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I couldn't make talk or wall work on a modern linux system. That's a shame.

Just a few years ago in university the lab computers were running debian 10 and the sysadmin would make announcements about linux-specific infra outages through a script that ssh'd into every machine and wall'd the outage message.

We would often get people using lab computers remotely and you could talk or wall them to tell them you were rebooting soon. Good times.

I think the whole idea of using a Linux system as the host for a social network is an idea whose time has definitely come.

Disclaimer: Have a "The Wall" account somewhere. What goes around, comes around ..

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