Posts by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AdgsOlqFx1c03t1Odc by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
2024-01-10T03:41:13Z
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@mmu_man @ActionRetro @jdmcs How long can a Mac II run off the residual voltage in an old CRT?
(DIR) Post #AiFsjr8hLGUIfrXou0 by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
2024-05-25T16:29:04Z
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@ActionRetro There are high performance low profile cards that only draw the 75W allowed by PCIe. I found a WX 3100 with 4GB for 50€ on eBay. That thing can run Fallout 4 just fine and is perfectly happy with just PCIe power. Putting one of those into a Mac Pro seems much more reasonable for actual use (not that I want to complain about your videos, but some people like non-jank).
(DIR) Post #AjD9yZ07dh9CQZElwu by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
2024-06-23T06:50:12Z
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@ActionRetro It would be really great to have tools and resources to actually use devices like this, maybe a bit newer. I have a late 09 MacBook sitting here, and it's 90% workable, but gets just a bit too hot to use without turning it into a furnace. I thought about replacing the internals with an RPi, but that seems pretty involved and I have no idea how to attach these ribbon connectors for display and input.
(DIR) Post #AjQkUFgxpQaDg3YBe4 by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
2024-06-29T20:10:26Z
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@ActionRetro Can we have a video on how to make old-ish machines actually useful for everyday use? I don't expect an Apple II to be a daily driver, but a G5 should be able to get a lot of things done.
(DIR) Post #ArJyV5GQmKTSnDfHmq by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
2025-02-20T20:21:07Z
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@wolf480pl @Kierkegaanks @arstechnica And who would in turn benefit from billions of tax money being funnelled into oversightless Mars projects?
(DIR) Post #Au3GIlWeQdBYsWOUro by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
2025-05-13T06:23:21Z
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@darix @geerlingguy That's why you should have some sort of "work in progress" flag/tag/state. There's a difference between an issue being worked on without being updated and an issue being ignored/not worked on. Ideally, you'd put the issue id in the commit message, so it's clear what's going on. But I have to admit, splitting discussing an issue and working on an issue into two different places is not ideal.
(DIR) Post #B1Pwvb8nTgoNHRstdI by AdmSnackbar@mastodon.social
2025-12-19T20:33:08Z
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@musicmatze @Hemera Writing code for the dumpster of history is kind of our burden, though. My last ticket in my previous job was to rewrite/migrate code that I wrote years earlier as pretty much my first task there.