Zardoz84

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by Zardoz84 6mo ago
Well... The rusian Spectrum clones had some sucesfull career. And they did a lot of improvements over the original Sinclair and Amstrad designs. The Pentagon and the Scorpion with extra RAM, or the ATM come from pure rusian ingenuity .
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by Zardoz84 6mo ago
don't forget the original Command&Conquer
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by Zardoz84 6mo ago
I remember compiling Linux Kernel on SuSE 6.3 on a AMD 486DX5 133mhz ... good times , and I don't forget to do "make mrpropper"
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by Zardoz84 6mo ago
Didn't do you try again Linux recently?
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by Zardoz84 6mo ago
I had one of these back on the day. A very fine 486
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by Zardoz84 6mo ago
I agree with you. Also, there is people (like me) that like to small commits (that don't break stuf) instead of huge mega commits. If I do something like small broken/wip commits, are only under my working bramch and I do a intera
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by Zardoz84 6mo ago
The past was bad. But the current is far worse. Tell it to the people disappeared in the ICE concentration camps. Or to any trans people in any bad state.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
Windows 3.1, with the aproppiated drivers and modern SVGA card, had accelerated 2d graphics. Accelerated GUIs don't even need GPU or 3d.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
I remember these disk from my Spectrum +3 . Indeed more hard and resistant that the 3.5" . Sad, that the format was on the losing side and never evolved beyond the 128k (or was 256k?) that could store on a single side.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
yes
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
I strongly suggest any other distro that is Ubuntu. Canonical is a Microsoft wannabe
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
There is a weird bug in Helldivers 2 when you use the maximized window without borders and you have a multi monitor setup. Sometimes, the character stops of rotating with the mouse look... like if the mouse cursor found a limit. Another, it
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
I don't paid anything to YouTube and I don't see any ads. Because I block ads.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
My first computer whole RAM could fit in L1 of a single core (128k)
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
They add 100 to the 486, but they got 585.99999999.... so they called it Pentium xD
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
I glad that I moved to green pastures... Aka Debian.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
KDE had it. And I missed it a lot.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
plotter languages have the same concept.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
And the eye cones not are sharp filter, they overlap ranges with mid-low sensibility. That must be nought to someone with Tetrachromacy to percibe something different on a RGB screen. > More precisely, she had an additional cone type L′,
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
Adam Smith is laughing from his tomb.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
> Yeah, I live in Spain and probably once again we'll have restrictions on AC in the summer just like at the start of the Ukraine war. Hopefully, we can avoid actual blackouts. I live on Spain . What the hell restrictions are you ta
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
Just re-encode it to Jpeg XL without loss of quality, and use less space.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
Interesting... could be used to store multiple git repos and do a full text search across the multiple repos ?
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
I don't know in what parallel world do you live, but current Wayland it's pretty usable and useful for normal users.
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
I remember my father powering one of these old cd ROM drives, without a computer and using it to play music CDs using these jack connecter
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by Zardoz84 7mo ago
I need to build a Dobson mount for my old homemade 8" F 5.5 Newton ... Why doesnt have a mount ? Well, it had 2 mounts in the past. It was built by my father, and we moved to another house, we need to ditch the mount. I managed to save
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by Zardoz84 8mo ago
If it is programmed in assembly. This kind of nasty detail should be handled by the compilers.
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by Zardoz84 8mo ago
And Gnome 1. Fun fact, Gnome 1 allows you to use any window manager under it. So you can run Gnome 1 over FVWM, FVWM95, Enlightenment, or... KDE1 !
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by Zardoz84 8mo ago
I don't remember the exact number, but I remember that using memmaker and some manual fine-tuning, was on the 620-63X range of conventional RAM.
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by Zardoz84 8mo ago
I have a 486DX2 at 66 that I have as pet project to mess with Windows 95, MSDOS and S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 . SuSE 5.3 was my first full distro (the whole pack of 6 cdroms), and I had good memories of how was easy to install stuff with YaST. I c

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