@kaia In USSR public baths were still a thing well into the fifties — no, not because it's fun, but because a lot of blocks of flats didn't have running hot water and a room to accommodate a bathtub 😅
@munir It works fine over just 4 wires, considering they are the correct 4. You can split cat5 cable into 2 this way, but you can have only 10 Mbps over each. Keep in mind that autonegotiation often doesn't work and you have use a low-level tool to set 10 Mbps full duplex manually.
@phnt You're right! However the option to use it in LE mode depends heavily on platform as a whole, e.g. OpenFirmware used in Powermac G5 does not make it possible. I don't remember it too well, but AFAIK you could even switch the boot mode to LE and… it just won't boot 😂 @p@nyanide
@nyanide@p That said, the demise of PowerPC is a question of time. Cell Broadband Engine (CellBE) is coincidentally Big Endian, so it's already not supported, I doubt that Linux dropping support for it is even a factor here 🤷
@nyanide@p Support for Big Endian 64-bit PowerPC (and 32-bit too of course) has already been dropped, last time I tried building Go on such a machine, the resulting binary was giving me SIGILL. ppc64el — Little Endian, the architecture modern IBM PowerPC hardware uses is still supported though and AFAIK there were no plans to drop it. Problem is, those machines are expensive, the average user can't afford them.
@p@nyanide Yeah, I'm not a fan of these things either — I sometimes run vim with an empty config to prevent it from loading plugins. vim-go is still bearable — the most insane thing I've seen in this vein is Rust plugin, I tried running it on an old ThinkPad T43 once: suddenly everything slows down to a crawl and the fans are spinning up, I'm like "WTF is happening?!" Turns out it builds the project on every iteration to tell you what's wrong 🤦
@p@nyanide There's vim-go plugin or something like that — it brings in tons of dependencies, including things that you might never need and it's pretty slow as it's full LSP implementation, but it displays the output of "go doc" for the function inline as you type its name — quite handy unless you're doing it of a Raspberry Pi over ssh 😅
@p@nyanide AFAIR the online documentation also gives you link to the source so you can figure things out for yourself if something doesn't make sense, I'll give them that. It's also good for figuring out the differences between Go versions.
@p@nyanide Standard library is very well documented… Well, used to be, not sure it's still the case and they don't make you go online to figure things out.
@p@nyanide And a guy who I think is on Go cryptography team tried to convince me here on Fedi that reading about this stuff — "direct" being a special value, on some web page IS the proper way to document it 🤦
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