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by einr 2y ago
Back in the day, people didn't even know Amiga 1200 could output VGA resolutions. Also, you needed a special adaptor cable which I only saw home-made versions of. The Commodore monitors which were released at the time intended for u
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by einr 2y ago
I took a LaserJet 4050 (introduced 1997, I think ours might have been made in 1999) out of service (active, networked office use) just a couple of years ago. Not because it stopped working, because it still printed like nobody's busine
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by einr 2y ago
That click stopping the sound makes me curious to see a plot of bytes per second sent and received. Is the modem resetting itself every time it clicks and introducing a small pause or data loss? There is no data being sent or received yet
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by einr 2y ago
This is not very hard to fix. Automatically downloading and applying public IP reputation blocklists cuts down on this by like 95%. The rest you can catch pretty trivially either with server-side filtering or just filter in the client. I do
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by einr 2y ago
Securing a mail server is full time plus job. No, it's not. I say that because I am the sysadmin for two mail servers (postfix/dovecot) with hundreds of users that have been chugging along for 30 years or so with no significant
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by einr 2y ago
You are successful, they will change the license, and you're dead Yeah, but this assumes that Mozilla itself is successful enough to retain the leverage to pull back users towards Firefox. With the kind of stuff they have been pullin
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by einr 2y ago
Thorium is regularly 3 months behind on updates Unfortunate, I suppose, but this is the kind of tradeoff that is to be expected when switching to something maintained by one guy in their bedroom instead of a megacorp.
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by einr 2y ago
I mean I guess that depends on what you mean by fork? Most of the above projects follow upstream Firefox/Chromium (Pale Moon, for example, doesn't -- but that also means less support for recent web standards) but they are forks in
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by einr 2y ago
Firefox forks: * Waterfox * Librewolf * GNU IceCat * Pale Moon * Seamonkey Chromium forks: * Ungoogled-Chromium * Thorium * Iridium You'll have to do your own due diligence as far as how trustworthy or suitable these are, but nomin
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by einr 2y ago
You can run CP/M on the Agon Light computer, which is indeed based on the eZ80: https://github.com/TheByteAttic/AgonORIGINS https://github.com/nihirash/Agon-CPM2.2
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by einr 2y ago
Singling out "you can now pretend your Windows is a reasonable facsimile of a Linux" as an example of innovation is not really a flex.
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by einr 2y ago
https://github.com/AugustDev/enchanted
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by einr 2y ago
In Swedish, too, the word for a game cartridge was and is "spelkassett", literally game cassette -- the same word as in "kassettband", cassette tape. I assume it is similar in many other languages.
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by einr 2y ago
I couldn't say for sure that some UNIX shell somewhere at some point did not do home directory wildcard expansion -- seems like a WMD grade foot gun, but OK -- but as you've noticed, tcsh does not do it and in fact even if you
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by einr 2y ago
It does not "not do anything", it expands to a list of your files that have a filename starting with ~. You just don't happen to have any in the current directory ;) And yes, this is a potential footgun: % touch ~test z
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by einr 2y ago
No, that would be ~/* or just ~. The article says that the command deleted every user's home directory, which seems to imply that the shell would expand ~* to a list of every user's home directory. But -- sensibly -- neithe
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by einr 2y ago
A pro tip from a Mac sysadmin who gets to clean a lot of filthy laptops: https://folivora.ai/keyboardcleantool
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by einr 2y ago
This is true for the Mac Studio but not for the M4 Mac Mini -- they all have a single storage slot and the only difference between the 256 and 512 models is the model of the NAND chips.
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by einr 2y ago
IRQ sharing on PCI came with its own pains though which were sometimes harder to diagnose and fix. In the early 2000's I was recording and mixing music with DAWs on Windows 2000 and you always had to be very careful that your PCI ASIO
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by einr 2y ago
I've put plenty of AVRs on ethernet - and once, a 386, using an ancient DOS TCP/IP stack, but never a 286. Linux doesn't support it due to requiring an FPU. mTCP ( http://brutmanlabs.org/mTCP/ ) is a cur
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by einr 2y ago
It's the "large"/high-DPI version of the font, intended for larger displays and resolutions like 1024x768 and up. The size and style of the system font in Windows 3 is not fixed, but depends on your display driver and wh
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by einr 2y ago
You can edit /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades to make it behave any way you like. I believe it is explicitely suggested when you install unattended-upgrades that you should edit that file to suit your environmen
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by einr 2y ago
Linux will run on a 68020 which is a couple of years older than a 386.
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by einr 2y ago
The Game Gear didn't come out until one and a half year later. It's easy to see how it wasn't even remotely practical to release a color handheld system in 1989, and it's easy to argue that it wasn't practical in 19
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by einr 2y ago
The NES -- as far as its basic hardware architecture -- was not designed for a market where the video game crash had even occurred. It was designed for release in Japan in 1983 as the Famicom, undoubtedly the most powerful console in the
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by einr 3y ago
After Dark 1.0 for Windows comes on a single floppy and is 716k in total, compressed, before installation. After installation, the 34 different screen saver modules take up roughly 650k in total, for an average of about 19k per module. TOAS
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by einr 3y ago
Why permanently graft a part to a highly space optimized device when it isn't even being used most of the time? I mean, that's a valid way to view it, but I doubt it was an engineering decision first and foremost. Hanlon's
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by einr 3y ago
Roughly speaking every laptop on the face of the earth, including every Apple MacBook, has a headphone jack. Speaking of Macs, many of them have very high-quality DACs and amps that can drive quality headphones. Apple has gone out of their
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by einr 3y ago
TV boxes IME usually ship with less compute than they have to [in order to provide reasonable UX] ;)
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by einr 3y ago
Sometimes old stepper motor hard drives can be surprisingly resilient just because everything is bigger and chunkier and dumber. The bits on the platter are physically bigger. You can hand-crank the spindle motor to help it get going, oil t

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