there is this running gag that furries are mostly made up of computer geeks who are in rather advanced positions within different digital fields

The joke I heard is that a plane going to a furry convention crashing would cripple the IT industry.

Not true, some of them want to raise goats.

It’s not just the drive letter mapping, Wine doesn’t make any attempt to secure software.

You can run Wine inside an actual security solution.

Yeah, Wine is not a secure container. Don’t count on it for security.

sometimes USB drives won’t mount after a kernel update if I don’t restart.

Well yes, you’ve removed the running kernel from disk. It’s not going to be able to load any drivers that weren’t already loaded.

If you set file search to filenames only instead of filenames and contents, it should be massively faster and searching for files by name will still work.

Mostly that the malware has a much higher chance of escaping containment on a Windows install, because it’s designed to attack Windows.

Looks like a Gentoo install. Set the hard disk up ready for use, put some Gentoo files on it, switch to running from the hard disk instead of the install CD or USB stick, download more Gentoo stuff, compile and install a Linux kernel.

Assuming you’re not talking about the one with three languages and a continue button, if you don’t get that one I can’t really help you.

Those do actually go down. Hospitals have to be evacuated after an earthquake, airports force all aircraft to divert or the grid has the sort of outage that gets it’s own Wikipedia page and needs to be black started.

I hope I am too, but I just looked at what a CPU, motherboard and RAM upgrade would cost and it looks like this system will be old enough to start high school by the time I replace it.

And the system after that? If I buy new in 2030, when will the one after that be? 2045?

Now it’s starting to look like upgrades are just a thing of the past and this is going to be my forever machine.

I upgraded to 64GB RAM a year or so ago which I didn’t really need, but it was cheap so why not.

How things have changed.

You can dig as deep as you care to, all the way down to source code. And if you can’t read code, you can learn to. If you don’t want to spend the time, that’s completely reasonable. But it’s your choice.

On DOS you could also have fun by replacing prompt $p$g with prompt {whatever text you want instead of c:}

There’s also modern CPU structure, where there might be a performance hit if you involve cores that are attached to a different cache or don’t have direct access to memory. Threadripper ran into that sort of thing.

Legend has it that they moved to “Press a key to continue” because then people would just press A, which would work.

I stand by my description of him: “That guy in Youtube thumbnails who smiles with his teeth but not his eyes.”

I loved the way people were calling it the X Bone from halfway through the release announcement.

You and the rest of the internet, that’s why they shut down that Discord server.

In my experience, badly.