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    Posted on 20-07-06, 18:31 (revision 3)
    Dinosaur

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    Speaking about Socket 7 wonders, Debian 8 (Jessie) LTS ended a week ago, which means Saki is now completely unsupported by any of the currently maintained Debian releases*, as i686-class CPUs (Pentium Pro and later) became the baseline for the i386 port starting with Stretch.

    But... for how long Debian had actually supported my hardware?
    Let's recap: The M535/8 motherboard is a design from circa 1996, built around an Intel chipset design (i430VX/Triton II) from 1995 (as the copyright on the actual ICs silkscreen says). My particular specimen (a v1.3 board) was built sometime around early '97 - IC datestamps are from late January to mid-February, and since I can't just tear this thing down to find the PCB manufacturing date at the back of the motherboard, let's consider component supply lead times and assume an assembly date of late April '97 at the very latest (yes, this mobo was already outdated junk when its original owner bought it brand new).

    Now, let's check this handy Debian version release history page. The nearest release would be a couple months later (Debian 1.3 "Bo", released in 1997/06/05), nicely giving some time between the assembly at Taiwan and the arrival at your friendly crappy computers dealer on an unspecified Venezuelan location (which could have been several months in between considering how glacially slow were Customs back then), so let's assume support for VX boards was rudimentary on whatever 2.x kernel they were using back then (2.0.27 on Rex, .34 on Bo), but Good Enough™ to boot to a text console - maybe even to X and TWM if you knew which magical enchants to recite.

    Let's count: Bo->Hamm->Slink->Potato->Woody->Sarge->Etch->Lenny->Squeeze->Wheezy->Jessie
    11 releases in a 23-year time span!
    Not even Apple can claim such a great support!
    Sure, this machine stopped being able to boot to X at least 10 years ago (last time I tried, it was in 2006 - it took forever and a half to start KDE 3... but surprisingly it could even run NetBeans!)

    Compare to Windows versions likely to be run on this hardware: 95 (support ended in 2002), 98 (2006), possibly NT4 (2004), maaaaaaaaybe 2K (2010) if you maxed out RAM and had a suitable PCI videocard, and I guess XP (2015) would boot on this one with a lot of effort (but forget about service packs!). That is, between 5 and up to 18 years of support, depending on which degree of pain you were willing to endure. Thus, Debian is truly the "Universal" OS.

    No - Saki hasn't been running Debian since 1997: I became her owner back in December 2006 as a bunch of spare parts at the college dorms (I know absolutely nothing from her previous life as a desktop computer, but I guess it ran Win9x until being decommissioned). Original name was "p100crashbox", then shortly after became Saki as her first duty under my ownership was to record audio from dubbed anime at the regional Animax station (bittersweet memories indeed, and one of the many reasons I fucking hate $ON¥) - extra points if you guess the anime! No, it's not the "girls playing mahjong" one.

    Her first OS was Knoppix 5.0.1, which was based on Debian Sarge, IIRC (it couldn't be Woody as Knoppix used a 2.6 kernel, and it couldn't be Etch either as that one was released in mid-'07) Sid, from pre-freeze Etch vintage. Back then you could boot a live session and perform an HDD install, which would leave you with a heavily customized Debian that could -in theory- receive upgrades from the standard Debian repos. But since we didn't got the dorms hooked to the information superhighway until January 2009, said bastardized Debian became even more bastardized thanks to custom-built packages (including several kernels, naturally). Such hodgepodge of outdated shit would stay even after I graduated from college and packed my stuff back to home, where Saki assumed the router/print server/audio recorder/fileserver duties... until 2013, when I had left the prehistoric mutant EOL'd Fedora setups in the past and had fully embraced the Debian Way™ at home - Saki was the last convert, with a brand spankin' new Wheezy setup, that would get the systemDEEEs sometime around *checks* May 2015, when it would embark in its final Debian quest.

    But I guess the road is now over, now wondering what will die first: those failing capacitors on the VRM, or the about-to-pumpkinize kernel 3.16 and friends. But then, I'm no stranger to the eternal EOL'd road :P

    tl;dr: What would be the oldest computer that could run the currently supported Debian stable release?

    *There is ELTS which extends Jessie lifetime up to 2022, but it's strictly a 3rd-party program, and only a very limited selection of sponsored packages are supported. Plus I don't know if their i386 packages actually work on pre-i686 targets...

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    Posted on 20-07-10, 14:54

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    Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC
    Before You Buy

    My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10
    Posted on 20-07-13, 17:40
    Dinosaur

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    Virtual Ribbon, the ultimate Virtual Boy fix noone asked for!

    Gotta love their motto: ONLY THE BEST HEADACHES™

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    Posted on 20-07-14, 01:08
    Custom title here

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    Posted by tomman
    Virtual Ribbon, the ultimate Virtual Boy fix noone asked for!

    Gotta love their motto: ONLY THE BEST HEADACHES™


    I might actually need these. My Virtual Boy hasn't been set up in a few years due to lack of space, but...
    Figures it would take a Sega fan to fix the Virtual Boy.

