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Lol. This gets rediscovered every few years. Pretty funny.

Slowest I’ve run any modern OS on an x86 chip would probably be about 60mhz pentium 1.

I used to daily drive Ubuntu (I think 5.04?) with Beryl and Compiz on a pentium 75 with 512mb of ram (awesome socket5 board) and a pci nvidia 6200. The offloaded composition etc helped a lot. Was a very snappy box all things considered. Helped that I also ran an IDE SSD on it.

Regardless of what happened when, by whom, and where, it was fucking hilarious watching the world lose it’s shit because you couldn’t go to the bar randomly or eat out.

Lost. Their. Minds.

wife and I happily read books and watched movies and played board games and went on hikes like usual

EVs are, in their current form, still a nightmare. Extremely cold intolerant, battery chemistry is less than amazing (tho that is hopefully changing soon), etc etc.

I really don’t see why more hybrids haven’t been done and more effort put into them. I adore my Volt and will not go pure EV anytime remotely soon for a variety of reasons.

I’m not going to own two vehicles just so I can travel easier and I’m not going to rapidly kill my EVs batteries by raping them with insane amperage charging to get remotely close to fill up times on a gas/diesel vehicle.

waits for the peanut gallery to pop up telling me I shouldn’t drive for more than 2 hours without a 20-30mins rest stop anyways and so it’s a nonissue because it’s not an issue where they* live or for their lifestyle.*

I adore that movie! Doesn’t get enough love.

I would agree if the sticker on the box didn’t say “compatible” :p

I loved my 440* chipset systems. I miss them, too, lol. My last one died due to a damn screw driver slip. sobs

From that link: “ In the end, Sega chose to go down a different route than what was originally planned - bundling simple operating systems within the discs themselves. Running games through Windows CE was still an option for developers, but most games used Sega's proprietary software instead. The limited adoption of Windows CE is often blamed on console programmers lacking the experience to deal with the OS, and a lack of advantages that Windows CE offered over the competition.”

It doesn’t by default boot to CE. It /is/ an option though. But it doesn’t boot it from an internal ROM.

Right, but the motherboard for a lot of systems from that era were a nonissue. If the /chipset/ supported it like with the 440 line then most boards would handle it.

And, by your own suggestion, this isn’t a fault of Intel and more of OEMs sucking.

I mean, I guess Intel could have tried mandating it or something but meh

The Dreamcast didn’t come with CE. There was just a version that could be used /with/ the DC.

For some reason people equate “compatible with Windows CE” stickers with “runs Windows CE when you turn it on”

I see this a lot but I really don’t think it was/is that simplistic.

It’s added complexity and cost for something that rarely would benefit most consumers. Now, you can argue that the complexity and cost is a nonissue on modern setups and I would probably agree.

But Intel has long had desktop grade hardware with ECC support. The 440GX chipset supported ECC and I ran a Dell GX1 SFF with 768MB of ECC PC100 for yeeeears with a 450 MHz P3 and later upgraded to 1.4ghz tualatin-256 via a slotket adapter.

The 440HX /socket 7/ chipset supported ECC. And that’s a Pentium 1 chipset.

The 440BX/GX and 450NX supported ECC and that’s with desktop pentium 2 and 3 chips.

The 820/820E/840 supported ECC with desktop celeron and pentium2/3 chips

845/845e/850/850e/860 pentium4 chipsets support ECC

875/e7205/e7221/e7230 did with desktop pentium 4 and pentium d chips

925/925xe/955x/975x did with desktop pentium 4/pentium d/core 2

It’s more sparse now that they moved to the IMC, granted. But Intel has long had multiple chipsets per generation with ECC support for desktop grade hardware.

Some days I’m super chatty and will talk to whoever in person or online. But I really don’t get the obsession society has at large with small talk and socializing. I’ll happily go weeks with no human contact.

People losing their shit over the pandemic lockdowns was cracking me up. “Omg can’t socialize how I want for a few months!!”

Curious to know what you think. :D

It’s a fanfic that’s an alternate take on the story. It’s great. If you don’t like that sort of thing then ignore it?

There is an alt history version of The Lord of the Rings written by a Russian author named Kirill Eskov called “The Last Ringbearer” and it is fantastic.

In it, Mordor and the Orcs are a science advanced nation and the southern countries are the aggressors. It’s a great “history is written by the victor” take on the mythos. I highly recommend checking it out.

They used to teach speaking and enunciation etc. differently in acting/radio/tv differently, than now, apparently.

My dad had to learn all these specific ways to enunciate and they made them do practice work. He was in communications in the military and later for the whitehouse and then radio and TV after the military.

It is interesting to see differences over the decades.

Kinda hard to find info on if. Found a few thing a though:

386 Hummingboard by A.I. Architects Inc. (supposedly $7,000-$19,000 in 1986 w/16mb) https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10263350...

https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.lisp/c/y-NxUbbwxH4?pli=... https://books.google.com/books?id=EjwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P... https://books.google.com/books?id=izwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=P...

Here here! I miss my NeXT (I used way beyond a reasonable length of time lol). Fantastic UI.

So many modern UIs are so damn space inefficient. Drives me mad. It’s like designers think everyone is an 80yo with Parkinson’s and bad eyes. Massive screen waste; white space everywhere; blah blah.

I hates it.

Absolutely fascinating how many people will contort themselves defending anything Musk does.

If you disagree you are just an emotional twit on the hate bandwagon.

What do they get from it?

Uh huh. You really believe that?

I just, you know, steer my Volt. With my hands. And eyeballs.

If I need to do something on a drive I get my wife to drive.

I honestly do not understand the obsession with self driving or driver assist.

I drove a Ford with active lane assist and having the car physically move the steering wheel is the worst.

But apparently Im one of those weirdos who actually enjoys driving.

New shiny!

I just double checked the drive and it is. I forgot about that aspect of it.

However I have run this same drive out of space using ext4, zfs, and xfs playing with it (it’s a drive I use for torrent etc) and none of them have crapped out like btrfs did on it.

Still amazes me how many fanboys he has.

The dude has successfully run some companies. Yes.

He’s also a gigantic narcissist. Womanizer. Workaholic. Liar. Edgelord from hell. Blah blah

But he does xyz things that I like and/or I wish I was rich!!

sighs

Yeah. On my end it just slowed to a completely unusable level. So while it technically didn’t lose data it effectively did since I was looking at weeks to replicate any data off it. I let it run for a week and it was still crawling when I gave up (4TB drive)

Yes! I actually gave up on the one drive. It was a torrent disk (like I said worst case scenario for a lot of things) and btrfs ate itself lol.

I ran into a major problem with performance on btrfs when used on an extremely high write volume that filled up. Between fragmentation and full disk I couldn’t even /copy/ data off the drive at a reasonable rate.

It was a perfect storm of me being an idiot and heavy use. But I dunno if they have remotely resolved the issues

Not mainlined = useless?

Ok.

I’ll trust btrfs in another 2 decades maybe.

hugs zfs

Oh man. I loved my psions. I had a Netbook that I used for a long time (even dual booted to Debian Linux on it when I needed something epoc didn’t offer). Was charging one night and a storm hit and… fried it :(

I had several psion 5 and 5mx units. Loved them.

I didn’t know this. That is fascinating!