The Smell of Molten Projects in the Morning

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  • Tempting TV Channel

    One of the motel’s TV channels offered this diversion:

    Fedora console on motel TV
    Fedora console on motel TV

    Alas, no combination of keys on the overly complex remote fed themselves to tty1. That didn’t surprise me, but ya gotta try, y’know.

    Contrary to what you might think, that’s a well-focused image. Apparently, someone, somewhere, aimed a crappy camera at a monitor and devoted one video input to the result.

    I wonder what critical infrastructure runs a Linux distro that end-of-lifed in December 2009.

    We’ll never know the rest of the story…