I’m imagining a 30 year old Pentium Pro server grinding away in a broom closet somewhere.

I’m on the spectrum. I can process reading way, WAY faster than I can process someone just audibly speaking to me. That shit’s actually helpful. I admit, it doesn’t need to be in the center of the video though.

“See honey, I told you they ain’t real.”

You think having a fake online name will stop them from finding out who you are? Did you even pay attention to the Snowden leaks?

Most people these days get their hands on an Arduino or ESP32 to get started. Arduino is an entire ecosystem of C++ libraries and a framework that people have cobbled together to make programming microcontrollers easier on people not familiar with low level concepts. The IDE most people are using now is VS Code with the PlatformIO extension, since the Arduino IDE is kinda…bad.

I myself started in hardcore mode with a PIC microcontroller back in the late 2000s when it wasn’t as easy to get into it. Back then, if you needed a procedure or abstraction layer to talk to a sensor, you had to write it yourself and figure out SPI communication protocols and such. Nowadays, someone has probably already made it for you.

Lindows II: electric boogaloo.

This is not the first, btw.

Too late Broadcom. You dun fucked up.

Milking customers only works if they can’t go anywhere else. Too bad dozens of different virtual machine hypervisors exist. Docker is also a thing (I know it’s not a VM but it more or less serves the same purpose).

I discovered this when I started doing embedded baremetal programming with no OS and using SD cards. It hit me like an anvil from the sky when I realized dirs are just files pointing to other files. With no OS services you have to open the dir file directly in the program and scan it for file entries to get a list of them and pointers to their actual locations in the media. Navigating down and back up a subdirectory tree has to be done entirely in programming by keeping track of where you’ve been. There’s nothing in the filesystem itself that will do that for you. It just tells you where you can physically locate data.

ctrl-o, enter, ctrl-x

These sorts of tools and knowledge should be free and open, so people can test their own systems and learn how to defend against them. They aren’t inherently bad themselves. As with firearms, it’s all about what you do with it.

Hiding a potential exploit from the general public does them no good.

This is the equivalent of buying an old camcorder at the thrift store and finding some random family’s tape still in it of some kid’s birthday party from 1994.

You’re gonna get some framerate drops for sure. The Steam Deck internal screen is only 1280 x 800, which is how the games run so well on mobile hardware. That’s as high as a monitor from the late 90s.

According to Beeks, OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.

Salt in the wound for VMware.

Are you…not familiar with standard program menu bars? Am I that old?

As a Millennial I make it permanently visible, because that’s how programs worked in my youth and that’s how I use it. I have to actually spend more mental energy using the “hamburger” menu instead of the top one because it’s unintuitive to me.

With the old style, things were always more or less grouped the same way. File IO operations in “file”, manipulation tools in “edit”, help topics in “help”, and so on. If you learned the basic layout, you could easily jump right in to most programs and use them immediately without having to learn a custom UI that is different with every program.

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Firefox, GCC, VS Code (sorry, but Microsoft actually made something decent there, and yes, I do feel dirty using it).

That was it.

Redhat, back in 1999. Then Mandrake 2002. Then Suse 2003. Then Ubuntu 2006. Then Debian 2012-present.

But it’s funny I kept KDE since Mandrake. Same DE for over 20 years. For Redhat I was using this Win95 lookalike DE, I forgot what it was called.

Edit: I definitely did not order a couple dozen of Ubuntu’s free CD-ROMs back in the day and throw them at everyone I knew and didn’t know, including random kiosk people at the mall…

Good enough for MS-DOS, good enough for me.

People use Windows because it’s easier

No. People use it because it’s what came with their computers (look at ChromeOS, that’s Linux), and it’s what they grew up with. If you sat a kid in front of a Linux machine, and that’s all they ever used, they’d be just as comfortable using it as a Windows user on Windows. I still have technical MS-DOS knowledge from when I was 12 years old. Totally useless skills now, but it didn’t stop me from using computers in the late 80s. Computers were orders of magnitude more user-unfriendly then, but we all managed.