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A modern, scratch-built, open-source (GPLv3) alternative ROM BIOS for PC, XT, 8088 Clone or Turbo PCs.
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At one point it appeared cheaper than conventional insurance; dome people might have been chasing that instead of religious kookery.
When I worked for a firm too small to offer insurance, and there was still a mandate with teeth, a broker I visited suggested it because it was ~$250 per month compared with 400 for real insurance.
Gotta say, though, the Hexbears are havibg fun with it. Some communities seem sort of dour by comparison.
FWIW, SDF probably skews a bit anarchist, but if there's a founding principle behind the organization, it's "a harem of cute girls, and they picked the PDP-11"
Right there that's where we went wrong. Back when Dracula was in charge the prices of groceries were reasonable, and he only needed a few virgins a year sacrificed.
Ooh, Monorail Cat is back in service!
TBH, I agree with you. I like Genshin but can't really get into ZZZ.
Part of it is that I dislike the "hollow" framing device-- it smells like the crummy isekai-to-a-MMORPG trope, and abandons the idea of "vast world to explore", but it also feels like the combat isn't as rich in general. The characters have different movesets but it doesn't feel like it makes much difference in gameplay
Why not nasm? Are you actually targeting DOS?
I bought my current wallet because I was about to visit the UK and my typical Anerican sized wallet was too small for £20 and £50 notes.
That one was also self-purchased; it was made out of paper-thin plastic and dye-sublimated with a slightly oversized image of a KRW50000 note.
I clearly care what other peoole think of my choice of accessories.
My company originally said you got two free days off per year, outside the accrued PTO: one for your birthday, and one for parity because office #2 got a state holiday that #1 didn't.
Now they moved to the "unlimited PTO" gimmick which has no right answer for how much time you can take off, so I follow the old PTO accrual schedule for my seniority as a guide.
I'd think random was probably both cheap to inplement (once you have a database, ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1 is easy) and great for engagement (encourages repeated gacha-pull behaviour looking for an interesting new sub).
I wonder if it portends a degradation of the subreddit concept as a whole-- why let people navigate to a focused section directly when they should be looking at an algorithmic feed that delivers "almost what you're looking for" in a way that maximizes scrolling.
How does this spin to customers?
Okay, my checking account is no longer guaranteed in the event of your inevitable ambition-related collapse. Are you going to pay me speculative-investment class interest rates to justify me trusting you with the money? Or should I just go back to notes under the mattress?
It's for the Chicken PDF, silly!
But good ghouls get headpats!
That's the flavour of vampire mind control they never mention in the stories.
CDE supports it.
Just to be clear, the chicken sandwich itself holds no ill will to the homosexual community. Sandwiches are generally incapable of hate.
Sadly, the ghouls that own the company that makes the sandwiches are incapable of reaching the same level of human empathy that an inanimate foodstuff can.
Aside from that, you ain't missing much. It tasted weird and sweet 20 years ago when they started selling them here, before the controversy.
Doesn't saying they're not "subject to jurisdiction" mean they're outside general reach of the legal system, like a crime-drama character claiming diplomatic immunity?
I'd love to see someone pull that string.
I wonder where "same language, different encoding" turns into "new language"
The morse-derived shorthand used by radio enthusiasts might be similar.
Sigil of Motif (rare)
- +2 to disguise, if you are attempting to pass for 20 years older than you are
- Stacks with Cape of fvwm
Warhammer of cfdisk (common)
- Cannot be dodged
- Roll 1d10. On critical fail, smash yourself with warhammer for 5d4 damage.
Is vampirism or zombification an option?
I tried pulling in the theming from there, and while it works miracles, I still want to do the three-headed dragon meme:
- Real Motif apps
- Qt5 apps (where there's a Motif-like theme baked in)
- GTK apps, which don't honour the same fonts and the theme is far more divergent from the "real deal"
There are a few other "Solaris 9" and "Perl Tk" lookalike themes that also come close, but they're all sabotaged by GTK's lack of bitmap font support (The old bitmap Helvetica is my go-to UI font)
I think those are Hungarian banknotes.
Account Required, 2FA, Contract Signed In Blood... to see a PDF.
(Alt: The Drake meme. Upper panel shows him hiding his face from "Securing Customer Data". Lower panel shows him smirking at "Securing Public API Documentation")
It's still 1994 here!
The wallpaper is one of the standard XBM images included with the X11 distribution (in OpenBSD, it's at /usr/X11R6/include/X11/bitmaps/mensetmanus).
The fonts are the Modern DOS collection (8x8 for the battery status, 8x16 for the terminal). The window titles use the classic bitmap Helvetica which has no antialiasing and gives it a unique "Vintage system" vibe.
I was going to give it a full CDE install, but the build guides don't seem to work right; I might switch to SparkyLinux for this machine because suspending fails just often enough to be annoying.
