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[Hackaday] Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!

From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 05:48:43 2025

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes! <https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/>

Impressive & scary.
--
3. Hitchhiker 1: (25) "The point is, you see," said Ford, "that there
is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad.
You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later."
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From Andrew Singleton@singletona082@ctrl-c.club to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 02:28:03 2025

Something...something...Bloat I guess. Thought doom on a PDF was
rediculous (though impressive.)

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 05:48:43 +0042
yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> wrote:

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes! <https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/>

Impressive & scary.

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From Caden Kray@ck1998@yahoo.com to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 09:55:32 2025

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes! <https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/>

Impressive & scary.

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png
--
:)
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From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 13:53:22 2025

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> wrote:

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png

Drop it as issue or PR?
--
I do not bite, I just want to play.
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From keyboardan@keyboardan@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 14:39:23 2025

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> writes:

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
<https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/>

Impressive & scary.

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png

Drop it as issue or PR.
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From Caden Kray@ck1998@yahoo.com to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 13:12:12 2025

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> wrote:

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png

Drop it as issue or PR?

Honestly, I really don't know if you're serious. I'd rather take it as
a joke. :)
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From Caden Kray@ck1998@yahoo.com to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 13:12:44 2025

keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> writes:

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> writes:

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
<https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/>

Impressive & scary.

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png

Drop it as issue or PR.

Please don't tell me that you both wrote the same thing by chance.
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From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 17:03:04 2025

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> wrote:

keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> writes:

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> writes:

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
<https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/> >>>>
Impressive & scary.

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png

Drop it as issue or PR.

Please don't tell me that you both wrote the same thing by chance.

I won't.
--
I do not bite, I just want to play.
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From keyboardan@keyboardan@tilde.club to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 16:44:52 2025

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> writes:

keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> writes:

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> writes:

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
<https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/> >>>>
Impressive & scary.

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png

Drop it as issue or PR.

Please don't tell me that you both wrote the same thing by chance.

I will.
--
Running Free Software on a proprietary hardware is like running Nuclear
Energy on a car, you can do it... if you change the car.
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From yeti@yeti@tilde.institute to tilde.meta on Tue Feb 11 18:05:09 2025

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> wrote:

keyboardan <keyboardan@tilde.club> writes:

Caden Kray <ck1998@yahoo.com> writes:

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

Hackaday
Nice PDF, But Can It Run Linux? Yikes!
<https://hackaday.com/2025/02/10/nice-pdf-but-can-it-run-linux-yikes/> >>>>
Impressive & scary.

Any plans for supporting my video card? https://0x0.st/8ZuR.png

Drop it as issue or PR.

Please don't tell me that you both wrote the same thing by chance.

I'll now ignore this subtopic.

IMO we're just getting trolled and I've things to do that are more
important than discussing this.
--
I do not bite, I just want to play.
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