æʃliŋ, medical grab-bag @aescling@cat.family

@vaporeon_ water and water and water water
water and water and water water

@compufox oh no! your tits are growing too powerful!

@vaporeon_ i think it came down to branding. the engineers at microsoft definitely knew better but the company was insistent on the incorrect name

there used to be a twitter account @gayocats@twitter.com with the display name “Gay Cats”. it was just a catposting bot. i would link to so many tweets from that bot a couple years ago that at least a one of my mutuals started using the term “gayocat” regularly. i eventually created a reposter bot at @gayocats befur the original bot creator created their own Official mastodon account after getting frustrated with twitter. i think that moved bot is down now though. i completely furget what the handle even was lol

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@monorail @coriander WSL1 was really cool though, it would run linux binaries natively on windows. with some hackery you could ever run the binaries directly from CMD!

@monorail @coriander i’m sad they gave up on the WSL1 way of doing things but i’m not exactly surpurrised either

@monorail @coriander WSL1 had a cool WINE-like translation layer going on but they just do VMs now

@monorail @coriander no it is actually literally just a virtual machine

@wallhackio @holly @monorail on glitchcat we encourage fucking around with git

@coriander @monorail the newer version of windows subsystem fur linux. it lets you install linux distributions within a VM that you can launch as an application. which is Certainly A Way to get a posix environment up and running on windows

@wallhackio @monorail @coriander flower trick

@vaporeon_ i do think the unix purrogramming environment is the best introduction to the shell i’ve ever seen but i totally understand your hesitation in recommending it to people

@monorail @coriander there are cygwin and msys2

@coriander @monorail sorry that’s all i’m gonna say i’m done with that now

@coriander @monorail install WSL2! there’s a world of fun and magic to be had in the funny good command line world!!

@holly @vaporeon_ @wallhackio now, you might wonder, how the fuck is that supposed to work if i’m writing markdown that ISN’T supposed to be targeting HTML? and, well, there answer there is: lol. lmao.

today in minor tragedies: a poor vaporeon learns just one of the many small ways markdown is a fucked up little markup language

@coriander rip