circuitfarmer

I enjoyed DRDOS. I didn’t have much to do with it as a hobbyist, but definitely enjoyed trying it out. I wasn’t old enough to use it back in the day.

But have been away from M$ for 4-5 years now. The Linux train is the best train.

Yeah agreed, that little amber display is awesome

I don’t have direct experience with what you’re trying to do with CTTY, but I do have a CF-to-IDE on a 5160. It’s been a while since I used it, but it was a game changer because I could get exact versions of things I needed more easily. Iirc I ended up with MS-DOS 5 as a sweet spot between features and performance, and I also tried things like DR-DOS.

Yeah that’s fair. My RAM usage is through the roof lately, but it pretty clearly happened when I switched to a multimonitor setup. I’m much more likely to have a lot of stuff in the background now because it’s easier to have a lot open at the same time in the practical sense.

But I was lucky enough to grab a 64GB kit before prices went into the sky. Believe it or not, I was regularly up against the limit when I had 32GB.

“Starting to”? 16GB is just a few tabs open for long enough.

Assuming around USD $220 for a 16GB kit of DDR5, it now costs $27.50 more to run Ubuntu.

Spoiled for choice is a good thing, and it’s one reason why Linux is great. I think the community could do better at two things in this regard:

1. Helping new users understand that the choice is not really a major one (relative to making the switch to Linux). Adjust whatever to your needs as you learn, or distro hop.

2. Not jumping down new users’ throats if they pick Ubuntu / Mint / Fedora / whatever. Again, the freedom is a plus. A new user picking Ubuntu doesn’t make an older user need to use Ubuntu. Let the new user have that joy of discovery how they want it.

I think if we all focused on these, the community would be better off for it. I’m all for a good ribbing about distros between experienced users, but it definitely can scare newbies away.

I’m not understanding the logic here. Apple killed their last tower. That isn’t surprising, and their user base is perfectly happy buying nothing but SOCs.

Then there is a still-expanding PC gaming market, where building the machine from discrete parts is a portion of the hobby. By and large, this has never really overlapped with Apple’s user base.

The article does a poor job saying why we should expect non-Apple machines to go the same direction.

On Tuesday, the jury deliberated for only one day before agreeing that Meta should pay $375 million in civil damages for violating state consumer protections and misleading parents about the safety of its apps.

Not enough. These corporations operate on different math. They pay no taxes. They swim in currency. Pick the biggest realistic number you can imagine and then multiply it by the next biggest. Anything less will be factored out as the cost of business.

Case in point: $375 million is a mere fraction of what Meta spends in a bunch of different areas. Compared to profits, it’s practically rounding error. It won’t affect much.

They’re not really supposed to be played like Mario. Sonic is about getting through the level aa quick as you can without dying.

To be fair, the game doesn’t really reward you for doing that (besides the time bonus). But the levels are designed for it.

Microsoft will have plenty more missteps as they continue to fall from relevance.

2026: “My LLM is female and conscious.”

2016: “My body pillow is female and prefers to be called Waifuchan”

This. AI is not and will not be profitable. It’s afloat because of an investor circlejerk. Once they get off then it’s over. A waiting game.

Happy to hear they allowed the non-disposable domain. I understand both positions, but actually getting that last reply that they would allow it feels more unusual than it should be.

Absoutely. It takes like 5 seconds to get a real photo.

But I have considerable downvotes on my original comment. Maybe bots. Maybe AI bros who need to see the light and that their tech is based on the death of IP law.

Exactly, makes no sense to me

Really cool article. Except this bit:

The image of Saturn was generated with ChatGPT.

Fucking why? Could have saved time and energy with traditional search. Leave the slop out, please.

Slop gonna slop

A bigger issue is that the Steam Deck touchpads don’t work without Steam being open

This is interesting, because the touchpads on the Steam Controller do work without Steam being open, at least on Linux, though without cursor acceleration. I wonder why the touchpads on the Deck were handled differently.

Their no DRM commitment and use of AI slop cancel each other out, in my view.