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Username: Not_Oles
Email: Not_ByrfOles@zrg@metalvps.com
Joined: January 2020
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@slowservers Thanks for the detailed reply! Now I know why you switched! 🤠

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Hi @cmeerw!

In my Chromebook's Linux container's servers directory, each provider has its own subdirectory, inside of which each server has its own directory.

The indiv…

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Yet another successful rebuild of NetBSD-current! :star:

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chronos@penguin:~/2026/linveo$ `head -n 1 login`
Last login: Fri Feb 20 21:44:58 2026 from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

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Friendly greetings!

As people opine in other threads about the pros and cons of $7 yearly VPSes, I wanted to bounce this thread, yet again, to remind everyone about the generosity of …

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The last few days, and this morning, the bougainvilleas here have been visited by several of the most amazingly bright, solid yellow colored butterflies! Maybe the butterflies are of the Cloudless Su…

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> @vyas said:
> Wordtsar:
>
> https://wordtsar.ca/
>
> AGPL … hmmm
>
> @Not_Oles san might nod in approval. Classic UI, te…

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Hi @vyas!

Haha, I don't think I ever tried Wordstar. I heard that it has dot commands somewhat like troff.

I pretty much skipped Windows, going from DOS WordPerfect to …

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> [@Ympker said](/discussion/comment/228742/#Comment_228742): On topic: New day, new pic. In another coffee shop this time. I like this coffee here more than McD's This is one of my daily morning…

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roff

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troff

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@WSS Glad you are feeling better!

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@Ympker

Thanks for this thread! Great idea! <3

I saw your McCafé coffee photo! There is a McDonalds here, on the US side of the border, just a couple blocks beyond t…

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Here is what might be the beginning of a typical Winter day for me. . . .

First, the bougainvillea, photo from 2023, but just like today, beautiful! Very gentle in the morning's diffus…

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Yaaay!!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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@imok Doesn't @ehab have a [thread](https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/3265/bored-then-post-your-best-gifs-imgs-youtubes#latest) explicitly for you?

Friendly greetings from Mexico! :)

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Today's rebuild of NetBSD-current is now running!

As mentioned at https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/228322/#Comment_228322 today's rebuild has a fix for a bug found by LES' e…

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@cmeerw

My Linveo NetBSD-current VPS is now rebuilding with patches fixing the ftp bug you found!

From https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=59865 …

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"Fear and Loathing on the UNIX Trail -- Confessions of a Berkeley system mole."; Doug Merritt with Ken Arnold and Bob Toxen; Unix Review, Jan 1985

http://www.verysecurelinux.com/85jan.…

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I recently was looking at the history of compilers (for example, [`pcc`](https://marc.info/?l=pcc-list&m=174928386332283&w=2)) and the [`make` and `bmake`](https://www.crufty.net/help/sjg/bma…

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobile_Aurora

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Hey @cmeerw!

Friendly greetings!

If you do not mind, I can't resist asking why so many tmux windows!? You must be having fun! :) Want to share a little about what's up?…

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@backtogeek @Ympker Brave browser has been working okay on my cheap Motorola Android phone.

Brave has a pop-up too often asking how I like the browser. The pop-up is the biggest probl…

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@Crab <3

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**Hetzner EX63 Server Share**

[Depenguin.me](https://depenguin.me) helped me get [FreeBSD](https://Freebsd.org) installed on a [Hetzner EX63.](https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootser…

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Oles is the boss at OVH, a huge hosting company. Clearly, I am Not_Oles. \:)

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Reference: https://github.com/jart/blink
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33675462

Is it too crazy to imagine that Low End VMs could be blink-based?

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@imok @sh97 I think I got this from Heymman. Thanks!

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> [@qps said](/discussion/10449/quickpacket-flash-specials-dedicated-servers-for-189-99-year):
> E3-1270v2, 16GB, 1TB HD - $189.99/year (Los Angeles only)

This looks affo…

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Congrats @cmeerw! That's really cool! :star:

Anybody else want on the server? Please check the How to Apply section in the OP.

Thanks Hosteroid! ❤️

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https://www.sevenreflections.com/name/horist/

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Hi @ehab! I said "What?" cuz our friend @wssy hypothesized that he was the only one here. He always has been helpful and polite to me, ever since I first came here. I want him to know -- like I feel …

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Hi @vyas! Sounds a little like my possibly broken Duet 5 Chromebook keyboard, "fixed" by removing the magnetic keyboard/cover and running the tablet with an external wired keyboard and mouse. Like yo…

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On December 31, 2025, on [page 65 of last year's Pit,](https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/226181/#Comment_226181) @backtogeek said:

> "Passed my assessment today (assuming …

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From https://web.archive.org/web/20150101052629/http://qemu-advent-calendar.org/

> **Slacker's time travel**
> What happens when you dig up the earliest Slackware Linux im…

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To get the new year started:

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root@ultra:/usr/src #

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>>> World build completed o…

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#Happy 2026!! :star: :star: :star:

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@backtogeek Good luck with the blood tests and the reset on the 6th! I will send off good vibrations of the correct frequency! :star:

@Everyone Happy 2026 and beyond! :star:

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> [@MichaelCee said](/discussion/8743/onepoundemail-history-updates-discussion-questions): I want to use this thread . . . to get feedback along the way.

From a [new](https://lowend…

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