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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.

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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).

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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. 🫤

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In-reply-to » It's always impressive to see that every now and then YouTube manages to break all feeds for several hours straight. 404s for hours on end. My hourly cronjob failed three times this morning. You'd think at least one test would fail in their CI/CD pipeline to prevent that.

@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?

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In-reply-to » 17°C today and I finally managed to go on a hike again. My thighs are a little bit sore. Sun didn't cooperate too well with my camera, but the sunset was all the more beautiful for it.

@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. :-)

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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. 😂)

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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 …

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In-reply-to » Dug up my old Dell Inspiron 6400 from 2006. Good lord, that thing is heavy. Laptops really have improved a lot.

@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.

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In-reply-to » I can't believe software developers are still trying to get people to do 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.)

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