Yup. I’m Bo7a.

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Cake day: June 6th, 2023
  • Bo7a@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Where do the rural homeless near you live?
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    7 months ago

    The periphery of small towns covered in makeshift tents and shanty style campers would disagree with your statement.

    These encampments used to be for seasonal workers passing through. But more and more become year-round all the time.

    You are certainly correct about the bulk of homeless making their way towards the cities, but there are a growing number of those who don’t.

  • Bo7a@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it a bad idea to introduce a new kitten to a house where there is already an older cat?
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    8 months ago

    I know a single data point is pretty worthless. But here is our most recent experience.

    When we suddenly lost one of our 5 year old brother cats, the one who was still with us got lethargic and very obviously wasn’t himself. We waited about 2 months then brought two rescue kittens home about a week apart, and did a fairly relaxed intro for each before bringing in the next.

    He hissed at both of them for the first 5 minutes when physical contact was allowed but otherwise he left them alone for a few days each.

    Within a week they were sleeping together. Now they can often all three be found in a big furpile licking each other and he is back to his playful self. We considered not getting another friend for him. But we are so very happy we did.

    Cat Tax: Batman (The older brother) is on the bottom left, Eddie Vedder Allen Poe is the one sitting up, and Skeeter can be seen squinting on the right as she always does when she is in her happy place.

  • Bo7a@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•Your first distribution
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    8 months ago

    Whoa! thanks for sharing your experience. Your work was definitely appreciated. 25 years later, mainly due to that silly need to play pirated cartoons for the kiddos, and a CD rom I pulled out of the trash - I am a sysadmin who wears an architect title, and I have built some amazing systems. Maybe if Caldera hadn’t been what it was I wouldn’t have been interested enough to make it work, and to realize a love for unixlike systems. So yeah. Thanks :)

  • Bo7a@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•Your first distribution
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    8 months ago

    Caldera linux 1.2.

    Those days were magical.

    I had just started my university days and I had two young kids who wanted to watch cartoons but we couldn’t afford cable. I ended up scrounging parts from the garbage bins in and behind the computer lab to scrape together a workable desktop.

    If I recall correctly it was 333 MHz. Originally installed Windows 98 SE on it. But media would stutter no matter what I did, even if all other processes were killed.

    A monk friend of mine (my university was geographically attached to a Benedictine monastery) asked me if I had tried Linux as it should be easier on the system resources and still allow me to play most media.

    The rest, as they say, is history.