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Noble rule by 1993_toyota_camry in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 14 points 7 months ago

The purpose of a guillotine is to deliver energy

Is gentoo Linux really worth it? by 1993_toyota_camry in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

I hope this ship holds together! by 1993_toyota_camry in c/risa@startrek.website

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago

Not important, but in case you didn't know -- In that usage the word is 'eke'. 'Eek!' is the sound you make when someone jumps out from a closet wearing a spider mask.

Profile rule by 1993_toyota_camry in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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

Beep beep

Seriously spends $80 to drive 20km.. by 1993_toyota_camry in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 26 points 11 months ago

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.

using gpu with linux experience by 1993_toyota_camry in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

Correction: Using NVidia GPU on openSUSE experience

The Linux experice by 1993_toyota_camry in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

How are you installing apps?

Can you give an example of the issues you had with a specific app?

You’ve heard of bike gutters, get ready for people gutters! by 1993_toyota_camry in c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

If you let them out unsupervised, I'm calling the cops!

what are some advanced linux distros that don't have me compiling everything? by 1993_toyota_camry in c/linux@lemmy.ml

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by “not doing anything during and after install” re Gentoo?

Your computer isn’t held hostage during compilation of that was your impression

Land use in the US by 1993_toyota_camry in c/dataisbeautiful@lemmy.ml

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

the idea is to show that X land use consumes an area equivalent to an easily recognizable state-area

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Running old operating systems using 86Box (86box.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org to c/operating_systems@beehaw.org

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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?

Dear RedHat, are you dumb? by 1993_toyota_camry in c/foss@beehaw.org

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago

IMO Ubuntu has been the best bet for linux on the desktop since about 2006.

They occasionally do things people dislike, but it's always easy to pick a different flavour (Xubuntu and Ubuntu-mate are great examples IMO), and the underlying distro is reliable and stable.

I'm also a big fan of LTS releases, and supported upgrade paths between them.

/2c

I have over 170 house plants. If I submitted a photo and a quick info guide on them per day or every few days, would that be something worthwhile of interest or would that be considered too spammy? by 1993_toyota_camry in c/greenspace@beehaw.org

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

I agree this would be appreciated.

And if people feel like its spammy, or you decide you don't want to continue, you can always stop some time before the 170 days it up. :)