whoa I finally got Debian powerpc64 installed and working on my POWER720
trick: install Debian 11 from CD, manually update /etc/apt/sources.list to sid, apt upgrade the world
granted I had to temporarily disable gpg checks for apt because installing from *just* the CD didn't install the proper keyrings
but hey the system is up!
It occurred to me yesterday, as I waited the usual three or four minutes for Word to open my document, that the basic tasks most people use PCs for (browsing file systems, opening documents and working on them, email) have barely improved or changed since the early 2000s. And have not sped up or become in any way more productive
Surprising that more dynamic programming languages don't have Common Lisp's (and also Python's IIRC?) thing of just automatically promoting integers to larger machine sizes and then to bignums rather than forcing them to be a fixed size and then raising an exception or letting them overflow. I guess they instead insist on taking from Javascript and just using floats for everything so instead you get really hard-to-debug float precision issues when reaching large enough integers instead.
kinda feels like i should become a hermit and shut myself off from most of the world
people are not listening, and i am tired of being hurt
I made U-Boot purple.
New Libreboot release soon!
Alper Nebi Yasak gave me the idea. Just hardcode that memset; see video_fill() call in the terminal window in expo_render(). Just hardcode the RGB value #280b22 in that call.
A bit hacky but it works.
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
๐ข Chunsoft, Bird Studio, Armor Project
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1986
๐ฅ 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.
Share your train photos and memes here!
https://invite.joinjabber.org/#trains@conference.jabjab.de?join
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." โ 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