m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@gray
Big Endian PowerPC is also poorly supported in Go, 32-bit isn't supported at all and a lot of software is in Go nowadays 😩

@gray
Yeah, it's truly sad that PowerPC failed to take off as mainstream of at the least, enthusiast platform. I still use my PowerPC machines, my own Pemorla instance is running on an old G4 MacMini as you probably know, and I have a PowerMac G5 too.
Sadly, the life of these machines seems to be coming to an and, there seem to be bad and hard to catch bugs in kernels newer than 6.1, which make them run unstable.

@gray
But I have updated most other software in Debian it had — it even has a more or less recent GCC on it, I wasn't cross-compiling it and built it natively — took me ages 😂
I even had to use swapfile on external USB drive, it slows down to a crawl when you do this — but it was worth it, with gccgo I can build some nice software on it natively.
Oh, speaking of Go, almost forgot — it hosts Bloat too!

@gray
Sadly, it was the time when most of the development ceased. I got an Xbox, so it wasn't very useful.
Later I've found a way of using it completely headless as a VPN box and proxy — and this is where it truly got its second life, I still use it in this role, but as you can see, it does so much more now.
It's still running old 2.6 kernel with backported network subsystem, I've never found a way to append device tree and make 3.0 boot on it.

@gray
Sadly, their machines, neither ARM, nor PowerPC ones, didn't get as much community love as Raspberry Pis did.
TBH, it took me years to finally start using my EfikaMX after getting it — so there simply was no way for me to return it 😂
It didn't play well with my TV and I didn't have other HDMI displays at the time. Later I've figured out a way to work that around an I used it as a makeshift media center with TV, it had a web-based remote for Totem in Python.

…it's also connected to an amp and has cmus running on it, so I use it as a digital music player (that 5 Tb drive comes in handy), and I have a web remote for cmus too — so I can control it from phones and other such devices without having to resort to ssh, it has minidlnad running on it — so I can watch movies directly from it on DLNA-capable devices, such as abovementioned TV.
And now it hosts a dedicated ioquake3 server with CPMA too!
All that on just 512 megabytes of RAM 😲

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 😅