Lemmy search is awful but you eventually learn to work with it
Never forgot how Hexbear thought Russia wasn't going to invade and I felt the same way at the time
Open Firmware is a specification for software built into your computer that brings all the hardware up and boots your operating system. On PCs, there was/is something analogous called the BIOS but Intel has made something more modern called UEFI (which I don't know too much about tbh)
What makes Open Firmware so cool is you get a full Forth programming environment (stack-based programming language) to work with within moments of turning on your computer which makes it really versatile. I'm not too sure of the exact history but when Apple, IBM, Motorola were developing the PowerPC architecture in the 90s and they needed some kind of standard software to bring up their computers they decided on an Open Firmware implementation
Maybe I should write a longer post about it
And brb, made plans to with friend
Lmao
Yehhh :(
My Powerbook is still the most nicely built laptop I have ever had and I got it for like 20$ on Ebay
Not to mention the cool as hell hardware and Open Firmware implementation (why couldn't we get Open Firmware everywhere instead of UEFI or even worse... U-Boot)
If you're not familiar, Open Firmware is like a PC BIOS with a full text-based programming environment embedded in it
You can even write drivers in it and have the operating system use those
"that one episode" on Google still brings up..... that one episode...
I really hope it's just nothing.....
Only if no one posts Firefox binaries for your weird operating system and computer architecture anymore/ever
RIP TenFourFox :(
Honestly so impressive they supported it as long as they did, web browsers are ridiculously complicated. Must have been a ton of work to keep it running on ancient PowerPC Mac OS X
Trying to port new LWJGL to OpenBSD to I can play Minecraft with Edie and the Lemmygradians
Why why why did we get Java everywhere on the billions of devices instead of Inferno
Maybe I should just boot Linux...... but OpenBSD is soo much better once you get used to it