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@ezio Install commercial BSD in your Pentium :02smile:

Chimera Linux on PC with Power characteristics :02lurk:

Seems to work okay aside from the cursor not showing when I use light theme (ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

@lanodan I expect they'd at least not regress what they managed to do in the GNOME 2 days

Am I just seeing things or did GNOME really removed the ability to tile wallpapers? :cirnothinking:

Seems like the combination of PowerPC Mac, disk encryption, and Linux (at least in Chimera) is a rather temperametal one...

Ended up having to add GPU and USB HID modules to initrd preload list (in Chimera, in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules):

nouveau
radeon
usbhid

Otherwise I'll get into a situation where I could neither see the password prompt nor input any disk password :akkoderp:

I'm sure there's a better way to do this but it works, it's midnight, I'm tired and I don't think I have the energy to test out things further so :akkoderp:

@pixel Vibe coding?

> Copying lots of files to an external drive
> 14 MiB/s, even though both drives and the USB port are obviously capable of so much more

:akko_aaa:

The idea that OoO processors still needing to decode and issue instructions in-order really confuses me... until I somehow got into a long queue at a McDonald's drive-through :akkoderp:

*decode and commit, lol
Issuing instructions to execution units is the part that can be done out-of-order

Like, the staff apparently is cooking our food out-of-order but since everyone's waiting in one long queue the food must be delivered in-order.
And since, for some reason our food took a long time to be ready so we ended up waiting there at the counter, blocking God knows how many other people behind...

I suppose this is what the techies call "processor stalls because the ROB head is blocked" :02smile:

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/i/158157210/the-drive-through-restaurant-analogy

Funny that apparently someone managed to come to the same metaphor, two and a half years later :haha:

It's very curious that bigname FOSS compilers that do have a Solaris port are dropping support for 11.3 and earlier versions

I wonder why is that :cirnothinking:

@kaia I thought being in that line of work would have you own a lot of clothing for variation :cirnothinking:

@Makura Enjoy the thing, avoid the fanbase
Sometimes it is good to wait until the hype dies down before delving into some media exactly because of that :02lurk:

@puniko What about :char_nachoneko_baa:

How do I speak in language :cirnothinking:

:02lurk:

@a1ba Huh, funny that they actually implemented all the VIS extensions but skipped the UA/OSA ones (particularly, no hardware cryptography!)

Also,
> +/* This is an MCST specific version of store. Hopefully, it hasn't been
> + implemented anywhere else in this file since binutils-2.18 . . . */
> +{ "stda", F3(3, 0x37, 0), F3(~3, ~0x37, ~0)|ASI(0x30), "H,2,[1]A", 0, 0, 0, v9 }, /* stda d,rs2, [rs1] */

I wonder if this is a 128-bit atomic store? VIS2 already specifies a 128-bit atomic load instruction so it makes sense to provide the counterpart.
Though on the other hand the lack of 128-bit atomic CAS is very odd, given that - unless you're playing weird games with your page permissions - most, if not all stores can be emulated with a CAS.
(Though this applies too to Sun's rather weird decision here lol)

@kaia Interesting that they don't do ESL certifications

Was thinking that TOEFL is done by them hah