Notices by mnemonicoverload (mnemonicoverload@libranet.de)

@hippiegunnut
Oh yeah, completely understandable. A ton of projects like this and hobbiest projects in general have had to make major hardware revisions over the past 3.5 years due to various parts shortages. An example that springs to mind is devices using the Arduino Blue Pill at their core that became unobtanium during that time having to be completely redesigned to use eg the RP2040.

@thomasfuchs

@martinvermeer
Hopefully, yeah. The current state of that generation is not great in that regard. My one teenage nephew was absolutely aghast that I imported a latam market phone to get the model I wanted. I had to explain to him that just because my cellular provider doesn't approve doesn't automatically mean it's illegal. 🤦

@hacks4pancakes

@thetechtutor
Good thing Aral's original post is calling out Israel (the state, and by extension its leaders) and not Israelis (the people as a whole) then, eh?

@jbburd @aral

@geekylou
There's a bunch of things at play that make the C64 floppy drives slower (and more expensive!) than others at the time. The primary limitation is that it's transmitting over a serialized version of a IEEE-488 parallel bus (similar to GP-IB). Nodes on this bus are essentially simple stand alone computers with limited resources. In the case of the C64 this means that not only is there handshaking and framing overhead on any data transmitted on the bus, but the drive can only read from the disk (254 bits at a time) into its own internal buffer OR transmit read data from the buffer over the bus to the computer. It can't do both at the same time (at least not with the stock drive firmware and Kernal routines in the C64s ROM).

[So-called "Fastloader" routines commonly used by games to circumvent the transfer speed issue do so by patching over the drive firmware and Kernal routines with their own custom code that violates the bus standard rendering other nodes that might be on the bus like printers unusable in favour of faster transfers.]

@nina_kali_nina @Havoc

@jfreebo
Such a good essay. I remember reading it early in the pandemic and it really had a profound effect on me.

@morgan @jjfphd

@MediaActivist
Personally I differentiate between "Google" (actual product name) and "google" (genericized synonym for web search like saying "kleenex" instead of facial tissue). I already have enough things to be angry about. 😂

@jonobie

@Seg
OS/2 2.0 is rough until you remember it was competing with Windows 3.0 alone. As far as drivers for graphics and the CD-ROM the original system probably would have shipped with driver floppies for those same as they would have for the equivalent DOS or Windows versions. Having them rolled into the OS install wouldn't have been common at that point.

Really though, if you want to experience the OS/2 that most people actually remember fondly you need to go for OS/2 Warp 3, at least. That's where it really came into its own. I'd say give it a try, that PC you have there should run it well and it would have been the natural upgrade path for someone who owned that system in period.

@paulschoe

I think that says a lot about how Dorsey sees the platform (and how he saw Twitter): A place where celebrities / influencers provide content to consumers, not a network of peers. He's not building a social network, he's building a parasocial network.

@mahaska @Alexx9811 @m @atomicpoet @stefan @fediversenews

@Radical_EgoCom
Education is important, yes. It's not on everyone to do it though. "From each, according to their ability." Education isn't going to be everyone's strength, and that's okay. We can all contribute in our own ways.

@FinalOverdrive