RussianEngineer

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[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago

4 years? has it really been? fuck... been here since the old CTH lifeboat discord server, so much has changed... so many inside jokes... so many struggle sessions... so many libs...

heres to 4 more years everyone heart-sickle hexbear-retro

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

only if it has one of the chipsets which will allow full DMA over the isa slot, aka the intel 8xx series

the intel 865/875 is the best one as it supports a faster FSB over the older 845 and 815 chipsets

they're kinda rare tho and if it does have one, the 845 with the slower FSB is way more common then the others

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

athlon XPs dont support DMA over their ISA bus. the p4 can with specific chipsets

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

yes, even the awful netbursts have their use. and no, that use is not "spaceheater" even if they do that as a secondary function

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

another issue with the static linking is the larger binary sizes it causes, meaning more of my precious disk space is wasted!!! another big issue on extremely resource limited systems such as 90s equipment with hard drives measured in hundreds of megabytes. i have gentoo running on a OG pentium (coz its one of the few distros left that truely supports it, via their i486 branch) and i have a dedicated hard drive for all the package management files and other caches portage uses lmao

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

a 80386, multiple 80486's, a pentium-133, a pentium2, and two non-sse2 pentium4s. and they all have useful purposes for various things. things you cant do with an emulator

old

stinky

now look here buddy shoulder-grab

modern tech delenda est

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (13 children)

rust takes AGES to compile literally anything. also the compiler on i686 requiring SSE2 instructions is a massive thorn in my side as a old computer user and is the primary driver of my hatred of rust lmao. it gets in my way quite a lot since rust has creeped its way into a lot of open source projects these days

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago

awesome, thanks

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

i just started work rn so ill try this when i get home this evening unless @PaX@hexbear.net gets to it first

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (8 children)

i still exist too, gosh cri

also i tried adding this image as a banner and i think its too tall or somthing it kinda just zooms in on the bear's nose or im just stupid idk

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