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by lproven 7mo ago
> we never had a single program to run on it Amstrad GEM came with a couple of apps thrown in! LocoScript BASIC 2, a full GUI BASIC language, and GEM Paint. Pics of the media here: https://www.dosdays.co.uk/computers&#x2F
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by lproven 7mo ago
Did you know Protext is freeware now? https://www.aptanet.org/protext/ I do a bootable DOS system on a live USB key and it includes Protext. :-) https://github.com/lproven/usb-dos
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by lproven 7mo ago
> I think there was talk of MS Word, too, and also a flop? There was a port of MS Word, and it worked well. For some strange historical reasons I can't recall now, though, it was called and marketed as MS Write instead. Write wa
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by lproven 7mo ago
> who's keyboard was frankly Not Very Good I dunno man. I came from a ZX Spectrum (via several other machines, it's true) and compared to that, the ST keyboard was great .
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by lproven 7mo ago
I wonder why GEM is back on bloggers' radar again? Last September, Nemanja Trifunovic did a good in-depth history, here: https://nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com/p/history-of-the-gem-... He missed out on the recent
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by lproven 7mo ago
> What about images, links? Formatted text like bold or underline? Easy. Don't. That's the great bit. You don't have to. https://useplaintext.email/
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by lproven 7mo ago
> Postponed my ios update as much as I could. That's what I did with iOS 6 on my iPhone 4. I never did upgrade -- it was stolen before I was forced to. Now it sounds like iOS 26 is going the same way. Makes me glad I own no Apple pr
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by lproven 7mo ago
The underlying project page is extremely long: https://eaw.app/picoz80/ It refers to other projects by the same author (?) without explaining them, such as "tranZPUter". That's a very long page too. It a
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by lproven 7mo ago
I wrote about this recently too: https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/zram_vs_zswap/ I prefer zswap to zram and as I linked at the end of the piece, it's not just me: https://linuxblog.
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by lproven 7mo ago
OK. Good to know. Thanks! What are we supposed to do, and what is supposed to happen?
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by lproven 7mo ago
That's all I see too: an ugly rendered cassette thing I can spin. It would be very fitting if it didn't work on Firefox: a sign of the growing enshittification of the Web.
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by lproven 7mo ago
Quite interesting. This is also why every video needs a transcript: that took me 6min to read, about 1/4 of the video's running time.
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by lproven 7mo ago
I wonder if Nexi having LLM bots both originating and receiving emails might be the root cause of the FSFE problem? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451429 I do not know! Just speculating.
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by lproven 7mo ago
Very interesting -- thanks for that!
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by lproven 7mo ago
It might well be, yes -- it's a long time now, I have read all his published novels except maybe in the last couple of years, and I am not sure which one is which.
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by lproven 7mo ago
It adds a parameter to the kernel boot line. That is not adding a repository. It is not doing what you claim it does. I am not putting any pressure on you. If you don't want to use it, then don't. I find it hugely useful, have bee
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by lproven 7mo ago
This is fantastic, but there's no way I am taking the time to build one, and the cost is a little frightening...
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by lproven 7mo ago
> And who didn't do that! :) Exactly. It's even how I taught myself extremely basic Pascal -- getting my BASIC Life program running in Pascal. With asterisks. A taught a friend at uni, who was a much better programmer than me,
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by lproven 7mo ago
Thanks very much indeed! There is a level where the criticisms of the neuroscientists are both entirely legitimate and at the same time probably not really valid. Again, to go to an SF reference, the Australian hard-SF writer and mathemat
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by lproven 7mo ago
Okay, fair enough!
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by lproven 7mo ago
You have misunderstood what these reports are saying. You claimed "Ventoy adds repos". It does not. It is incapable of doing anything of the kind. It does not run on the installed system. It does not modify the boot media in any w
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by lproven 7mo ago
While I entirely take your point and am not arguing with it, sadly, running Docker commands is now the only way that many relatively new Linux folks now how to assemble and deploy systems. Which is why the podman support in FreeBSD 14.2 was
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by lproven 7mo ago
Previously: systemd 260-rc3 Released With AI Agents Documentation Added https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47371568 Systemd 260-Rc1 Released: System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported https://news.ycombinato
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by lproven 7mo ago
> If you do get it to work it silently adds extra broken repos which make it impossible to install packages. This is not true. I use it extensively and have done for more than 4 years now. It adds nothing at all to the installed OS. It d
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by lproven 7mo ago
> I do not think there is anything novel here. Absolutely wrong. Tumbleweed is a conventional distro. You're root, you can do whatever you want, you have full R/W access to the entire FS, and updating is by installing lots and
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by lproven 7mo ago
> Most of these distros (except btrfs-based) simply use the A/B root system. No, not "most". ChromeOS does it (and does not use Btrfs). Valve SteamOS 3 does it, and it needed to specifically patch Btrfs to do so. That is a
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by lproven 7mo ago
Why? It looks exactly like any other KDE-based distro.
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by lproven 7mo ago
Yes it is, but that's for servers. This is a desktop OS.
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by lproven 7mo ago
> Would the A/B filesystem approach à la Android be a good way to distribute Linux with ZFS-on-root without all the angst from DKMS modules versioning? This is exactly what Valve's Steam OS 3 does. (Except it uses Btrfs for the
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by lproven 7mo ago
I wrote this up for the Register, and while I am not a neuroscientist, I tried to explain this is just a combination of chunks of existing work... https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/16/digital_fruit_fly_bra..

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