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Once again, it's time for the FNGT!

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# **Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask COF, Crazy, or TheBuddha. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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If you're reasonably tech-savy, you can actually download VirtualBox (it's free and opensource) and run virtual machines of the Linux distros you find most interesting. You can even use those VMs as useful compute platforms, such as running servers and shit like that.

Pretty much no servers run on bare metal anymore. They're mostly virtualized. One server can run thousands of sites, 'cause they're powerful as fuck these days. Computers are insanely powerful in modernity. It's absolutely amazing how powerful they are and how quickly they got this way.

My first use of a programmable computer was in like 1971. Things have come a long, long ways.

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I first got to use a computer around 1980 in school, it was an apple II I believe. I got a Timex Sinclair in 82 to use at home, but that thing was a piece of crap

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LOL Yeah, old computers fucking sucked. I absolutely hated (most) computers up until about the time they got over 1 GHz in speed. When it got to the point of dual-core 1.2 GHz (which was a very, very long time coming) is when they started to be fast enough so that I didn't fucking hate them.

I did love dedicated computation devices such as a scientific calculator. That was actually faster than me.

Also, computers didn't do a fucking thing the way they came. If you wanted your computer to do something, you had to fucking write it yourself. You could buy software, but none of the COTS software what I needed it to do. So, I spent a whole lot of years programming - and I absolutely despised programming. I fucking hated it. I fucking hated computers.

But, I had to use 'em. Ain't no way I was doing all those calculations manually.

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Yeah I do remember back in those days where if you wanted the computer to do what you wanted it to do you had to sit down and program the damned thing. Then you get one decimal place in the wrong spot and the code wont run. Then to sit there and look through it to try to find the mistake was a pain in the ass