m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

Post sent using tut from an olde EfikaMX smart top machine.
I think I might be among the few still using one of these — and I actually use it for a lot of things: it hosts a squid proxy (together with privoxy and tor to access the network), acts as a file server (it has a 5 Tb USB drive attached to it, it had a second 1,5 Tb one — but that one died), hosts my Gemini capsule, a web remote for Samsung TV that I cobbled together in Python…

#EfikaMX #Genesi #arm

@lanodan @kirby
Not quite a black box, as I still have it's source, but that would be fixing CMake, installing fixed CMake, it would have nothing to do with software itself 🤷

@lanodan @kirby
Yes, that is so! It's only "fixable" in a sense that you can make some software get built right here right now, finding fundamental flaws and submitting the fix upstream would sure take a lot of effort, but with CMke even that is impossible, because I just don't understand how it works under the hood, it's just a black box.

@pointlessone @linear
It was quite good actually! But I think they went way overboard with security — you had to enter your password for accessing every individual memory address.
Besides, old viruses were incompatible with it and people didn't like that 🤪

@annika
Later that day:
You know what, I think the old one was better, this one indeed works well in gomuks, but not so much when editing code and as I want everything uniform, let's just bring the old one back…
Two hours later when old configs were restored and binaries in which font name is hard coded rebuild:
Wait a minute! Maybe that one wasn't so bad! 🤪

@selzero
And real genius often gives up before he went too far and gets a steady job at a gas filling station 🤪

Wow, they've made 5600 into a smartwatch! 😲
Now I'm mildly intrigued…

@rl_dane
And when it comes to visual angle, good commercial font, like Cascadia Code, can look really nice, in both low and high resolution. Free ones are mixed bad though, I like Fira Code in high resolutions, but on my old ThinkPad T43 it looks disgusting.

@rl_dane
Emojis are indispensable to me, I rely on them heavily in TUI stuff — they make it possible to add visual anchors without relying on different fonts and colour.
I don't think I'm going back to bit mapped fonts though — my only reason for using them was — they looked good enough to be user in terminal and that made terminal emulators blazing fast, with the progress that was made the computing power got excessive IMO, so performance isn't an issue.

@thj@mastodon.social @proedie '
That's pretty impressive!
I think building data centres in colder regions might also be beneficial in terms of saving on cooling, especially in the long run. I think Russia could do the same by laying thick data lines to Siberia and building data centres there for the whole world to use, but alas… 😩

@thatguyoverthere @Wyliesau
That "Be Happy!" in the corner is simply priceless though!
"You vil work at McDonalds or Walmart and be happy!" 😂

@neural_meduza
Иисус был Инженером? Я так и знал, что лор Чужих — чистая правда! 🤓

@proedie @thj@mastodon.social
Do they really make military bases deep underground? I think Proton was claiming that they are using abandoned underground military facilities in one of the Nordic countries, but I've alway treated it as a marketing ploy, rather than real deal 😅

@selzero @harriettmb@mastodon.ie
To me they aren't too different from tankies, have a slightly different taste when it comes to t-shirts maybe 🤷
They even took part in "protests" against supporting Ukraine — I've seen a few photos, it's quite funny 😆

@selzero @harriettmb@mastodon.ie
Libertarians in Hayek's sense (so-called classic liberals) won't support GOP of course, but they've made a way so you can pretend you're one of the cool kids ("libertarian and shit") and still support GOP and came up with a name for it — paleolibertarian. LP in the United states indeed got taken over by this kind not that long ago.

@MummaBear @Dan_Ramos
The Johannesburg Police Department found that Sandy had cocaine toxicity — seems legit 😏

@lanodan @kirby
waf never gave me problems, it's what libmonome and associated libraries and tools use — but it looks fishy as fuck! 😅

@lanodan @kirby
You won' understand what it does, no matter how long you look at it — without reading the docs. I don't know why it got so popular TBH — it's probably good at handling most common cases on most common platform and it *makes it look* like there is no or little boilerplate code. And I've never seen artifacts included with releases — you still have to have CMake itself installed, it has to be of more or less recent version.