Notices by Pawlicker (pawlicker@makai.chaotic.ninja)

@theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe @sun@shitposter.world yes turbo C and C++ were the Borland C compilers, notably used for Touhou on the PC-98 and tons of DOS games on the PC.

@YTFoidLover1488@poa.st @theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe @sun@shitposter.world you can use djgpp on the pc98 kinda sorta, watcom nope

@sun@shitposter.world @theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe I'm not gonna spoil it just yet but I've obtained another "missing link" in the PC-98 OS lineage that's heading to my house.

I'll announce it when I dump it likely. In the meantime I've been scanning in PC-98 era books, and I have some Turbo Pascal manuals to scan for the PC-98 (when I am not struggling with IRL drama and work)

@sun@shitposter.world @theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe on the pc98 it wasn't as popular because unlike turbo c/c++ it was undumped for years until I literally paid like $200 give or take for a copy to dump and it is not the only undumped PC-98 thing I have dumped too

@theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe @sun@shitposter.world https://archive.org/details/turbo-pascal-pc-98-6.0-fd

So I've been thinking, after setting up my Canon 9500 on Windows 11 with "old drivers" for 8.1, just how bad ARM windows is going to be with printers.

ARM windows printing essentially relies on built-in drivers, and the new "driverless printing" craze where all the printer companies and OS companies got together to develop "universal" printers that'll print with any OS. This is a boon for phones, "less supported" OSes such as Windows RT/ARM or Linux, and other devices where you no longer have to fiddle with print drivers.

There's just one issue: there's no manufacturer specific "universal" drivers like there for say HPs on Android (that'll print to even older printers like the Photosmarts or PCL6 LaserJets), and there's tons and tons of printers that won't work on ARM but have good driver support on CUPS or x86/AMD64 Windows.

It's the problem everyone had with Vista all over again.

@mint@ryona.agency sounds about right for some of that shit (different driver/similar weirdness)

@mint@ryona.agency all I got was "cameras not working after flashing" which happened twice at least.

It's interesting to see the difference between ewaste in the early 2010s and ewaste today.

I had a Fire Phone (fire sale edition) back in the day before I gave it away to someone. People online were passing around guides on how to install Android ROMs on it, or to install Google Play Services if you didn't want to gamble with a custom ROM (since custom roms sometimes had "funny" side effects from experience). People would openly buy orphaned devices back when tablets and phones were still $$$ to mess with them and make them more usable.

The whole culture of "buying an i-opener just to mod it" and "modding an Xbox as a fuck you to MS" was still around. You also didn't need to login to say, some network system to "activate" a device or force firmware updates (iPhone, Xbox One, Oculus Quest 2, increasingly more these days) and Android/similar devices back in the day were usually not locked down.

Then Google and carriers put an end to that and big corporations did too in the name of security. Sure your phone might be vulnerable to shit like Stagefright or Heartbleed, Dirtycow, and many other Linux kernel bugs, or stuck on an old SSL version, but hey at least the bootloader is locked so you won't be running tampered software, right?

What's going to happen to all the Quest 2s if facebook pulls the plug?

RE: https://makai.chaotic.ninja/notes/9z4smmy0k5

@kirby@lab.nyanide.com let's go 100mph in a nissan altima cranking gotta go fast and getting hihg as fuck

@kirby@lab.nyanide.com hotel mario theme for GAY LUIGI and SPAGHETTI

@kirby@lab.nyanide.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65uNCLBTje0

@silverfish@yourwalls.today @radmin@limepeeps.perchinup.top @allison@hidamari.apartments @penny@mk.noob.quest @sapphire@shortstacksran.ch the problem is also the corporate environment is where they've hyperfixated on certain issues so hard that a lot of shit that should be taken down slips past the "moderation" that any single competent admin on a smaller instance would have taken care of already.

There are actual gore spammers and worse on fedi and you or the admin can block their instance. You can only click report on a big tech site and gamble hoping it's taken down.

@allison@hidamari.apartments @xianc78@gameliberty.club @ensix@fedi.halcyon-is.land @penny@mk.noob.quest related, the developer of Hotline on what he would have done differently.

@allison@hidamari.apartments @ensix@fedi.halcyon-is.land @penny@mk.noob.quest if you're anti capitalist and not using AGPL V3, you're not doing it right.

Corporations HATE this one weird license that says "you must put the code you use online as well" (LEARN WHY TODAY!).

@allison@hidamari.apartments @ensix@fedi.halcyon-is.land @penny@mk.noob.quest it seems like a lot of businessmen types tend to take advantage of coders/younger nerds who don't know anything.

@penny@mk.noob.quest @ensix@fedi.halcyon-is.land this is literally a grade A example of why you hire a lawyer when signing any business deal to explain it all.

@ensix@fedi.halcyon-is.land @penny@mk.noob.quest holy shit lmao what kind of arrangement is that

@sapphire@shortstacksran.ch @allison@hidamari.apartments @penny@mk.noob.quest IMO though, this is proof that the fedi model works better.

Sure, fedi instances go down for stupid reasons but you can spin new ones up. When Cohost is down, it's down for good.

@sapphire@shortstacksran.ch @allison@hidamari.apartments @penny@mk.noob.quest when you're anti capitalist but you can't even use the AGPL V3