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by ndiddy 3mo ago
What do people use XP for these days? I found it frustrating to use when it was new because of how often the system would lock up even on decent hardware (although being able to draw pictures with the frozen windows was sometimes fun). When
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Preindustrial peasantry wasn't like slavery. The feudal obligation days ranged from 8-12 hours of work depending on the time of year (obviously more in peak work times like harvest), of which 2-3 hours were spent on breaks and eating.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
IIRC the company tried to become a major mobile operating system in the BRICS countries, which led to Rostelecom, the Russian state telecom operator, purchasing a majority state in the company in the mid-2010s. After Russia invaded Ukraine,
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Well the Industrial Revolution was objectively a worse deal for the average worker. The average preindustrial peasant worked 8-12 hour days, but had Sundays off and at least 120 rest days and holidays. Depending on how good wages were at th
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
So not only is the AI buildout increasing people's utility bills and the prices of consumer electronics, but now the general public isn't even allowed to benefit from the advanced AI models enabled by the buildout, only whatever l
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
It was definitely for the disk drive. The idea was that you'd leave the disk drive plugged into the bottom of the system and then have a separate cartridge with the RAM, drive controller, and BIOS ROM. Somebody recently made a homebrew
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
The Famicom didn't even have the connector. It had a standard off-the-shelf 15-pin connector instead, which was mainly used for external controllers. The Disk System instead connected to the Famicom via a RAM adapter that plugged into
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
The EXT pins only allow setting the backdrop color to one of the palette values in the master PPU's color palette, so the Titler can't use that functionality to superimpose graphics over arbitrary video. It actually uses an RGB PP
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
The RGB PPUs used in arcade machines didn’t have the master/slave functionality, they instead used those pins for the analog RGB output.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
It’s a feature that doesn’t take much die space to implement, so if they didn’t need those pins otherwise I don’t see why not to add it. If it turned out that the PPU wasn’t good enough for what developers expected, this would have let them
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
It is. They previously got rid of the 256 GB, $599 configuration, and the cheapest option was the 512 GB, $799 config. Now they brought back the 256 GB base model but at $799, and the 512 GB model is $999.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Price changes are: MacBook Neo: +$100, now $699 MacBook Air: +$200, now $1,299 MacBook Pro: +$300, now $1,999 iPad Air: +$150, now $749 iPad Pro: +$200, now $1,199 They also brought back the 256 GB model of the Mac Mini, but it's now $
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
This is one of the great contradictions in American society. The right to bear arms is enshrined as a fundamental right in the Constitution, but the state will treat anybody who chooses to exercise this right as being an inherent threat. Th
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
I'm curious what this will lead to, both security wise and jailbreak hobbyist wise. I saw this overview: https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/1ua58xd/usbliter... which mentions that it won&#x
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
I'm not sure exactly how many programs used them, but support was fairly widespread in a lot of popular programs because it was the only way for Classic Mac OS to make use of the second processor in multiprocessor machines. Some exampl
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
If you had good enough hardware to run OS X, running OS 9 stuff in Classic meant that at least you didn't have to restart your whole computer when something froze, just all your OS 9 software. OS X was definitely slow and a bit buggy e
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
> My understanding was that classic was built on the assumption that events come in from the keyboard and mouse and once you added more events from the network it exposed race conditions. It probably didn't help that we were on &quo
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
They already did, to an extent. The base Mac Mini used to be $600 with a 256 GB SSD, but they got rid of that and now the cheapest option is the $800 512 GB model. The typical Apple strategy is to make the base model of a given computer the
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Yeah people forget about it now because it ended up being a failure and Microsoft rolled it back a couple years later, but Windows 8 was basically an attempt by Microsoft to take over software distribution on Windows. They made an entirely
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
This isn't really true, the code works like most cross platform codebases where most of the code is common and then there's a bunch of platform-specific backends that handle graphics, sound, input, etc. They used the same gameplay
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
> Well, because it's true: many of the repositories are named after "Wacom". It's a historical legacy on GNU/Linux. It's also a decade-long debate that these repos should be renamed differently. If the proje
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Another thing to note is that Mojang had already commissioned a C++ port of Minecraft for the console versions, which they then abandoned in favor of Bedrock. The original console port ran better, was less buggy, and had a nicer UI for cont
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Thanks for keeping TenFourFox going for so long! It let me keep using a G4 iBook as a daily driver until ~2016 when the web got to be too much for it to handle.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
One thing you have to keep in mind is that most of the Macs this browser targets use PowerPC processors, not Intel. The heyday of Linux on PowerPC Macs was around 15 years ago, and most of the support has rotted by now (i.e. you won't
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
In this case Israel agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah, then had IDF soldiers inside Lebanon try to capture a base that Hezbollah holds. I think it’s reasonable to expect that if you sign a ceasefire and subsequently try to capture a base
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Iran’s perspective seems to be that their sovereignty will continue to be threatened by Israel if the US doesn’t start using its considerable amount of leverage over Israel to force them to stand down. I’m not sure how likely this would be,
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
If anyone's interested in what songs the Doom music was referencing, here's a good overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y3RWlDz_AA
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli Minister of National Security, released a statement this morning regarding Israel's attacks in Lebanon: https://x.com/itamarbengvir/status/2067865510281170957 > For every tear
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
Yeah the goal isn't to actually end military aid to Israel, it's to move the military aid under the vague DoD accounting process so nobody outside the DoD knows what's actually being sent.
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by ndiddy 4mo ago
The Macintosh interface was designed around running a single program at a time, multi-tasking was shoehorned in later on. The Windows 3.1 interface is a lot closer to the Macintosh interface than the Windows 95 interface is, so I think a lo

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