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[-] irdc@derp.foo 3 points 7 months ago

Having multiple sufficiently-powered virtual machines makes OS development really low friction. Though I'd personally go for a blade subrack instead.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 5 points 8 months ago

Ah good. Now I know what specs not to buy.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 3 points 8 months ago

One thing about the pre-Internet times I don't hear much about is how much more centralised our media were and how, as a result, people or ideas on the fringe of society didn't get much attention. That includes for instance how the strange ideas about vaccines or ethnic groups now spread much easier than they did before the Internet, but also how trans* people and other marginalised groups find it much easier to find and support each other and be a united front against oppression.

In summary, I don't thing that what has been termed "the great awokening", nor the organised opposition against it, could have taken place before the Internet. At least not at this scale.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 12 points 8 months ago

Sadly Microsoft didn't specify where on the keyboard the key has to be.

In order to find out, hit the keyboard with your head; wherever your forehead touches the keyboard first is where the key is supposed to be.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 6 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I deserve that. I’m just gonna leave my typo. Thanks for the laugh!

[-] irdc@derp.foo 12 points 8 months ago

1024 = 2^10^

FYFY

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submitted 8 months ago by irdc@derp.foo to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
[-] irdc@derp.foo 3 points 8 months ago

The tweet wasn’t easily available on nitter (it wasn’t being highlighted).

[-] irdc@derp.foo 11 points 8 months ago

It just so happened to be the canonical source for this piece of information. And it wasn't being run by an antisemite at the time the linked tweet was being written.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 2 points 8 months ago

Exactly. The good kind of failure.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 59 points 8 months ago

Hyperloop was always a project to sabotage high-speed rail. Good thing it failed.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 8 points 9 months ago

That sounds like uncontrolled dosages of Desoxyn.

[-] irdc@derp.foo 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I alternate

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I've recently acquired an Apple Macintosh Color Display. Sadly, it's very yellowed (or rather, oranged). I was thinking about forgoing retrobrighting and just going for painting it. Anybody here who's done that before? Any idea how I can most closely match Apple's "platinum" colour?

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