Again, #Microsoft's continued stance on #Windows 11 means there's going to be LOTS of e-waste coming in about 10-20 months from now as still perfectly good computers are going to be unnecessarily discarded for no good reason.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/microsoft-tough-hardware-requirements-for-windows-11-are-non-negotiable
I know smart people are going to use some variation of #Linux, but most of these people are just going to discard them and get a Copilot+ PC which is going to be sad as hell.
Dragon Warrior
π’ Chunsoft, Bird Studio, Armor Project
π
1986
π₯ Game Boy Color, MSX, MSX2, NES
Today, I invite you to the crazy place that is the XMPP Railway Yard!
This #Jabber / #XMPP channel has a wide variety of people from all over the world, from #train geeks to #FuckCars fanatics to everyday folks who just think trains are cool.
https://xmpp.link/#trains@conference.jabjab.de?join
(Warning - brain damage!)
As before, if you're new to XMPP, this guide has everything you need to get started.
https://contrapunctus.codeberg.page/the-quick-and-easy-guide-to-xmpp.html
look, IRL, where i'm from, if someone like gargron had been the leader of something and fucked up so badly like this repeatedly we would have deposed him already.
and yeah, that's an option we have. a quick and easy solution is to take him down.
the problem is, if i say 'back to web forums', or 'back to USENET' a lot of people here would ignore me or call me some sort of luddite
which is pretty revealing. tells you just how much self awareness the average user actually has here on the fedi
personally i'd say the worst things about this place is the gossiping and cancel culture of the most powerful mastodon accounts. the reverse of this is the sycophantism and enabling a lot of mastodon users show to these same accounts
i think in many ways our problem in this community is that we thought we could take the concept of social media and participate in it at all
MIDI cover of a tune from RoboCop 3 on the Mega Drive. Not sure if it has a name - it's just the in-game music. #YMF715 #MIDI #RetroGaming
Edit: Pitch corrected
"Server died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure." β Camus as an instance admin
Human-read Marxist audiobook and discussion of Karl Marx's Das Kapital, Volume 1: Chapter 1 (from the first English edition, 1887) by Socialism for All
100 74LS00s NANDs for 10 dollars
thank you aliexpress
friendship ended with ebay, alibaba is my new friend
seriously ebay prices must be seen to be believed
It has been a little more than two weeks since I moved over from Mastodon to #GoToSocial and I figured I would check in.
So far it has been 100% stable. Not a single hiccup on the server. It uses 1/4 the memory that Mastodon was using and my CPU load averages on my VPS are in .0X range.
I do not regret it for a moment, if you're considering moving your personal instance to GtS go for it. 0.18 is going to be even better
was reading about how video games journalism has collapsed in australia
makes me think of restarting my old gaming blog
New Libreboot release very, very soon.
Just polishing up the last few little bits. Here's a timeout feature I implemented for U-Boot's bootflow menu last night; with it, you get an auto-boot timeout, so you don't have to press enter to boot your installed OS. U-Boot didn't support this so I implemented it.
Lots of little things like this are happening. Release probably tomorrow.
By the way here's the patch I wrote that does what you see in the video:
https://browse.libreboot.org/lbmk.git/commit/?id=c038b653ac1fed329c8577df3b19bad8d594c98a
Very, very soon.
I wonder if it's possible to write a Nokia 3310 custom firmware that's just Bad Apple
Today we are releasing Cwtch 1.15.4!
Cwtch is a privacy-only p2p messenger based on @torproject v3 onion services.
This release is a small quality of life update, with a bugfix to allow Cwtch to work on older Android devices, improved custom themes support, improved performance, the introduction of more restricted defaults for new contacts, and more.
Changelog/Download: https://docs.cwtch.im/
Please consider donating to @openprivacy so we can continue our mission to build better systems.
at first I thought getting a Star Trek Space Ship with a Floppy Drive was the height of all my fangirlish dreams!
but then the U.S.S. Shugart dropped out of warp 1.44 light years to Ceti Alpha V with a big "INSERT DISK 2" message on the main viewscreen