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by helf 4y ago
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 i
242.
by helf 4y ago
I adore that movie! Doesn’t get enough love.
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by helf 4y ago
I would agree if the sticker on the box didn’t say “compatible” :p
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by helf 4y ago
I loved my 440* chipset systems. I miss them, too, lol. My last one died due to a damn screw driver slip. sobs
245.
by helf 4y ago
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
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by helf 4y ago
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 mor
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by helf 4y ago
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”
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by helf 4y ago
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
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by helf 4y ago
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 t
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by helf 4y ago
Curious to know what you think. :D
251.
by helf 4y ago
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?
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by helf 4y ago
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 a
253.
by helf 4y ago
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 communicati
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by helf 4y ago
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...
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by helf 4y ago
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. Massi
256.
by helf 4y ago
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?
257.
by helf 4y ago
Uh huh. You really believe that?
258.
by helf 4y ago
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
259.
by helf 4y ago
New shiny!
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by helf 4y ago
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 lik
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by helf 4y ago
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
262.
by helf 4y ago
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 g
263.
by helf 4y ago
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.
264.
by helf 4y ago
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
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by helf 4y ago
Not mainlined = useless? Ok.
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by helf 4y ago
I’ll trust btrfs in another 2 decades maybe. hugs zfs
267.
by helf 4y ago
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
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by helf 4y ago
I didn’t know this. That is fascinating!
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by helf 4y ago
I guess I should have clarified more: I dislike everything running entirely separate OSes that you have no control over at all and are complete black boxes. The fact they are running entire OSes themselves isn’t that big of a deal. I just h
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by helf 4y ago
Oh I know it’s been a thing forever. Hell, my NeXT Cube with its NeXTDimension display board was such. The NeXTDimension board ran its own entire stripped down OS. It used an Intel i860 and a Mach kernel…. It also was massively underutilize

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