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    Posted on 20-07-14, 23:10 (revision 1)
    Dinosaur

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    Milestone Danbooru posts:

    #1: shimapan catgirl from a well known h-game series - May 23, 2005
    #1M: hot Velma, anime style by a Canadian drawfag - September 20, 2011
    #2M: some random shipgirl flashing some panties - May 1st, 2015
    #3M: cute mandarin orange foxgirl (she DOES have her own Pixiv tag!) - January 27, 2018
    #4M: Pool: Scenery Porn by some baka gaijin - today

    >6 years -> <4 years -> <3 years -> >2 years -> ???

    But then, nothing beats STRONGEST GET EVAR: #999999
    A ⑨/⑨ pic of ⑨⑨ Cirnos gets the ⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨⑨GET.

    God exists.

    And he is alcoholic.


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    Posted on 20-07-15, 06:43

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    The average danbooru picture:

    2813142    1girl
    2318772 solo
    1960527 long_hair
    1649714 highres
    1403683 breasts
    1316913 blush
    1198856 smile
    1141404 looking_at_viewer
    1068825 short_hair
    987896 open_mouth

    The largest danbooru pools:

    817 pages    Pixiv 1000
    659 pages Disgustingly Adorable
    336 pages Hot Legs
    327 pages Heart-Warming
    265 pages Juicy Details
    249 pages Badass
    213 pages Reaction Faces
    208 pages No Panties?
    204 pages Beautiful Hair
    201 pages Beautiful Smile
    189 pages East Meets West
    177 pages Touhou - Hang in There Kogasa-san (Mizuki Hitoshi)
    176 pages Expert Shading
    175 pages Perfect Ass
    162 pages Clever
    160 pages Casual Nudity


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    Posted on 20-07-17, 03:00
    Dinosaur

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    The latest from Planet "You're Doing It Wrong" aka Apple Computers:
    Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera

    Closing your Mac notebook with a camera cover on it might damage your display. Designed to protect your privacy, Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

    Yeah, listen to the kings of proprietary software and disposable hardware, because we can totally trust a software-controlled LED (even if it's actually done on firmware). Because IT HAZ TO BE THEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNN!!!

    Only Apple would design a laptop whose display cracks if you tape over the camera cover. And now, you need Apple-certfied® camera covers for your razor-thin Macs. All because Apple can't offer cameraless laptop for the few paranoid nutters and corporations/governments that actually care about security!

    Oh wait, I forgot computers went the cellphone way a decade ago, and you can't simply buy a cameraless device even if you try. Now if you buy a smartjunk, it comes with not one, but TWO cameras (I've yet to use the front-facing camera on my Android turd - I'm not a Instagranolas whore and videocalls just don't mix with our pathetic excuses of mobile networks). GAH!

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    Posted on 20-07-17, 05:25 (revision 2)
    Custom title here

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    Posted by tomman
    The latest from Planet "You're Doing It Wrong" aka Apple Computers:
    Don't close your MacBook, MacBook Air, or MacBook Pro with a cover over the camera

    Closing your Mac notebook with a camera cover on it might damage your display. Designed to protect your privacy, Mac notebooks have a camera indicator light to let you know when the camera is on.

    Yeah, listen to the kings of proprietary software and disposable hardware, because we can totally trust a software-controlled LED (even if it's actually done on firmware). Because IT HAZ TO BE THEEEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNN!!!

    Only Apple would design a laptop whose display cracks if you tape over the camera cover. And now, you need Apple-certfied® camera covers for your razor-thin Macs. All because Apple can't offer cameraless laptop for the few paranoid nutters and corporations/governments that actually care about security!


    I saw this. Was particularly fond of

    "If your work environment requires you to cover the camera on your Mac notebook, follow these guidelines to avoid damaging the display:

    Make sure the camera cover is not thicker than an average piece of printer paper (0.1mm)."



    Apparently closing the laptop on exceptionally thick paper risks damage?



    Now if you buy a smartjunk, it comes with not one, but TWO cameras

    *flips over his pocket PC to count lenses*
    Three cameras. Two on the back(for SOME reason), one on the front for video phones(the future is now!) and nostril photos.

    Sometimes many more(Nokia 9 PureView, we will never forget your creepy fly's-eye back and six lenses, try though we might)

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    Posted on 20-07-19, 03:39

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    Multiple cameras for multiple modes, because in a device like that, it's cheaper and easier to include multiple fixed function cameras than it is to throw in one camera with a giant focusing apparatus. Also, you can't do multi-focal photos simultaneously without multiple cameras anyway.

    As for the thickness of the paper or tape, just remember, anything thicker, and you could be putting pressure on the delicate electronics and the glass. Thicker, they're probably thinking of anyone who would tape a sheet of cardboard over the lens, instead of, say, just slapping a Post-It over it. And possibly also haphazardly closing your MacBook on it by slamming the damn thing shut, putting an extra load of pressure on that camera spot.

    Nobody said they made the most durable hardware, but it is some of the best in its price point, and also halfway decent at cooling, what with the entire laptop body being a giant heatsink.

