HarriPotero @ HarriPotero @lemmy.world

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It's probably getting more rare as hardware gets more complicated.

You can barely get modern computers to boot without some proprietary blob. MINIX was a great stepping stone back in the day, and ran on plenty of hardware.

I have a sweet spot for MorphOS in my computer collection.

I do love bare-metal programming, but it just isn't feasible for wide targets like modern machines. I guess the next best thing is writing virtual machines for my own needs.

It was slackware 2.0.

It was the only distro I could get my hands on because who would download a distro on dialup. Also there were no CD burners nor USB sticks yet. So whatever your friend had on CD waa the option. I guess the only other possible option would've been red hat back in those days.

So you're saying he would wait for it to cool down before eating it?

"Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?"

Cool.

Last I checked kwin was still waiting for some protocols to become available. I'm sure it'll be good to go if and when I need another Mac on my desk to synergize.

There was another server that already supported wayland/gnome, but the scrolling was too wonky for my nerves.

It think they drew the wrong conclusions.

It's not the high income-countries that are spearheading this decrease. It's the high cost of living-countries.

I've been daily driving it on some devices for maybe 6 months.

My only showstopper was input-leap, but I have not had to use it for two months. So I've gone all-in since. It works better in every sense - except for the input-leap thing.

SIDPlay did something similar on the Mac.

It has the neat built-in feature of rsyncing the high voltage SID collection to your computer.

However, if you deleted your local copy of it and tried to re-sync it'd update (with deletes) against / instead. Bye bye files.

That's true for diesel. First gen bio-diesel was hydrophilic to make that even worse. Absolutely fill up the tank before leaving it over winter.

Gasoline keeps evaporating and essentially only breathes out until the tank is empty.

Mostly I'll just go with M_PI.

355/113 = 3.14159292035398 is close enough for my needs.

I use syncthing. Share from any app, land on that directory on your server.

PeerTube uses Webtorrents to offload hosting of hueg files.

Odysee uses something similar to do the same. (At least they claim to, but last time I took a dig at it it seemed to be hosted "regularly")

Spotify famously had their own p2p-thing going in their desktop apps in the early days. Saved them a pretty coin back when hosting was expensive.

Coming to a browser near you is IPFS.

It feels like many positions today don't deal with things that you couldn't learn in a 6 month boot camp aimed at a particular stack.

I did my computer engineering degree in the early 2000s, and we still had a lot of those early day concepts. All from digital electronics, to processor and compiler design. Lots of focus on the formal methods to prove the correctness of software. Plenty of programming paradigms. None of my professors had a degree in CS. There was no CS when they were studying. They all had math degrees and a love for logic and automata theory.

I can't say that I've actively used it outside of academia, but I think that it has set me up to be a life long quick learner of everything happening in this fast-paced field. Most roles might be working with high level languages today, but those roles wouldn't exist unless capable people build the compilers, drivers and hardware.

The field needs people who will comb through specifications instead of searching stackoverflow to figure out things. (I guess asking ChatGPT or copilot are the new stackoverflow)

I have a guilty pleasure in old things. The Computer Chronicles have all their episodes on youtube, and their analysis of the news in the 80s have held up remarkably well. I've also been reading Hollingdale's Electronic computers. Computers are still just Von Neumann architecture no matter how many abstraction layers we build on top of it.

That we do abortions for fun.

I mean, I do do abortions for fun. But not because I'm an atheist.

I probably spend the most time with the C64. Mostly for watching or coding demos, so I know it quite intimately at this point.

The NES is the most recent. The miyoo gets a lot of playtime on the toilet.

We had computers at home when I was little. Vic-20, C64, PCs.

But, of course I wanted a NES like all the other kids. Or a Megadrive/Genesis. But, no, computers are for work. We don't do video games.

So, I've had to make up for that by having a collection of all the consoles I never had. I've had a good run doing software development the last two decades, so I'm financially comfortable. I've recently taken the plunge into becoming an indie game developer. So, I guess the joke's on both me and my parents.

My gaming collection currently has a VIC-20, C64, plus/4, A600, A1200, NES, master system, genesis, WiiU, switch, Gameboy, GBA SP, DS, 3DS and PS Vita. And a miyoo mini, retroid pocket 3+ and a gpi case for emulation.

I think that limit (previously 5GB) is for files that they'll store for you. Larger transfers are P2P only.

I recommend https://wormhole.app for the purpose. Drag, drop, leave the tab open.

The article states that part of the compensation was stock and stock options. Likely incentive programs from previous years that finally paid off.

edit: looks like spez got 600k salary, and the rest of the compensation is solely based on the stock's performance.. and he can't cash that out unless someone is willing to buy all that reddit stock.

On the other hand.. consider if your cat had walked over the keyboard before it rebooted and replaced it all with hhhhgggggggggggggggggggghgf before it auto saved and replaced the document. Would you still be an advocate for auto save?

It sucks to lose work, but this is clearly a user error.