TimeSquirrel

KDE because I have 64GB and I don’t care about memory usage and I like using a computer that looks like it’s from the 2010s at least.

Printing debug messages didn’t do much for me for this one time where a class was overflowing a buffer right in the constructor, and everything was fine creating an instance of it, passing it around, etc., until I actually go to use one of its methods later on in the program and it crashes. It was C++ on an ESP32 and I had to decode the stack trace and everything to find it, took me hours because I had to learn what even to do with a stack trace. The Espressif forums kinda suck balls, they are a ghost town.

For higher throughput in middle age, I recommend Edge-ing, and then going back to a real browser.

On Windows CE.

Smoothwall. I used to run it a lot back in the early 2000s for personal use and even helped set up a couple small businesses with it but I don’t hear of anyone else using it these days, people seem to love openwrt and pfsense more.

It was great for just taking any old x86 machine and making a powerful, fully featured firewall/router out of it, including a VPN server, all through a web interface. Nowadays that’s boring shit but in 2002 it was pretty cool.

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Are we just going to let Ballmer walk?

Year 2070: A young man in a dirty, run down, four mile tall high-rise reaching into the smog and covered in holographic ads and QR code graffiti lays down and plugs his newly upgraded gaming system into the port in the back of his head, closes his eyes, and enters the virtual realm for some much needed reality escape. He tests his hardware by running glxgears. The toothed discs appear before him in the empty void, spinning smoothly and silently, assuring him that in a few moments, he can imagine a different life, if only for just a few hours.

How do I type something? There’s a cursor but keyboard input doesn’t work for me. You oughtta make it do some dummy commands for fun, or better yet, some real ones in a sandbox, that’d be neat, for fun user interactivity. Otherwise, looks slick. Good job.

Debian user here, something wrong with getting the maximum lifespan you can out of devices and keeping them out of landfills?

Before I upgraded last year, I was still using an i7 from 2010 with 8GB RAM and a 1 TB mechanical spinning drive. I jumped to a 12 core socket AM5 Ryzen 9 with 64GB RAM and a 4TB SSD. When I upgrade, I do it all at once and make sure it can last and actually do use the machine for a decade or more.

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I’m too old to be nostalgic for skeuomorphism. But a retina-burning amber monochrome monitor, text mode, with menus and UIs built out of ASCII graphics, or at best, 640 x 480 CPU-driven graphics modes? Now you’re talking.

From my perspective, the skeuomorphic era of the early-late 2000s is still “modern”.

That’s why I went with Red hat back then. They were sort of the gold standard and everything kinda just worked. Not as well as “it just works” Linux nowadays, but it used to be pretty good and easier to use, relatively speaking, compared to the other distros of the time.

Dependency hell still sucked.

Man that sucks. Imagine if modern desktop PCs still had an option to just power on and run nothing except a memory resident editor/monitor, waiting until you start writing assembly code to start booting the CPU.

Picking my nose in traffic…

I’m just a hobbyist but…are you guys using exceptions like they’re conditional statements?? I thought those were for only when shit is seriously wrong and execution can’t continue in the current state. Like if some resource was in a bad state or some input was malformed.

Or maybe I haven’t worked on anything complex enough, I dunno.

Panasonic Toughbook: you accidentally applied to a job on an oil rig.

Adjusts Son’a skin stretcher.

Sometimes you’ll notice the side effects, like if you have a small OLED or LCD screen and start getting garbage characters in your strings.

for (auto it = line.begin(); it != line.end(); it++) { snort(line); }