HakFoo @ HakFoo @lemmy.sdf.org

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I used it in a necromanced college laptop... 486DX2 at 40MHz, no L2 cache, but admittedly 20Mb of RAM. It was slower to boot than DOS, but reasonably usable. By 3.0 they included half-decent pack-in software, while Windows still had just Write (not even Wordpad)

I think people don't like dramatic changes in business model. I had installed it for like 3 days, long before the switchover, to test out something from another dev. When they made the announcements, the hammer went down in our org not to use it. But that didn't stop them from sending sales-prospecting/vaguely threateningly worded email to me, who has no cheque-writing authority anyway.

Plus, I'm not a fan of containers.

STOP DOING CONTAINERS.

• Machines were not meant to contain other smaller machines.
• Years of virtualization yet no real-world use found for anything but SNES emulation
• Wanted to "ship your machine to the end-user" anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that. It was called "FedEx".
• "Yes, Please give me docker compose up meatball-hero of something. Please give me Alpine Linux On Musl of it" -- Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

"Hello, I would like 7.5GB of VM worth of apples please"

THEY HAVE PLAYED US FOR ABSOLUTE FOOLS.

Classic sulcata assholery.

You could use like a 74181, or one of the vintage bitslice ALUs.

What distro are you using? Been looking for an excuse to strain my 6900XT.

I started looking at getting it running on Void and it seemed like (at the time) there were a lot of specific version dependencies that made it awkward.

I suspect the right answer is to spin up a container, but I resent Docker's licensing BS too much for that. Surely by now there'd be a purpose built live image- write it to a flash drive, reboot, and boom, anime vampire princes hot girls

Sometimes the appeal of socketed RAM is to just buy the bottom model and upgrade.

When I bought my Thinkpad E585 (wouldn't reccomend), it was like $50 cheaper to buy a second 4GB DIMM from Crucial, and like $100 less to take the 500GB spinning rust option and add your own NVMe.

Or deliver the UBI as a basket of subsidized services and goods.

If, for example, we chose socialized medicine instead of a $5000/year UBI, a landlord can't very well say "Your rent is going up 30 tablets of lisinopril this month."

I've heard it's a "pets vs cattle" thing. When you have a small fleet of distinct servers, you name them. When you have a thousand interchangeable boxes, you give them systematic IDs.

Or you scale up to a franchise with a large enough cast. I wonder if anyone uses One Piece character names for servers?

Some of them have poor stability. I gave up on a Sound Blaster Audigy RX after it caused random crashes on two different Socket AM4 mainboards. I just got a 10 metre optical cable and a cheap DAC next to my reciever.

I suspect the industry is in a tailspin; the last players standing really don't have to give a **** because the alternatives are onboard sudio or $$$$ pro cards.

The problem is that more square metres doesn't mean more useful functionality. I recall going into a model home and it had no less than three dining tables set up. You could entertain an inaugural ball, but the bedrooms were still chintzy 3m x 3m boxes, no dedicated office/library/etc, tiny pantry and laundry room.

I feel like an ideal home design would offer two more bedroom-size rooms than residents:

One as a dedicated office so you can remote work without having to appropriate the dining table, and one semi-finished for hobby room for activities that are space intensive, require special equipment, ventilation, etc. Think "woodworking or 3D printing shop", "LAN party/gaming/home theatre room", "model railway setup permanently built in room."

OTOH, some of this could be compromised if similar facilities were provided in a community centre instead. I want to see the retirement neighbourhood built around a maker space and library instead of golf courses and pickleball courts.

That's potentially a viable attack route: register a billion dead accounts to fill up the database. Reaping them if they never complete an activation step like confirming a ToS or email verification would help protect the server.

50 cent coins contained silver for a few years longer than dimes and quarters. So you have a slightly better chance of finding a silver coin worth a few dollars in a roll of halves. It's free gambling for numismatists.

Source: I ask for the occasional roll of halves.

Okay, so we've got an entire new range of Family Guy skins for Guild Wars 2. I can sort of see Stewie as an Asura... and then we realize it's a Meg episone. A 175kg, 210cm Nord Meg episode.

I thought it was apt. She'd fuck you over regardless of gender.

This isn't as absurd as it looks.

If we assume the loans will implode either way, the Chinese model at least funnels some of the money back to their own contractors, and ends with some goodwill and infrastructure. It's an aid programme with extra steps.

I wonder if the western model optimizes for loans doomed to fail to use them as a lever to extract structural and political concessions, or if it's just a happy accident.

One Piece. The worldbuilding has yet to crash down on itself after 25 years.

Genshin Impact. Yes, it's gacha, but there's mountains of content you can play without spending a dime, and they continously expand both content and quality-of-life factors.

Yeah, it's surreal. Back when the Oregon Trail Generation got their first 486 class PCs with 14.4 dialup, all the safety guides were about "never use your real name."

The fear of some theoretical elite AOL pedophile corps and being able to age out of an embarrassing "ponygirl1987" account actually made good prep for the idea of "you have multiple identities for different contexts" and "keep personal and work stuff isolated."

When they call you "queer" and "a CCP stooge" on Reddit, it's a flame. On the Fediverse, it's a sign of love and camaraderie, if not an outright cost of admission.

Got it today. It seemed wildly confused about storage (2T drive for Linux, 1T for Dedicated Genshin Console Win10) but there will be at leadt one Void user polluting the data.

It almost seems like Israel demonstrates the "tyranny of the majority" problem often attributed to democracies.

To service a majority audience, it was all too easy to do stuff like expanding settlements, violently overreact to low-level protest, refuse to negotiate towards a two-state solution, and bottleneck a free-standing Palestinian economy. Of course this marginalizes and radicalizes the minority until it blows up.

Historians can analyze if there was animosity and an occupier mindset immediately from 1948 onwards, when and how much, but it's academic. The situation today is not conducive to constructive resolutions, plus a significant part of the electorate that LIKES it that way.

They probably needed some stronger constitutional guardrails to present this sort of abuse. But again, door open, cows escaped already.