[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 14 points 5 months ago

The purpose of a guillotine is to deliver energy

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

How much plastic is used in the raising of a cow? In either case the full lifecycle needs to be considered.

But TBH veganism isn't necessarily an environmental movement. There's often overlap, but nothing about being ethically opposed to farming and killing animals means one is more environmentally conscious.

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

If you don't care about the benefits of Gentoo, such as the excellent use flags system, then no it's very much not worth it.

If you'd rather that every program comes compiled with every possible option, and requires every possible dependency because of this, then you'd be better suited by a binary distro.

If, however, you're the kind of person that wonders "why does my torrent client support sound, which pulls in these five audio dependencies? I don't ever need it to make noise, can't I just disable the ability for torrents to go 'bing' when they're done and forego installing those dependencies?", then gentoo might be for you.

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 11 points 9 months ago

Not important, but in case you didn't know -- In that usage the word is 'eke'. 'Eek!' is the sound you make when someone jumps out from a closet wearing a spider mask.

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 9 points 9 months ago

Yes. Though it doesn’t have to be cheese. Carrot will grate just as well.

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 26 points 10 months ago

We need to find a new way to hate on stupid vehicles without body shaming.

The guys with small dicks never did anything wrong. I’m sure some of those truck drivers have massive cannons the diameter of a coke can, but that doesn’t excuse their stupid wasteful vanity machines.

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

Correction: Using NVidia GPU on openSUSE experience

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

How are you installing apps?

Can you give an example of the issues you had with a specific app?

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

If you let them out unsupervised, I'm calling the cops!

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

What do you mean by “not doing anything during and after install” re Gentoo?

Your computer isn’t held hostage during compilation of that was your impression

[-] 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

the idea is to show that X land use consumes an area equivalent to an easily recognizable state-area

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 1993_toyota_camry@beehaw.org to c/operating_systems@beehaw.org

I've seen a couple conversations about older or more esoteric operating systems, so I thought I'd make a post about 86Box and why I like the project.

86Box (a fork of PCem) is a low-level emulator for a wide variety of hardware from old PCs. Unlike most modern emulators which prioritize speed, it prioritizes accuracy of hardware emulation. This means it has all the quirks and features (and bios screens) you'd expect in old hardware.

It can emulate a variety of systems from the first IBM PC up to the Pentium era. It has a surprisingly large variety of motherboards, storage controllers, disk drive models, network cards, graphics cards, etc.

To test it out, I set up something close to my first PC:

  • 486 DX2 66
  • ASUS PVI-486SP3C Motherboard
  • S3 Trio64V+
  • 234MB 4500RPM HDD
  • Novell NE2000 ISA network card

I set it up with Dos 6.22, Windows 3.1, network drivers, mTCP, winpacket, trumpet winsock, and I'm on the internet in both dos and windows.

While something very similar could be accomplished with dosbox, virtualbox or qemu, I enjoyed the experience of using the 'actual' hardware. I also imagine it will support old quirky software more reliably than the alternatives.

I think a Windows 9x system with a 3dfx Voodoo card will be my next build.

So, Anyone else used 86Box or a similar emulator? What for? How did it go?

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