RussianEngineer [she/her]

just license everything under GPLv3 and call it a day, gosh. any other license is just liberalism (unless someone knows a better one)

y’all didnt know that?

4 years? has it really been? fuck… been here since the old CTH lifeboat discord server, so much has changed… so many inside jokes… so many struggle sessions… so many libs…

heres to 4 more years everyone

only if it has one of the chipsets which will allow full DMA over the isa slot, aka the intel 8xx series

the intel 865/875 is the best one as it supports a faster FSB over the older 845 and 815 chipsets

they’re kinda rare tho and if it does have one, the 845 with the slower FSB is way more common then the others

athlon XPs dont support DMA over their ISA bus. the p4 can with specific chipsets

yes, even the awful netbursts have their use. and no, that use is not “spaceheater” even if they do that as a secondary function

another issue with the static linking is the larger binary sizes it causes, meaning more of my precious disk space is wasted!!! another big issue on extremely resource limited systems such as 90s equipment with hard drives measured in hundreds of megabytes. i have gentoo running on a OG pentium (coz its one of the few distros left that truely supports it, via their i486 branch) and i have a dedicated hard drive for all the package management files and other caches portage uses lmao

a 80386, multiple 80486’s, a pentium-133, a pentium2, and two non-sse2 pentium4s. and they all have useful purposes for various things. things you cant do with an emulator

old

stinky

now look here buddy

modern tech delenda est

rust takes AGES to compile literally anything. also the compiler on i686 requiring SSE2 instructions is a massive thorn in my side as a old computer user and is the primary driver of my hatred of rust lmao. it gets in my way quite a lot since rust has creeped its way into a lot of open source projects these days

androgen blockers are to block testosterone production, or testosterone’s bodily absorption

when you take hormones orally by swallowing, most of it gets filtered out by your liver. this is why oral estrogen sits under your tongue for 20 minutes so it can absorb into your blood directly

injections are always the superior method anyway but not everyone can get them sadly

new-york style bagels are boiled instead of baked, which gives them a smooth shiny outside

please dont synthesize stuff you’re going to inject into your body in your bathtub. use sanitary chemistry glassware please

thanks windows for validating my unhealthy paranoia around privacy

unless you’re ready to spend hours of your day doing research online scraping ancient fourm posts so solve “weird issue the car is having #1356” and then spending the rest of the day using your garage full of tools that you definitely have to fix said issue, dont buy a car as old and run-down as that one.

I own a 199x honda integra with 25x,xxx miles on it, its a phenomenal car and runs fantastic, but god damn if it sometimes doesnt throw the strangest issues at me. many of which stemming simply from the fact its over 25 years old and parts age and degrade.

like i tell all my non-car-person friends, dont get a project car unless you want to be poor forever

basially, unless you know what you’re getting into, and are ready to become a car-person, dont.

truely baffling that the OG pentium from the 90s was the last true CISC x86 processor from intel. the pentium PRO and pentium2 onwards are risc cores under the hood

<-- bearer of the curse (deep ass voice)

struggling with the exact same issue myself, looking for a new laptop but all the “linux first/FOSS friendly” options have zero low-to-mid range options leaving only a couple different 2000 dollar options to pick from which is just way too much money for me to be spending on a laptop.

i guess ill be sticking with my modded thinkpad t440p for the time being, its age is beginning to show but it still gets the job done as a web browser and media watcher

ancient hexbear history. who is still seething over this? its long past us, wreckers are such sorry people

megalomania

alright cool