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Leniwcowaty :solus: :kdenew:
@Leniwcowaty :solus: :kdenew:

A humble, Polish sysadmin in love with FOSS and Linux

Certified Linux grandpa ๐Ÿ‘ด
Debian forever :debian: โค๏ธ
Linux Mint supporter ๐Ÿ’ต
Bored LMDE enjoyer :linuxmintnew:
Extremism hater ๐Ÿšซ

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  • wss://relay.ditto.pub โ€“ read & write

Recent Notes

Josh · 1w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... go on kernel mailing list, and check what features were merged into kernel thanks to Meta, Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Spoiler: You probably couldn't comfortably use Linux as daily driver desktop if not for them.

Big companies pouring developers, time and money into Linux is GOOD. And everyone who claims otherwise has the brain power of a 3-year old
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Josh · 1w
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Leniwcowaty :solus: :kdenew: · 2w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... here you have a Polish youtuber that has a whole series of reading old 90s gaming newspapers from Poland. Amazing window to the past:

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZ0h0Yns_-Xh8NC7RqyEdTbWCH-OdbDJp

Some of them have manual English subtitles, some you have to use the automatic translation. I can really recommend.

Also another example of Russian-Polish localisation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OHorx0CFuc&list=PLZ0h0Yns_-XjfTsf7VGax12mGBUU7gO0V
Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Yeah, Poland didn't have anti-piracy laws up until I think 2005? Or something like that, so it was a wild west of pirated games, cracks, unofficial ports etc.

One more example - hard drives were super expensive here, so you couldn't really install the game - it had to be running directly from CD. Crackers would replace all cinematics in the game with 1 second 10x10 px video to save space, so the game would be already installed on the CD. Often with cheated saves included
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Leniwcowaty :solus: :kdenew: · 2w
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Oh yes! And you must ask them for unofficial Polish localizations in early 90s. Where crackers (mostly Russians) would rip out original voice lines from the game and re-record them in kinda-sorta-polish-russian, oftern in terrible quality, with heavy accent. Here you have a great example - Max Payne:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dkxEWDhlw
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... probably. Although I'm not exactly "that" generation - I was born in late 90s, so I experienced a tail end of this whole ordeal. But for example, when in early 2000s German teens were playing Nintendo games and getting PS for Christmas, I was going with my dad to flea market every weekend to buy a pirated CD of some new PC game from some shady Russian game. We even had "unofficial ports", where the CD (or later DVD) would include pirated PlayStation game and the emulator!
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... yeah, exactly! I even have a full crate of cassettes my mother recorded from the radio. Some of them even have the radio speaker tuning in to say something, like "Hey, as promised, we're playing Iron Maiden, hope you like it!"
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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Gina · 2w
I'm so excited for my bestie Stefan to finally play the best game ever made ๐Ÿ”ฅ Stefan grew up in South Africa's Kruger Park. He literally got bitten in the butt by a hyena (no joke) before he ever ...
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@nprofile1q... Just out of sheer curiosity - where you're from Nintendo was a big deal?

In Poland we literally never had Nintendo. Only in the 90s we had a Polish licensed NES clone called Pegasus, but it was a luxury item not many could afford. Apart from that, Nintendo never had any presence here. Before Switch was released I really saw a Nintendo console in person like once - in highschool when my friend's father brought him DS from his US work trip. Poland was always a PC land
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Andrew "P.B." Graves · 2w
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