Comment Re:Uah no (Score 1) 147

by oddtodd on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:15PM (#66363150) Attached to: Long-Time Slashdot Reader Announces New Open Source Web Browser 'Northstar'

+2 Funny

Comment Re:Systemd is sabotage (Score 1) 107

by oddtodd on Monday January 26, 2026 @10:08AM (#65949730) Attached to: KDE's 'Plasma Login Manager' Stops Supporting FreeBSD - Because Systemd

+3 -> Insightful, Informative and Funny

Comment Re:YouTube aside, they're not wrong... (Score 1) 213

by oddtodd on Thursday April 24, 2025 @07:34PM (#65329103) Attached to: Young Men in US Abandoning College Education at Record Rates

+2 Spot On

Comment Re:Someone had to post it (Score 1) 22

by oddtodd on Thursday October 10, 2024 @12:57PM (#64854217) Attached to: OpenBSD 7.6 Released

LOL, a more civilized troll from a more civilized time, brings back memories...

Comment Re:Unix philosophy (Score 1) 135

by oddtodd on Friday June 14, 2024 @10:27PM (#64550627) Attached to: Version 256 of systemd Boasts '42% Less Unix Philosophy'

+1 Amen

Comment Re:pfsense/opnsense (Score 1) 150

by oddtodd on Saturday February 03, 2024 @06:14PM (#64211446) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can You Roll Your Own Home Router?

I've got a couple WRT54GLs w/Tomato around here somewhere...
And to the GP, I still run ddwrt, you insensitive clod!

Comment Re:Search & Replace (Score 1) 136

by oddtodd on Saturday December 23, 2023 @01:27AM (#64100505) Attached to: Tolkien Estate Wins Court Order To Destroy Fan's 'Lord of the Rings' Sequel

I've actually got a copy of that around here somewheres...

Comment Re:will the colour be user selectable? (Score 1) 154

by oddtodd on Friday December 08, 2023 @04:08AM (#64065857) Attached to: New systemd Update Will Bring Windows' Infamous Blue Screen of Death To Linux

LOL, U R a true old school Winderz user if U remember this!

Comment Re:Oh no (Score 0) 154

by oddtodd on Friday December 08, 2023 @03:37AM (#64065811) Attached to: New systemd Update Will Bring Windows' Infamous Blue Screen of Death To Linux

this is one of the best responses I have seen in a while, +1 Insightful

Comment Re:Clay tablets (Score 1) 43

by oddtodd on Saturday September 09, 2023 @05:56AM (#63834460) Attached to: Cerabyte Ceramic Storage Poised To Usher In 'Yottabyte Era'

+1 Funny/Insightful

Comment Re: Money grab (Score 1) 92

by oddtodd on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @01:19AM (#63582510) Attached to: More Than 2,000 Families Suing Social Media Companies Over Kids' Mental Health

yes

Comment MOD PARENT UP (Score 2) 54

by oddtodd on Sunday May 21, 2023 @12:58AM (#63538849) Attached to: Freenet 2023: a Drop-in Decentralized Replacement for the Web - and More

Thank you for the software, Sanity!

Comment Re:Gstreamer anyone? (Score 1) 81

by oddtodd on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:21AM (#62979275) Attached to: In Praise of FFmpeg

How is this not modded +11 Extremely Informative?

Comment Re:Desert humidity (Score 2) 93

by oddtodd on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:59AM (#62564770) Attached to: Cheap Gel Film Pulls Buckets of Drinking Water Per Day From Thin Air

I once had a stop in Tuscon to pick up passengers so I didn't have to deplane. The captain said the locals couldn't play golf because it was so hot the glue that held the grips on the club shafts was melting and clubs were flying out of folks hands.

Comment teenager (Score 1) 19

by bmo on Friday November 12, 2021 @05:55PM (#61982671) Attached to: New Mineral Discovered In Deep-Earth Diamond

as a kid, i built one of dave mao's presses. it's deceptively simple for what it does.

it's basically a stack of belleville washers leveraging a pair of tongs.

you can create different pressures depending on the way you stack the washers, which are essentially springs.

i didn't have the cash for the diamonds, but it worked. if i kept it, i could probably buy diamonds for it.

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