CW: OpenVMS for x86… for hobbyists!
So, you used to run VMS on VAX, then OpenVMS on Alpha and now you miss your good ol' VMS? Get a PC and run OpenVMS for x86 with a hobbyist license!¹
Quoting directly from the site above:
OpenVMS x86 is now available for (most) hobbyists! Almost a year after the official release² most hobbyists can now login to the Service Portal³ to download their copy of OpenVMS 9.2 for x86, X86E921OE.ZIP and the PAK (license) files (x86community-20240401.zip), valid until April 2024.
#OpenVMS #VMS #RetroComputing #Greybeards #DEC #DigitalEquipmentCorporation
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¹ https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_is_finally_available_for_hobbyists.html
² https://raymii.org/s/blog/OpenVMS_9.2_for_x86_will_be_released_tomorrow.html
³ https://sp.vmssoftware.com/ -
Am I the only veteran tech guy who now dreams about buying a farm and growing #OpenSource seeds to make a living? Far away from the next fad? Inviting young people to help and learn whatever wisdom we veterans can share? As a community of #GreyBeards with lots of knowledge in a lot of areas? :) (where GreyBeards is just a moniker for people with a lot of knowledge and experience, regardless of gender or identification)
