ChrysanthemumIndica

Sounds like you had a rougher go of it than me, I'm glad it's better for you now! How was the satellite, I hear the upstream and latency were no fun?

I moved out of my parents around 2003, and generally lived the city life with some kind of cable most places I went. I moved back in with my mom a few years ago though, and it was pretty rough working remotely on that 6Mbps connection. So thankful for the gigabit now.

Somehow it was actually my dad downloading the things and then making me burn CDs of what he got, in 2007 (Yay Nero!) To be fair, he was always downloading a bunch of stuff from our local BBSs in the early 90s, too.

Thankfully we had a second phone line just for that... my folks couldn't get DSL until 2012, and only last year was able to move from DSL to gigabit fiber. (Both because of legislative attempts to bring better internet to rural areas, the local cable monopoly still won't lay cable out there)

Perhaps a kink for someone ignoring you/bored of you?

Funny timing, I'm actually playing through the games right now. I had forgotten about the little quips it has about the game industry!

Feels so different using a gamepad on a modern PC, I still remember playing it as a kid with a keyboard and CGA graphics. The shareware version of course, ha.

But but but that's not Unix! https://fqa.9front.org/fqa0.html#0.1.1

(Seeing plan9 running on real hardware always makes me unreasonably happy, so thank you!)

Gosh, my daddy's family is from north Georgia, and he came across one of these guys as a kid. It scared the crap out of him!

I'll admit, I've always wanted to see one in the wild... maybe one day. Big lil snot otter.

Oh gosh, that's giving me flashbacks to one of my third semester computer science classes at college (Intro to C and Compiler Design).

One of the very early assignments was creating a red-black tree. Thankfully I was already pretty familiar with C, but I don't think that was true for anyone else in class... totally super didn't scar me or anyone else.

... and I literally only just now got the joke, oops 😅 if only we could all be left-leaning red-black trees

Oh god, folks at work started using that in PRs recently, it eats at my soul! Or something less dramatic.

That's fair, and sort of what I assumed, but I don't quite have the experience to say for a fact, so much appreciated!

Ironically I've only done modem stuff when I was very young and also somehow most of last year. But also maybe I get a little paranoid when it comes to talking to devices, and maybe I'm extrapolating my current i2c woes too far 😅

I'd like to concur about reading the receive buffer faster than it is filled!

Hopefully there is some end of line character that can be parsed for, but if not, a timeout should be fine like you said.

Curious what baud rate is being used.

what babe?

Sapphic high five!