@sorenpeter@darch.dk Crazy, huh? 😅 One of the most unique bands that I know. I love it. 😅
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You hit those often? 🤔
Let’s not forget that this gem exists: Primus - Mr. Krinkle 🐷🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOdo7dhvSwg
I now own a guitar again.
Switching between my upright bass and that thing is a wild ride. The difference in string gauges is so massive. 🥴 Feels like trying to play on an egg slicer.
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Damn, thanks. 😅
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org What the hell! 🤣
Rainy day.
I was toying with OS/2 when I noticed that my hard disk was getting a bit full. I’m not aware that something like ncdu
or just du
exists in OS/2 Warp 4’s base system (I’m sure there’s software like that already available, but I was too lazy to search), so I quickly cobbled a little program together that sums up directory sizes. And there you have it, an installation of Carmageddon was lurking on the disk, weighing in at 200 MB. 🥴
Being able to cross-compile this from Linux still blows my mind.
Anyway, here’s my tool: https://uninformativ.de/git/dusage
Let’s see, this might be a good opportunity to make an OS/2 GUI version of this. 🤔 I’ve never done that and this might be doable (unlike other stuff I’ve recently tried).
Trying to write my own C programs that do TCP/IP on OS/2 Warp 4. Didn’t go so well. This operating system is much, much more dead than DOS and it’s super hard to find any information. 🫤
@prologic@twtxt.net I hardly ever open Reddit, so … uhm … 😅
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Same here. I’m not surprised – actually, I am surprised that the RSS feature still exists. 🤔 Or were you talking about other kinds of feeds?
@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Nice, it’s getting green again. And a nice fire-y sunset. :-)
I went on a quick walk as well. Lots of birds chirping. Can’t be long anymore until the mallards start to hatch. :-)
More basement:
I completely forgot that DVD-RAM was a thing once. Found my old disks and they still work. 🤯 The data on them is from 2008, so they’re not that old. Still impressive.
The disks are two-sided. On the photo, that particular side of the disk on the left appears to be completely unused. 🤔
And then I read on Wikipedia that DVD-RAMs aren’t produced anymore at all today. Huh.
(I refuse to tag this as “retrocomputing”. Read/write DVDs that you can use just like a harddisk, thanks to UDF, are still “new and fancy” in my book. 😂)
I was so hyped when I found this box in the basement! 🤯🤯🤯
Only to find out, that …
… it’s something else. 😭
I am waaaay too lazy to set up any of those solutions. 😂🥴 (And I have little faith that it would work. I’m having some trust issues here.)
Well, the idea was that I don’t waste “so much paper” by using my phone. 😂 Not sure if it’s worth all the trouble …
I’m this close to making an Android app for managing a shopping list.
I just accidentally deleted the wrong list in the app that I’m currently using, and now there’s no way to get it back. Recreating it is a major pain, because typing on a phone sucks ass. Fuck.
Maybe I should just go back to using pen and paper …
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no I think I get it, yeah. 😃
@iolfree@tilde.club Why, what have they done to you? Was it because of the accent?
I’ll see myself out.
@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no I had to ask because they translated this with “for fucking the devil in hell”, which sounds very wrong to me and almost made-up. 😂 But maybe it’s just a botched translation.
@eapl.me@eapl.me You’re right, it was powerful! I mean, hey, this was a Dual Core machine, which was still a new and crazy thing at the time. 😃
the keyboard was amazing
Was it? It’s quite a bit “mushy” in my opinion. 😅
It’s funny how tiny the touchpad is by today’s standards.
curl | sh
. It's easy to miss the problem if you're still in the mindset of Windows software distribution, but these people are writing software on GNU/Linux, for GNU/Linux. You would think they'd realize that this is never a good idea.
@mckinley@twtxt.net That certainly doesn’t help, yeah. 🥴
(In the case of the Rust installer, I still wonder why they go through the trouble of having a shell script (POSIX, portable, even runs on Windows apparently), when all it does is download a binary and run that. Is that super useful to people, yeah? I’m sure there’s some reason, I just don’t see it.)