Post Ax0bdosHQ01rwKX39E by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
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(DIR) Post #Ax0b6FdRPsfL5gaJbU by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-09T23:31:59Z
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Am unexpected part of getting old is realizing you can get more computing power than your second or third desktop PC for 10$, next day shipping
(DIR) Post #Ax0bLKQfsH0wIqnp0y by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-09T23:34:43Z
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I miscalculated. This thing is 1.2 ghz, 256mb ram, running Linux. I didn't have that much power until... God, college?
(DIR) Post #Ax0bdosHQ01rwKX39E by whitneymcn@mastodon.xyz
2025-08-09T23:37:57Z
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@foone When I said "look, you probably don't need 32 megs of RAM unless you're doing some pretty insane graphics stuff" I wasn't wrong. It was just quite some years ago, now.
(DIR) Post #Ax0biTI75lomRqpkOm by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-09T23:38:55Z
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Yeah I had an iBook G3, which maxed out at 900mhz, and 256mb ram standard.That was like 1300-1700$ in 2003. So 2300-3000$ today.VS 10$. Shipped.
(DIR) Post #Ax0bwuU6mgCqqEKSqu by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-09T23:41:32Z
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For a very American comparison, I typed "hamburger" into a food delivery thing and it told me 11.80$, plus delivery fees.
(DIR) Post #Ax0c0uMv9noXdksE52 by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-09T23:42:09Z
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I've known for a while you can get entire computers for less than the price of a sandwich but I hadn't fully come to terms with how much of a computer you can get for less than the price of a burger
(DIR) Post #Ax0cXeMlftslZ8Plg0 by plaidtron3000@jorts.horse
2025-08-09T23:48:05Z
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@foone I can get two Raspberry Pi Zeros for that price, and still have enough left whatever I can get for $1.80Assuming I can still find a Zero. And that it isn't being sold at some incredible markup.
(DIR) Post #Ax0e9CvwDXJFRWL0Ns by gh0s1@infosec.exchange
2025-08-10T00:06:01Z
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@foone which computer is this?
(DIR) Post #Ax0eLkOrcD7wiEqZqS by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-10T00:08:25Z
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@gh0s1 Luckfox Pico Max
(DIR) Post #Ax0f9EX6N2fWMEITdA by will@www.librepunk.club
2025-08-10T00:16:53Z
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@foone Wait what kind of computer are you getting?
(DIR) Post #Ax0gNF3dJgTjzdkzWi by raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place
2025-08-10T00:31:03Z
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@foone GHZ/GHZ isn't a great way to compare processors unless everything else is identical but still that's pretty nice, one of the RISC-V boards?Probably roughly comparable to my first laptop (bought used in 2003, is a 1999 thinkpad A22M, i still have it and use it sometimes, 800mhz celeron, upgraded to 512MB ram, two cardbus slots, orinoco gold cards of course)
(DIR) Post #Ax0i1hFzzUcKzQOYgC by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-10T00:49:32Z
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@raptor85 it's an ARM Cortex A7. if I had my iBook G3 handy I'd do some comparative benchmarks!
(DIR) Post #Ax0kB3w3F6xLq7et72 by vurpo@mastodon.coffee
2025-08-10T01:13:34Z
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@foone the contemporary age: luxuries are getting unreasonably cheap while essentials are getting unreasonably expensive
(DIR) Post #Ax0pnTYuuVyu5wyRA8 by scm@sfba.social
2025-08-10T02:16:38Z
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@foone The best single user computer I occasionally had access to in college, an sgi, had 256mb of ram and iirc 4 400mhz CPUs… probably about on par with that $10 computer 😆
(DIR) Post #Ax0s6YHFntqU83w5jc by kirakira@furry.engineer
2025-08-10T02:42:27Z
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@foone how much processing power does the burger have
(DIR) Post #Ax0sMjK6VF5f1Lz1vc by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-10T02:45:28Z
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@kirakira I dunno, I don't eat burgers. maybe someone could do the math to figure out how many calories mental math takes up, and you could figure out from the nutritional facts
(DIR) Post #Ax0sPHdNuGOU0uDeuu by foone@digipres.club
2025-08-10T02:45:50Z
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@kirakira I have a "run doom on humans" project on the backburner and I can't wait to find out how many hertz humans are
(DIR) Post #Ax11LwaEcEDTRcEDtg by bifo@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-08-10T04:26:03Z
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@foone Milk-V Duo 256? Those are fun. Have you seen the Luckfox Pico Mini B? You can plug one directly in to a modern PC like a dongle and remote into it with some trickery and a USB-C to A converter
(DIR) Post #Ax15QwilvlON8UrWy0 by smellsofbikes@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T05:11:47Z
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@foone I can get a Pi Pico for less than the ski area I was at last weekend was charging for a glass of diet coke.
(DIR) Post #Ax1OfO9cd8NNOx1OVs by mariejulien@mastodon.social
2025-08-10T08:47:21Z
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@foone and do nothing like the things you did with that desktop because nothing is optimized anymore 😥.
(DIR) Post #Ax1bDpYsR4bjhR1Xxg by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
2025-08-10T11:08:31.033975Z
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@foone Yes, proprietary software is just that bloated now that a computer that has 256 million bytes of RAM and a CPU that is almost clocked at a billion Hz has no chance of running it - thus such old computers are regarded as worthless."running Linux" is a false claim - as that kernel does not run by itself.Is it running GNU/Linux or BusyBox/Linux?