m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@fuzzylinuxuser
Is it possible to set it as homepage? 😏

@olmitch
What distro though? systemd-less flavour of Arch? 🤔
@dushman

@englishm
Yeah, did feel complete without this thing! I feel that there should also be PATA ZIF somewhere in between — but that is something that requires further research 😂
@ashley

@scarlett7447
Yes, it's a late 2011 one. Sadly GPU in mine got fried just months after the replacement program got wrapped up — odd TBH as when mine wasn't collecting dust, it was heavily used for making music and I even played games one it when not at home.
I don't miss the discrete GPU itself, but if I could hook it up to external display, I could've even replaced keyboard in it. Aside from not having hardware H265 decoder, this machine isn't lacking in any aspect to me, I like it.

@scarlett7447
Always a pleasure to meet fellow PowerPC enthusiast running Void!
Maybe we should somehow coordinate our efforts — at least to provide update dotconfig files for newer kernels for the mainline void-packages and maybe even put our up-to-date xbps-packages somewhere — so each one of us doesn't have to rebuild them individually. Some software takes time to build even on modern machines, like gcc, llvm, rust, mesa, firefox… And building natively on these machines might take days 😩

@condret
I'm surprised it's still not implemented TBH.
And while I think it would struggle describing some things, it's still better than nothing and it could be used just as a base for uploader to improve by highlighting the details he wishes to.

@mirabilos
Oh, on that instance I have even less posts and followers and…When it's under load — and it's also my seedbox, printserver, it hosts SimplyTranslate and Git and few more things, I sometimes do not receive all the replies in a timely manner, I can't see all the comments in some threads — at times, I'm surprised that it works at all — still, not bad for an experiment with rare architecture: https://breloma.m0xee.net/users/m0xEE
Right now it's building LLVM for PPC natively so it might not even open😂

@scarlett7447
A1297 — last of the seventeen inch kind. With 16 gigs of RAM — still a quite capable machine I must say. And my battery is still at its 73% capacity.
I have two letter keys stuck, but as it runs linux now, I have easily remapped them to two unused ones — Exposé and Launchpad keys, typing texts like this is… unusual, but I mostly use it for passive browsing and watching movies in bed — its display is perfect for it.

@scarlett7447
What distro does it run?
I'm finishing migrating my G4 MacMini and PowerMac G5 from Void PPC port to mainline void-packages and I have to say I had to build A LOT, and to crossbuild half of it to even make it possible, and of course fix a lot of breakages, but now I have up-to-date software on my PowerPC Macs 😁
G5 is already running kernel 6.5.13 even, I don't think it would be a problem to build one for G4, but would take days, considering my Pleroma instance is running on it 😅

@mja
OMG, I have boosted Pooteen! What have I done?! We're DOOMED!!!1 😱

@scarlett7447
Fully agree, I don't even think it looks "dated" — more like "traditional" — just like the pre-Unibody ones. And I don't like glossy displays either — the only reason I have one — I've been too lazy to wait for a custom-built one and the standard issue ones sold around these parts only had glossy displays, I noticed it because the ones like your were more rare 😅

@mirabilos Yes, Go is definitely a problem! gccgo (not the reference toolchain) works on big endian 64-bit PowerPC and I think I have even managed to build it for 32-bit PPC in the past, but I can't seem to be able to do it anymore — syscall definitions are missing, and while adding these should be possible, making all the external modules word would probably be a bigger challenge.
And it runs Void Linux already — so at least that won't be a problem 😁

@scarlett7447
Does your 17" MBP have a matte screen? I still use mine and it's kinda unusual to see it without the black bezel 😅

@mirabilos
So it doesn't work too well on a machine with just 1 gig? Good to know!
I was thinking about using it instead of Pleroma on my old G4 MacMini. Pleroma lags and timeouts too under load of course and I was thinking GotoSocial might be bit easier on the hardware, but looks like there's no point in exchanging one for the other 😩