2.5GbE router for home use
I've been prepping my home network for the promise of "fibre coming soon" in my city.
That meant wrapping the house in Cat6A like a giant arachnid nest, and having a couple desktops with 2.5GbE on board, but I'm not sure what to do about the routing setup. I have three Ethernet runs to "30cm from the ISP equipment" now.
For gigabit in this scenario, the turnkey solution is any random Wi-Fi/router/firewall box which has 1Gb WAN and four 1Gb LAN ports. But where do you go when you start wanting 2.5GbE?
It seems like the "Wifi/Router/firewall" boxes with 2.5GbE ports are quite spendy, especially if you want more than one LAN port. I know a lot of this cost is because they tend to be the latest-and-greatest in terms of Wi-Fi, with 82 antennae, but that's only a secondary consideration for me with the heavy users on wires. Hell, my smartphone only supports the 2.4GHz band!
It seems like other options include:
- 2-box solution: A slightly cheaper Wifi-Router with 2.5GbE WAN and one LA
This 9v battery contained six cells stacked like a layer cake
Picture of a disassembled Duracell 9v battery. Below the terminal assembly is a clear plastic case where you can see six sets of stacked rectangular terminals and fillings.
Mini-Review: Gamemax Titan Silent chassis
Writing this up because I haven't seen a proper review.
Note I've only been using the case for about a day so I don't have a strong baseline on thermals; this is mostly about the build experience.
Why I was interested My preference towards cases is very old-school. I like external drive bays, and have no interest in tempered glass or RGB. My long-term daily driver was a Cooler Master HAF XB, which is a delight to build in and offers exceptional expandability for its size.
The one place it's sort of limited is depth for GPU-- I have an ASRock OC Formula 6900XT, and it's 330mm, and you have to remove front fans and carefully wiggle to get it out of a slot. This has resulted in me breaking the stupid clip on my mainboard.
So I had a $125 rebate voucher burning a hole in my pocket and a growing sense that most of the remaining cases with drive bays will be gone in another year or two, so I'd better get one now or it will be gone.
The obvious question Yes, the front panel ca
The Chinese Expansionist Threat the Western Media won't tell you about!
From the description of some random eBay listing. The text reads:
"Shipping: Free Economy Shipping from Greater China to worldwide. See details.
International shipment of items may be subject to customs processing and additional charges. (information icon)
Located in: Sofia, Bulgaria"
We spent so long staring at Taipei that nobody noticed when the entire PLA burrowed its way through the Earth and popped up in Eastern Europe!
Hopefully they brought some Belt and Road infrastructure cash. I don't think they've been doing so hot since the Warsaw Pact fell.
FVWM is all you really need
(screenshot of a rxvt window decorated with a fvwm theme. The title bar is rotated to the left and highlighted in red with white text, and reads 'marada@kalutika:~'.
The window is green-on-black and contains a vim session with the text 'You may not like it, but this is what peak desktop performance looks like.
Each window has a clear, square border around the edge. You know where one window ends and the next begins, and exactly where you can drag to resize them, even if you stack one Dark Mode window slightly ajar of another.
There's a titlebar that has a huge segment which can be clicked and dragged to move the window, rather than tiny icons and a search bar eating up all but a handful of pixels. The active window has a distinct colour you can immediately pick out.
That title bar is mounted on the side, so it's not consuming precious screen real estate when the trend is towards 52:9 aspect-ratio ultrawide monitors whichbarely have enough vertical space for one full
What did the original IBM PC do "better?"
At the time the original 5150 was released, there were already other 8088 and 8086 systems on the market. And it didn't really strain the envelope-- no IBM-exclusive chips, and the whole 8-bit bus and support chips angle.
It undoubtedly succeeded in large part because it was a "known quantity" for commercial customers-- an approved vendor, known support and warranty policies, too big to fail. I know even as late as the mid-80s, Commodore was still advertising "You're paying $$$ more (for a PCjr instead of a 64) because the box says IBM on it"
But I was curious if there was anything that it also offered that was uniquely compelling in the at the moment of launch.
There are a few things I can think of, but I'm a little skeptical of most of them:
- The monochrome display (5151) was very well-regarded; 80x25 of very legible text and a nice long-persistence phosphor. I had one for a while in the 90s and it was quite good even though the geometry was shot. But was it much better than
Remember when vertical titlebars were the ultimate cool?
The KiCAD project is effectively complete (it's a memory card for an 8088-class PC), but it sure makes the workspace look exciting.
The background is one of the New Horizons photos.
GLaBIOS - a modern BIOS for XT clones
I've been using it recently on a machine that formerly used a tweaked version of the "Anonymous Super Turbo XT BIOS" and it offers subtle, modest improvements.
In my narrow experience, it fixed some freeze issues with Civilization when using a NEC processor, and the boot display is clean and more informative.