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Ghost in the S̶h̶e̶l̶l̶ internet connection?

Why I wished I knew more about the inner workings of computers For the last three years, I have gotten increasingly interested in how computers actually work. Sure, this comes years to late (from my current standpoint) but in the past I was perfectly happy to play games and cheat my way through them (the first of which was Age of Empires with little photon laser shooting soldiers.) But nowadays, I want to KNOW how stuff works. More often than not it’s something like “Hey, how could I keep my monitors from going to sleep?” and after 10 minutes I’m down a rabbithole on Linux messageboards, sifting through information on systemd and symlinked services and whatnot. And while that is super interesting - it is also beyond me. ...

November 19, 2022 · 3 min · 558 words · jmchor