/hob/ - Hobbies

Do any of you play Go/Weiqi/Baduk? It feels certainly like a game one with a lot of time can devoted themselves to. Other interesting games like shogi or chess? It's certainly somewhat difficult to self teach and a teacher would help but it is what it is.

Any of you guys wargame? I've tried getting into old school ASL recently and am finding the pure infantry combat of early starter kits pretty underwhelming without the artillery and armor expansions

I always played around with it in a very disengaged, uncommitted manner. Well, on September 2nd, just a few days ago, I decided to really learn Linux to the point I could truthfully add to my resume to help me find a position somewhere. For that reason, I picked Ubuntu, possibly the most popular, all-purpose Linux distribution out there. I began doing the edx's version of the Linux Foundation's Introduction to Linux course because of the bells and whistles they have there in terms of exercises and whatnot. Unfortunately, they peppered the whole course with unbelievably idiotic mini videos geared towards morons. Imagery of douchebags with designer haircuts typing away at a laptop with some coolcorp background and annoying music.

So I said fuck it, and instead I decided to read the Linux Bible. But then I found out there's an Ubuntu Linux Bible by the same author, and so that's what I'm reading now. Straight to the point, concise, has exercises, not as many as I would like, but I can come up with variations on my own. Today is the third day I'm following the book, and I intend to make a daily post, briefly talking about the stuff I've learned on that day.

The first day was pretty much just going through the fluff. What Linux is, history of Linux, Unix, GNU, what open source is, etc. That's the first 20 pages of the book's 718 pages.

The second day I read about the X Window System, desktop environments, GNOME desktop, Nautilus file manager, and ways to run Linux (live medium, permanent install, etc.). The exercises consist of messing around with the GUI pretty much, something you would naturally do in a fresh install of an OS. I also had to install Ubuntu because I was running Windows. I got lucky because Ubuntu 24.04.1 came with some broken packages for Nvidia drives, and that of course fucked my shit up, which was a very excellent opportunity to do some tinkering and learning. I got it to work, it only took me an hour or so. I read people saying this is the most broken Ubuntu update in years, which I take as a good sign for my timing. And then I broke Light Locker while changing to Xfce as my desktop environment.

Anyway, third day, today, I finally reach the meat of the book and begin messing around with the shell, trying different commands, pretty simple stuff, whoami, pwd, ls, cd, command syntax, hyphenated options for command's behavior, locating commands, and really, just getting comfortable to mess around in the termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

Are any wizards interested in astrology? I've recently got into it and become very passionate about it. It's definetely true, and i've also started to developing my own theories that i'm hopefully going to refine with time.

what language are you learning and what tools do you use to learn it?

What's everyone's opinion on keeping a journal? I've been keeping one for 3 months now and it's a nice pass time.
I can write done my worries and look back on all the things I've accomplished

I get so depressed about the absolute state of my country and the state of the world politics generally that I prefer to detach and imagine myself observing history in action like an entomologist would observe an ant colony. Just taking an academic interest in what is happening and using historical patterns to guess about what will happen next.

This approach has led me to an interest in the study to futurology. I like to think about the future in terms of
Scientific and technological advancements
Political changes
Changes in culture/art/creativity

I write down a lot of my ideas and seal them. I hope to live to 2100 (106 years old) and then reopen them.

Here we discuss and speak of dreams that we had or the kind of dream that we would want.
We don't discuss of lucid dreaming.
I wanted to make this kind of thread as i do control them in how they will work but once inside i let the dream go and work his own doing.

Any type of writing is allowed, from lyrics, to poetry, to essays, and anything in between.

Last Thread:
https://www.wizchan.org/hob/featured/res/46012.html

Some discussion starters for the thread:

>What are you writing right now?

>What's your favorite thing to write about?

>Is there anything important about writing that you wish you knew earlier?

>What literary devices do you implement in your writing?

>Is there anything that you're planning to improve on in your writing?

Uh… hey.

I'm Kode. I don't really post much here, but I figured I'd share something I've been working on.

This is my first real attempt at making an operating system called NEKO KERNEL. And yeah… I mean *attempt*. It's still early, things break, and half the time I fix one bug just to discover three more.

There's a video here of it actually booting and running. Surprisingly, it works more often than it doesn't, so I'll take that as a win.

It's 32-bit, which probably raises more questions than answers, but I wanted to start with something I could actually understand before making my life even harder.

Right now there's not a lot to do. It's mostly just me figuring things out, writing code, breaking everything, rewriting it, and repeating the process until something finally works.

I'm putting together a website soon so anyone who's interested can download it, test it, and tell me exactly what I managed to break.

So yeah… that's NEKO KERNEL.

Hopefully you like it.

And if it randomly crashes… just pretend it's a benchmark.

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