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[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Does anyone actually run their PC just through terminal? I need pretty colors to live

[-] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago

I did back in college. Mobile computing was just becoming a thing but I was way too hipster (and poor) for a PDA or one of those newfangled "smart phone" devices.

I hacked together a wifi SMS texting gadget following a tutorial on Hack a Day. It ran Debian with Linux kernel 2.6 and was so fun to tinker with.

It had 32 MB of RAM but X used 11 MB of that so you couldn't really do anything in graphical mode anyway. A shell running GNU screen however only took 4 MB so it was much more usable from the terminal.

I eventually figured out a way to pipe images and even (non accelerated, since it didn't have a GPU) video from mplayer to write directly into the framebuffer. It was a real bear to get it translated into landscape mode.

I Am Legend in 144p never looked so good.

Even with the terrible specs, I have never loved a phone so much as I loved that little computer

[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you gotta be atleast twice my age, that entire string of sentences is absurd to me. No GPU? Original I am legend in 144p; absolute hell, why even live. RAM measured in mb?!?!? Wild

Sounds impressive though atleast

[-] what_was_not_said@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

My first computer had 4KB of RAM.

[-] staticlifetime@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Damn, and I thought my IBM 5150 with its 512KB of RAM was light.

[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Wild my first (and current) PC has roughly 32gb

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