Notices by Chris 💾✒🚀🍕🎮🔧📵💻 (suetanvil@mastodon.technology), page 5

@jamey @djsundog

I'm not sure if this is better or worse then my back-of-the-envelope approaches:

1) Modify grub to accept hotkeys on the boot menu, then make the switch simulate a keyboard that keeps sending keypress codes for that hotkey until it detects an operating system load.

2) Configure grub to chain to a flash drive as its first option, then have that drive chain to your preferred OS. The switch selects which flash drive to use.

Ironically, the only significant written works of our era that will survive to be read by future historians turns out to be our git repositories full of source code.

@jamey @djsundog

If someone wants to make a USB front panel switch that tells GRUB which OS to boot and sell it for <$100, I’ll buy one.

@ceejbot

Poor spot.

@ghostwife

ETMFA.

@deshipu

42.

I think I'm going to start using "software" as a swear word.

(Why yes, I *am* learning devops right now.)

@dirt

Presumably, this landlord is moving backward through time and so hasn’t heard what you just said yet.

This is inconvenient but on the plus side, they’ll view any damage you do to the unit as a repair.

@irina

The last time I visited Germany, I made a number of deliberate efforts to interact with people (cashiers, etc.) purely in German. About half the the time, they'd just switch to English.

@lindsays

But thanks for the offer.

@lindsays

I have a VPS if it comes to that. I'm just hoping to leech off of some company's free tier if I can.

Er, I mean around 100k bytes IN SIZE. So, not very big and not a lot of them.