Notices by q66 (q66@blahaj.social), page 3

today it's this one

hm getting a little tired of the constant "chimera linux is like, so weird man, them wacky developers pulling tricks like that, you should use it, you know, as a joke" talk i see in places

i'm like, trying to put a bunch of thought into how things should be working, y'know, to make something nice and usable, that others can enjoy using (and being a part of), and that is not different for the sake of it but to push things forward

i wouldn't sink in anywhere near as much time otherwise...

@elly @famfo true lelnovo moment was when i had a recent amd thinkpad with qualcomm wifi and wanted to replace it with an ax210 and it turned out the wifi is a module but also soldered to the mainboard

@cafkafk it's not just these people unfortunately

foss these days has turned into "open source" and it's become a corporate cost cutting measure with everything done around that...

which means the whole aspect of the community doing something to make computers *and* the society a bit better for everyone else has vanished, and we're left with this husk that's just depressing and wrong

i think the biggest mistake was thinking that we could get around that with licensing nonsense

@jn reminds me how much better my life has become when i ported cu(1)/tip(1) into chimerautils

@domi oh what the fuck

so i wasn't going nuts with an hour suddenly disappearing...

@famfo i have two ppc64le boxes currently rotting in my home office so i'd love to bring something myself but transportation from spain is uhhh

@famfo https://www.ebay.com/itm/186517049306 only 87000 dollars, that's pocket change and nothing compared to how much you'll pay on electric bills

@famfo one of those days i want s390x with gpu

@famfo @lanodan yea that's the great thing about these tyans, they don't need cursed ram because the centaurs are right on the board (four of them, each serving eight ddr3/1333 slots, and each serving as individual 16MB of L4 cache)

you can get some serious memory bandwidth on these things, like twice what ddr4 quad channel direct attach can do, with some cheap ol' ddr3 sticks

@famfo @lanodan i got the thing from that ebay store, for like 300€

had to add ram but it was a pretty good deal honestly

@lanodan @famfo let's just say there is a whole lot you can do when you have pcie and your hardware is not arm (it's kind of funny that 2005 era niche-arch hardware has less broken pcie than like 90% of modern day arm machines incl. the big server ones)

@lanodan @famfo (and yes it runs 4k60 display)

@lanodan @famfo it had sata, iirc the firmware was not capable of booting from nvme, so it needed sata at least for /boot partition (obviously rootfs can be on anything... one of those days i'll post my power mac g5 with 10G networking, nvme root, usb3, and opengl4 gpu)

@famfo @lanodan i'm honestly half surprised it worked (the temps were nice too, and the noise was much lower despite no real fan control... and of course so was the power consumption since you no longer need like 250W worth of fans)

at least on power9 the socket kinda relies on the high pressure heatsink clamping mechanism to work correctly, and this arrangement was using normal thermal paste and everything, so the force/pressure was nowhere near as big

@lanodan @famfo very

(i had two of them)

@lanodan @famfo wanna see my old power8 desktop mod i was dailying in 2019? no? well you'll see it anyway

hm i can't make sense of anything going through my head, it's all confusing and weird though not the worst

i keep thinking about all the awful shit going on and all the awful individuals making it happen and how it makes everyone worse off and how it's probably gonna get much worse in the long run but also i see so much legit cool everywhere and can't help but feel like i actually really like everyone

though maybe not myself

anyway y'all are awesome, just like that, love you

@lanodan @as400 history has shown us enough times what it leads to if you judge anyone based on factors they aren't capable of influencing, like ethnicity/nationality

even if vast majority of russians supported putin, i refuse to treat any being as anything but their own individual

anything else is not only nonsense, but also dangerous

@as400 what are you on about? of course there is a war, and thousands are dying in it every week

it just doesn't give you any right to attack strangers over it when you don't know their position on it and when they haven't done anything to you

i will not tolerate that kind of assholery, and it does not matter if the person is russian or anything else