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by timw4mail 5mo ago
Resource efficiency is a huge one. If you are familiar with the Via Nano: it's a SLOW x86_64 chip (sometimes used in thin clients) that feels about half as fast as older AMD 64 cpu. Haiku feels great on a Via Nano, and it's real
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by timw4mail 5mo ago
Wait...what year is it again?
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by timw4mail 5mo ago
I've never seen the appeal of GNOME 3+, the design seems so user-hostile to anyone who has used computers for a while: hiding menus for no reason, having super limited menu options, etc. I'd rather use LXDE, XFCE, or KDE.
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
The only case where I care about an IPv6 address is for something I actually want to expose to the internet. A temporary address would be quite annoying in that case.
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
Some 486SX boards are even sillier: There's a soldered 486 SX, and a regular 486 socket, so you can add a socketed 486 SX to your board with a 486 SX. Obviously the point is to be able to add a regular 486 CPU, but it's still amus
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
Surely something like OPNsense/PFsense would be better for the average user than setting up all the software manually?
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
Pentium-compatible processors were more numerous than you think. - AMD (K5/K6/K6-2/K6-III) - Intel (Pentium) - Centaur (IDT Winchip, later Via C3/C7/Nano) - Cyrix (6x86, 6x86MX) - Rise (mp6)
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
For the vast, vast majority of use cases, they are faster, yes. Cyrix chips get too much hate because of Quake being optimized specifically for the Pentium and its FPU.
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
Homebrew wouldn't support Haiku anyway.
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
No.
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by timw4mail 6mo ago
And there was the same problem with early PS3s, on Nvidia's GPU package...it was a fairly widespread problem at the time.
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Show HN: A CPU info utility for DOS, Linux, etc.(github.com)
1 points by timw4mail 7mo ago|0 comments
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by timw4mail 7mo ago
The code style seems to be targeting some old version of PHP...but I'm absolutely sure typed properties require a newer version of PHP than existed in 2008. (If I recall correctly, that's around the days of PHP 5.4 or so)
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by timw4mail 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure screen-spanning was better before "fullscreen"...In Lion, I think?
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by timw4mail 8mo ago
Just uses make-like syntax, not yaml, which I view as a huge advantage.
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by timw4mail 8mo ago
There are new models that are recreating beam spring too. (Although I don't think they are in stock yet).
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by timw4mail 8mo ago
I'm too invested into Gentoo at this point to really consider Arch, but hey, arch-chroot does make modern Gentoo installs just a bit quicker.
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by timw4mail 8mo ago
And it's objectively terrible
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by timw4mail 8mo ago
Another assumption is that knowing how to use the tool doesn't require learning (and discipline). I tend to think that easily falling into using the crutch of AI is a significant issue itself, and that can be especially significant for
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by timw4mail 8mo ago
Go vertical?
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by timw4mail 10mo ago
To fab the CPUs...seems more plausible than anything else with Intel.
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by timw4mail 11mo ago
I seem to remember 68k software working (on PowerPC Macs) until Classic was killed off in Leopard? I'm likely misremembering the length of time, but it seems like that was the longest backwards-compatibility streak Apple had.
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by timw4mail 1y ago
I must just be weird. I prefer light themes. I want all the colors, including "semantic highlighting", that is, each variable scope getting its own color. I think the difference between highlighted colors, rather than the specific
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by timw4mail 1y ago
The majority of degree requirements are lazy gatekeeping.
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by timw4mail 1y ago
Assuming you can get software support for more than one version of 'blessed' distro.
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by timw4mail 1y ago
In many ways I'd argue that a popular project is worse, as you end up dealing with a bunch of social factors that take time away from actually making or improving things.
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by timw4mail 1y ago
KDE has been my preferred desktop environment since I started playing with linux sometime in the KDE 3 days. I'm glad the wobbly windows desktop effect has stuck around too: absolutely unnecessary, but it's silly and fun. My bigge
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by timw4mail 1y ago
Of these options, I'd recommend the SV08, provided you are okay with some mods essentially being required for consistent, reliable use. These being: - Eddy sensor (for faster bed meshing, eddy-ng addon for Klipper adds auto z-offset)
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by timw4mail 1y ago
Automation, and ease of skimming articles for one.
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by timw4mail 1y ago
PHP package management actually works, for one thing :P

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