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[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago

It's not 4. Wiki has a table and more info

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 1 points 4 months ago

I went with the lenovo/motorola thinkphone. Kind of an oddball choice, but it has a kevlar back instead of glass, and has most of your points.

The battery is 'only' 5000mah, but i get multiple days of use per charge.

There were some pretty good sales on it because it didn't sell as well as they had hoped.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

I run a couple small mailservers. It's still possible.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I like terminology

It’s quick, gpu accelerated, can natively display images, and I’m not sure what else.

I don’t use the rest of enlightenment de but have stuck with terminology for years

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If you don't care about the benefits of Gentoo, such as the excellent use flags system, then no it's very much not worth it.

If you'd rather that every program comes compiled with every possible option, and requires every possible dependency because of this, then you'd be better suited by a binary distro.

If, however, you're the kind of person that wonders "why does my torrent client support sound, which pulls in these five audio dependencies? I don't ever need it to make noise, can't I just disable the ability for torrents to go 'bing' when they're done and forego installing those dependencies?", then gentoo might be for you.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 5 points 8 months ago

Til driving a 14 year old Hyundai makes me rich.

I think I’ll have caviar for lunch today

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 1 points 8 months ago

Mandrake is another

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The company that under-promises won't win the bid, though. Unfortunately the norm now is to overpromise, and then squeeze as many extra fees and concessions out of the project as possible.

There's also a culture of contractors vs engineers where limits willingness to work together to find solutions. "not my fault".

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 9 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Unrelated but also kind of related: check out bedrock Linux. It’s a trip.

It lets you ‘hijack’ a Linux install and then you can use package managers and packages from other distros. It’s magical how well it works.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Definitely worth a try for anyone curious.

I’ve been dual booting it since their earlier releases and things are surprisingly smooth now.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We need to find a new way to hate on stupid vehicles without body shaming.

The guys with small dicks never did anything wrong. I’m sure some of those truck drivers have massive cannons the diameter of a coke can, but that doesn’t excuse their stupid wasteful vanity machines.

[–] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

They weren’t cheap but I got my sennheiser Hd650s around 2004 and still use them daily.

I’ve replaced the ear pads and cord once each, otherwise they’re original.

 

I've seen a couple conversations about older or more esoteric operating systems, so I thought I'd make a post about 86Box and why I like the project.

86Box (a fork of PCem) is a low-level emulator for a wide variety of hardware from old PCs. Unlike most modern emulators which prioritize speed, it prioritizes accuracy of hardware emulation. This means it has all the quirks and features (and bios screens) you'd expect in old hardware.

It can emulate a variety of systems from the first IBM PC up to the Pentium era. It has a surprisingly large variety of motherboards, storage controllers, disk drive models, network cards, graphics cards, etc.

To test it out, I set up something close to my first PC:

  • 486 DX2 66
  • ASUS PVI-486SP3C Motherboard
  • S3 Trio64V+
  • 234MB 4500RPM HDD
  • Novell NE2000 ISA network card

I set it up with Dos 6.22, Windows 3.1, network drivers, mTCP, winpacket, trumpet winsock, and I'm on the internet in both dos and windows.

While something very similar could be accomplished with dosbox, virtualbox or qemu, I enjoyed the experience of using the 'actual' hardware. I also imagine it will support old quirky software more reliably than the alternatives.

I think a Windows 9x system with a 3dfx Voodoo card will be my next build.

So, Anyone else used 86Box or a similar emulator? What for? How did it go?

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