#TIL that, according to Windows 10, the definition of "networking" in "Safe Mode with Networking" only includes wired connections... Because most laptops are obviously rack mounted and hardwired... 🙄
Geek, coder, gamer, tinkerer, husband, father, system admin, web developer, and American cyborg, though not necessarily in that order. Creator of Mythic Wars (card game).
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#TIL that, according to Windows 10, the definition of "networking" in "Safe Mode with Networking" only includes wired connections... Because most laptops are obviously rack mounted and hardwired... 🙄
#TIL that someone made a film adaptation of Jack Chick's "Dark Dungeon" tract, and it premiered at GenCon 2014: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Dungeons_(film)
#games #rpg #DnD
#TIL the Internet Archive hosts #C64 games, too... And they've got some real classics in their collection. https://archive.org/details/softwarelibrary_c64
#TIL that `journalctl` has it's own clean-up flags (`--vacuum-size=BYTES`, `--vacuum-files=INT`, `--vacuum-time=TIME`). after using them, I cut the WonderDome's journal storage space in a third (and made it way faster when parsing the logs). #Linux #Ubuntu #sysadmin
HT https://askubuntu.com/questions/1012912/systemd-logs-journalctl-are-too-large-and-slow
#TIL you can run #Win95 in a #browser window.
I also learned that I still suck at #Minesweeper. :(
#TIL my #PS3 plays #PS1 discs.
Time for some Battle Arena Toshinden 3!
#games #videogames
#TIL about Dual_EC_DRBG - the "cryptographically secure" algorithm that was pushed by #NIST and (allegedly) backdoored by the #NSA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
#TIL that there's a medieval-fantasy version of the Hulk called Greenskyn Smashtroll.
And he has a surprisingly cute Lego Minifig.
