incanus77

I recall playing an 80s-ish submarine (WW2?) game with a "spreadsheet mode".

Not entirely what this is intended for, but does anyone have experience running an X server (or Wayland, I don't care)?

I'm doing some dev (on Mac) against RDP server and occasionally have other needs like that for a client. Currently I use UTM (nice QEMU Mac frontend) along with a DietPi (super stripped-down Debian) VM for these sorts of things.

I'm pretty familiar with Docker, but have a good idea of what sorts of hoop-jumping might be needed to get a graphics server to run there. Wondering if there's a simpler path.

I only tried out Yabai once I discovered AeroSpace in order to compare. I immediately appreciated AeroSpace's take on just completely sidestepping MacOS spaces.

Check out AeroSpace. It’s pretty amazing. I’m wondering if it can be made to do things like Niri.

https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

Love to see this repurposing. My first experience with Chromebooks was after a workshop at Teardown '23 here in Portland, where I attended a session on using the MrChromebox stuff. I eventually ended up using the knowledge to encase Chromebooks in custom-built cabinets for use as display screens and GPIO interfaces for a science festival educational exhibit on electromagnetism and speakers.

https://justinmiller.io/projects/catchthewave/

The machines are rugged (the spec I use is "able to be dropped on concrete from waist high and to have a full soda dumped in the keyboard") and once running Linux, fast and light. And I got them for $50 a piece!

> Here comes a secret: It will never be enough for you. It's not the money that counts. It's the ratio of income versus expenses, if anything. And if you grow one and don't stop the other one from growing in unison, then you have gained nothing.

> I know lots of people with 5x the income of me, but their expenses and lifestyle overcompensate, so they are much deeper into the hamster wheel than me.

Yes. A thousand times this.

My dad had a fall and suffered a pretty bad brain injury a few years ago. He has since fully recovered aside from more frequent short-term memory loss, but during his multi-week hospital stay, many aspects of his personality, maturity, and abilities changed, almost to the point of extreme dementia.

More relevant to this story, one incident I remember clearly was that he started talking about taking care of "him" and changing his diaper. Finally we got around to the fact that he was talking about his first nephew, who was born when my dad was quite young in the 1950s. My dad helped my aunt and grandma take care of him and it was his first exposure to caring for a child. All of those people are 30+ years out of existence now, so it was quite a flashback.

Who were also the people to coin the term “tweet”.

Could you not write your own connector to do this for yourself?

> TLS did "exist" (well, as SSL), but this was a time when you'd maybe see it used on a few websites that had it on just the specific pages that took a credit card.

Indeed, I had forgotten about this. You'd go from the regular site on HTTP to the credit card page on HTTPS and back again. For a time, it was important to check that the page that you were actually entering the card details on was on HTTPS before you clicked the submit, and that the target was also HTTPS.

I would agree, but with a caveat, especially with a cat: be prepared for a long haul, and possibly not what you expected. I got a cat when I was 23 and single, and after a couple years (and marriage) she got a seizure disorder that required twice-daily medicine. She lived for 17 years. She was an extraordinary companion, but if you had told me that I would turn 40 before she passed, and would move her through five states, I would have never believed you. My wife passed, then one year to the day, that cat passed. So aside from the obvious, I wouldn’t trade the experience with her for anything.

“Tons more features” is exactly why I would prefer Delicious Library over them.

> For me the LLM topic is just all enveloping in a way the other trends haven't been.

Same here, for sure. I just try to dodge it all as best I can. Seems like every question has the possible answer of LLMs, and nearly always, someone provides it.

Thank you, I stand corrected! I had used it in the windowing sense and didn’t recall the other option!

No, SDL provides a window/context in the existing windowing layer.

Perhaps it was this, which I saw recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/video-games-graphics...

And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it wasn't for you meadling kids!

I don't recall Windows 95 spatially minimizing windows into the bottom of the screen while preserving their dynamically updating contents. Did it? Or was it full of identical grey rectangles and moved window contents just by their outline, not their contents? The Aqua interface was a cut above given the landscape even five years later.

I've been able to cross-compile from Linux (in Docker on my Mac; things didn't work well on macOS) to make binaries that run on the 386 under ELKS. Just had to juggle a few stock games to grab a couple dozen KB on the floppy to make room.

I had tried to get some version of Linux running on my 386SX / 25MHz / 8MB RAM but only succeeded in getting BasicLinux[1] running bootstrapped from a DOS boot first. Somehow I had never found ELKS! But I was just able to trivially make a floppy and boot the system[2]. Amazing. Looking forward to playing with this.

[1] https://distro.ibiblio.org/baslinux/

[2] https://mastodon.social/@incanus/113777573079528868

I would be... once the New Year dies down. My email is my two initials @ the domain in my profile.

I took this same approach when I repaired a 386 damaged by a Varta battery. After fixing some motherboard traces, I installed a Velcro’s 3xAAA battery holder in my case for the same effect.

https://justinmiller.io/posts/2020/06/17/project-386-part-4/

There's a fun German pub here in Portland, OR called Stammtisch.

I don’t use the person tracking very often except on group vacations, but I track a vehicle with an AirTag after a car theft for a little peace of mind (along with other preventative measures). Every now and then it’s handy for my own devices, too, including alerting me when I’ve accidentally left one behind at a non-routine location.

I didn’t have a direct connection to anyone at Enron, but in 2006 I was working at a small Democratic consultancy in Washington DC and we got a new office just off of K Street. After we moved in, we were digging around in closets to find ideal placement for equipment and found a rolled-up blueprint for the building in one of them. The details showed that it had been built out for Enron lobbying. We joked that we were going to be haunted by the ghost of Ken Lay — the former CEO of Enron — as he had just died and it was the top of the news.

I remember asking adults about this when I was probably seven years old. Once I learned that tires wore down, eventually smooth, it made sense to me that the material had to go somewhere. No one really had much of a good answer as to where it all went.

I enjoyed this book’s practical take. It’s a big part of why I am currently learning Janet by doing Everybody Codes in it right now.

https://everybody.codes

Barring some existing condition, it feels to me that _needing_ to spend that long on the toilet is a major diet and exercise red flag already.

Nah, you could just send a SIGHUP and not have to fully restart.

You as well. The first year is hard.