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@nixCraft Oh, this'd be the same AT&T that turned 911 service off in 7 states in February.

Hard to be sympathetic.

@nixCraft Fraud! It is Great for fraud!

@nixCraft On a complete side note, I play a Real Musical Instrument that will still work when the lights go out. Some of my peers will stop making music when that happens, 'cause their tools will stop working.

@nixCraft Dang it. A long time ago I gave a talk on the wonders of sox(1). I had a shell script that would use it to play happy birthday, but I can't find it now.

@nixCraft And then you will spend another day or so excoriating yourself for not coming up with the solution sooner.

@arstechnica Yeah, still No. In America, TV Watches YOU!

@nixCraft C! The C Programming Language ( Bell Labs, 1978) Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie Said It, I Believe It, THAT SETTLES IT!!

I later converted over to2nd Edition (1988), which brought some welcome refinements to the language (Prototyping! Variable declarations not at the top of the function!).

It's still my Milk Tongue, although I code a lot of Python and, more recently, Lua.

@arstechnica What could Possibly Go Wrong?

@nixCraft Wat? Coded professionally for many years, still enjoying it on a hobbiest basis today. On a Linux desktop.

@arstechnica Oof. After many years of not owning a TV, I inherited a pre-2010 model from my mom. It works great hooked up to an Amazon Stick and has no internet capability. I reckon when it dies I'll just buy a nice big monitor.

@nixCraft Oof. Story of my life.

@nixCraft 👍

@nixCraft Oof. I run KDE Plasma at home 'cause it's so pretty and fun. But I use XFCE at work for its simplicity, small size, and lack of distracting entertainments.

@nixCraft My machines either lack a built in camera or have a hardware switch to disable it ( yay https://frame.work )

@nixCraft A lovely Sanyo 555 with dual floppy drives. Compiling a C program took three floppy swaps. I mostly wrote 8088 assembly on it. The editor, assembler, and linker could all fit on one drive.

@nixCraft Or drunk. I have an ironclad rule: no devvin' after the evening beer. Learned by bitter experience.

@nixCraft Got me in one ( Debian user )

@nixCraft I won't drive a car with the hood welded shut.

@nixCraft document. Document. DOCUMENT. Informally as necessary, make sure to talk about failure modes as well as Happy Path.

@nixCraft CLI. SO much easier. And I type =~80 WPM.