circuitfarmer

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[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Same! It was the last time that a single person could really control all aspects of the machine.

I guess one could claim it was protected memory on the 386 that really killed the fun.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

"If we just make them files in /dev, we can have more than 26 drives"

-- Linus, probably

(Yes, I know it's from Unix. It's a joke.)

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The absolute insanity of Commodore disk commands (especially without a fast loader cart) just boggles my mind. These were accepted by a whole-ass company. A very successful one, no less.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

One is rotation, but the other is revolution.

Rotation: circular motion of a body about its own axis.

Revolution: motion of an object moving around another object.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This is the world she helped (a lot) to create. More empathy would have probably made that impossible.

I hope she enjoys the fruits of her labors.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think you mean storage. Memory is, at the moment, oddly expensive.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

This. The problem is Windows can't read ext4 or Btrfs, and though Linux can handle NTFS, it isn't great.

When I was first switching to Linux a few years ago, I did have a shared library using NTFS. It mostly just worked, but the occasional game would refuse to start, and I had no issues once I was no longer using NTFS.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen (the last episode) holds up well as some of the best TV ever made. They really ended on a high note unlike so many more modern series.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yep, that $2 sensor is really driving up costs.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 22 points 3 weeks ago

On the one hand, I don't give a fuck about anti-cheat, because games using the kernel-level version tend to be giant multiplayer cesspools of little value.

On the other hand, I want Windows to lose the war.

I hope Valve can find the balance between these two extremes.

[–] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Doh, I'm an idiot

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