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“No Shit.”

Huh. I haven’t used macs daily for a long time. So no help forthcoming on that from me lol

I am curious to see how the steam version runs on older hardware. I know they have worked a lot on multi threading and 64bit.

When I last played it It was still single threaded basically entirely and I had to build single or dual core systems specifically for running DF.

Does Tesla do any real usability testing? Or is it strictly yes-man grab ass and fanboys?

/capacitive/ turn signals without even haptic feedback? How the fuck did that get through initial design? How is that even legal?

With the fiasco that is the objectively stupid cabin design of the Semi on top of bullshit like this it really makes you wonder what the hell they do over there.

Tried it under Rosetta2 or whatever it is called?

I love that one!

OH! Omg. I read that as ReFS and not “reference” lol.

Case I’m using is a SC743TQ-1200B-SQ

I love it. I have 6 more of them that I use for various things (3 are dedicated to my plex cluster).

going forward I will either be using ReFS or ZFS. It will depend on what OS I decide to leave on this new build.

That's why I still use a ~15 year old Supermicro server chassis with desktop foot kit on it lol. I've upgraded the innards 2 or 3 times so far. Has 8 hotswap bays, tons of room. no fucking RGB or "windows" or any of that bullshit.

I just built an i9-13900K replaced the LGA1366 2P board in it. It's an astounding performance bump, to mildly put it lol. I plan on using this chassis with this setup for probably another 5-10 years before upgrading again.

ah. Well then, my "little later" is probably multiple hours as, as my wife puts it, I have "time blindness" lol.

What’s the time out on being able to edit posts? Because every time I think to go edit one more than 60 seconds later the option seems to be gone.

I actually thought about that after I had typed it and left it for awhile. WOOPS

True. I think it’s on the surface.

BUT THATS JUST WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT in that universe XD

jazz hands

Probably. But that’s not as fun of an answer! :)

No one has mentioned Andy Weir’s “Hail Mary” yet?? :) fun book with “astrophages”.

Not to cause any arguments or anything but comparing an Apple Intel laptop go their new ARM units isn’t a great comparison because I swear apple started thermally gimping them several years before releasing the M1s to make them look even better.

Seriously. The thermals the the last couple of intel apple laptops are atrocious. And I mean from a design standpoint point. With shitty coolers and fan arrangements etc. its kinda wild.

Yes, but then it’s not considered unexplained anymore :)

Also I didn’t have the luxury of waiting.

Ok this is ridiculously entertaining. Thanks!

Exacty.

I did convert it to cash. The problem is in the US you can’t suddenly have thousands of unexplained dollars when getting a mortgage or similar.

I guess I should have clarified: I didn’t directly give them crypto. I was using it to cash out and pay cash with. But I had to prove ownership.

Same. I’m one of those lucky few who had futzed with BTC in 2011 when it was almost brand new and then forgot about it till 2019 when it started spiking.

I spent two weeks digging through boxes and imaging hard drives before miraculously finding my wallet.dat from 2011 that I luckily hadn’t encrypted or even passworded lol.

Had 3.25btc in it (I remembered the .25. The extra 3 were a shock.). I ended up paying for my home down payment with it.

You shoulda seen my broker’s face when I showed up with almost entirely crypto to fund the mortgage. It took them several weeks to find a company who would be OK with crypto being fronted. I ended up having to come up with a way to prove it was mine which was fun. Had to back track through the blockchain tracking the history of the transactions, wallet address creation. Show I had the private keys etc. they finally accepted it as after a month of back and forth.

Then I didn’t cash out entirely when it spiked to $60k and now I am regretting that lol.

This is a surprisingly well written /book/. Thanks for the link.

I used to do game save file hacking on palmOS as a teen. Was a hoot. Eventually turned to full blown “cracking” of software. That was a fun hobby.

I’ll take it off your hands if you want it to get some use :p

Uh huh?

Ditto. The people who get off on unregulated things irritate me. Regulation came about for a reason. It’s not just to control you and make the rich richer. It’s also to help prevent exactly the sort of thing FTX did.

I believe it requires a 32bit clean ROM, but, yeah, you can.

Lemme dig up some links.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/sonmyl/se30_m...

https://charlieharrington.com/my-new-old-apple-macintosh-se3...

https://lowendmac.com/2016/memory-upgrades-mac-se30/

This is so cool. I spend a lot of my downtime at work reading old technical papers and research papers. Great way to relax between server upgrades and wire runs lol

What’s really fun is you can upgrade the SE/30 to 128Mb

Considering it had a modem, could have an Ethernet module added, had official Web Browser Discs, had official Keyboard and Mouse accessories (I have all of these except the darn Ethernet module)… I think they were. Or at least a “web TV” -esque plan.

It had a ton of potential. The hardware is still fast enough to do basic browsing etc without issue if it had an updated browser.

Right? A lot of people will start going on about how modern OSes “do more” blah blah but a lot of that is complete hokum.

Imo it’s the endless layers of abstraction and frameworks on top of frameworks getting in the way. It’s hard to get a modern OS to respond to input in under, what, 80ms?

I’m not a programmer nor am I a systems designer (for a living. I dabble in this stuff tho) so I can’t really speak for a lot of it but it’s really annoying how modern stuff doesn’t seem to prioritize the interface performance both in input and output over everything else like you’d think they should. At least for consumer end user systems.

The overall perceived performance of my systems has sorta gotten back in line with my systems from the 90s with the advent of fast SSDs. My NeXTs, BeOS systems, SGIs etc were all, perceptually, snappy (OK, the SGIs were hit or miss at times lol). And that’s on low RAM and slow HDDs. But they ran smaller, tighter programs for the most part.

My PCs, running windows especially, seemed to get slower and slower after NT4 (and maybe Windows 2000) from my perspective as all the programs I used ballooned in overall size and switched to “modern” frameworks and cross-platform designs.

Finally started to get decent SSDs and the performance started getting back to how I either remembered older systems or could objectively compare against the ones I still had/have.

You can sorta improve things in a lot of systems by manually changing CPU and IO priority for various system processes (and other tweaks to system schedulers etc). Like on Windows I use Prio to reset CPU affinity and priority for various processes on reboots. The dwm process I always have set to real-time which helps a lot in responsiveness for Windows.

On android, I run some scripts I wrote to renice the IO and CPU priority for several processes related to the UI.

I just feel like this shouldn’t be a thing in 2022.

BeOS was insanely multithreaded and prioritized the UI seemingly above all else. It was always snappy :(

Ok, I’ll stop rambling like an old man.

MacOS/OSX has long had insanely slow updating. It’s always bothered me. The time estimator on the installers for it are not even suggestions.