    ARMac will only make the thermal issue better. Consider something that only gets as hot as your average Apple smart thing does, only now it's got a giant heatsink body to improve the thermals. Imagine, if you will, that they put out something way better than the prototype hardware, which already shows that it can perform nicely, and runs like a low spec MacBook Air when virtualizing x86_64 code in tight loops. If they can pull that off, maybe they have something to this whole "ARM PC" thing.

    Meanwhile, I keep hearing random people in my friendly neighborhood (not literally neighborhood) chats that are really dying to get their hands on some RISC-V PCs. Yeah, sure. And I bet there's already a solution for running x86 code on those, right? Or were they all planning to go whole hog and throw all proprietary software in the trash?
    Posted on 20-07-19, 14:18
    Dinosaur

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    Posted by kode54
    As for the thickness of the paper or tape, just remember, anything thicker, and you could be putting pressure on the delicate electronics and the glass. Thicker, they're probably thinking of anyone who would tape a sheet of cardboard over the lens, instead of, say, just slapping a Post-It over it. And possibly also haphazardly closing your MacBook on it by slamming the damn thing shut, putting an extra load of pressure on that camera spot.

    Nobody said they made the most durable hardware, but it is some of the best in its price point, and also halfway decent at cooling, what with the entire laptop body being a giant heatsink.

    Here is a tip for making long-lasting hardware: stop making laptops THIN!
    There is no real need to do so, it only makes hardware extremely fragile for no good reason at all, it compromise thermals (and therefore performance and lifetime), and it leads to machines that can be awkward to use because you have to treat them in special ways. Please, I don't want to witness a market where the only thick machines left are Panasonic Toughbooks and hideous gamer laptops for people with really bad taste (Even nerd-beloved Thinkpads are in the "extreme diet" phase, last time I bothered checking because "bento boxes aren't sexy anymore")

    The main reason of why post-iPhone Apple devices really piss me off are their constant terrible design compromises (port removals, glued lithium batteries, soldered everything, "you're holding it wrong", anorexically thin, walled gardens, heavy dependence on The Clown) that end being copied by the competition (because only marketing can turn bad ideas into market hits), which once again leads us to a shittier market, and people get used to suck because "pretty" and trends. "Sensible" has died a miserable death, it seems.

    Posted by kode54
    Meanwhile, I keep hearing random people in my friendly neighborhood (not literally neighborhood) chats that are really dying to get their hands on some RISC-V PCs. Yeah, sure. And I bet there's already a solution for running x86 code on those, right? Or were they all planning to go whole hog and throw all proprietary software in the trash?

    Some of us don't depend on proprietary software (at least for earning a living), so certainly the underlying platform doesn't really matter as long as there is a compiler for it. But YMMV - someone in the "graphic design" area has legit reasons to worry about ARMacs and to not give a fuck over RISC-V/PPC, yet a Starbucks Javascript LOLcoder can code on nearly everything that can run Chrome.

    What I really want to see from the RISC-V ecosystem is the comeback of socketed CPUs and RAM, but I guess that ship has sailed and most nerds don't give a flying fuck over it as long as they have the sourcecode for the microcode.

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    Posted on 20-07-23, 08:57
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    Stupid shit I did today:



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    Posted on 20-07-30, 11:25
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    https://twitter.com/Wipz/status/1288489280600526849

    Some guy learning that land on Earth doesn't just float on top of the ocean, and you can't dig down through the bottom.

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    Posted on 20-07-30, 20:05 (revision 1)
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    you can see the moment when his brain melted. I wonder how many people in the stream where going why would you dig, just walk into the ocean...
    Posted on 20-07-30, 23:59

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    Same energy, really:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dkqUy7mUk
    Posted on 20-07-31, 02:46
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    Posted by kode54
    Same energy, really:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5dkqUy7mUk

    Don't homeschool your representatives, bro.

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    Posted on 20-07-31, 05:19

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    Posted by CNN
    VIDEO UNAVAILABLE
    This video is not available.


    My current setup: Super Famicom ("2/1/3" SNS-CPU-1CHIP-02) → SCART → OSSC → StarTech USB3HDCAP → AmaRecTV 3.10
    Posted on 20-07-31, 06:39
    Custom title here

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    Posted by creaothceann
    Posted by CNN
    VIDEO UNAVAILABLE
    This video is not available.
    I guess it is region-blocked.
    It is a video from a decade ago of a congressional representative expressing concerns that building a new military base on Guam will cause the island to capsize.

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    Posted on 20-08-07, 14:57

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    Posted by creaothceann
    Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC
    Before You Buy

    Horizon Zero Dawn PC: An Amazing Game Gets A Disappointing Port

    :(

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    Posted on 20-08-09, 00:15

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    Speaking of disappointing:

    https://twitter.com/__silent_/status/1291771718504271874

    OK, what the heck is up with Horizon Zero Dawn executable?
    - Not UAC manifested (how??)
    - Uses ANSI WinAPI functions everywhere
    - People have saving issues, coincidentally at least one of those people has Russian chars in user name - another 2020 game interpreting UTF-8 as ANSI?


    Posted on 20-08-09, 00:22
    There's suspension of disbelief, and then there's insulting my fucking intelligence.

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    ... okay, that's just sad.
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