Posts by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
(DIR) Post #AS1PRoCEMXQn60AKAK by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2023-01-25T01:10:35.088704Z
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The #floppy museum on a floppy - http://floppy.museum - has been updated!@obsoletemediauk provided new content, new hardware was installed, updated site info, and a new floppy - the old one was exhibiting the exhilarating sounds of General Error..See http://floppy.museum/thispc.htm for details. #retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #ASaRg29nNmPA1wHYES by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2023-02-02T23:02:50.779346Z
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I give you ... the worlds slowest #486, and among the weirdest pieces of #retro #hardware I own!This is a PCChips M216A(1) motherboard, originally with a 20MHz(!) #286 CPU.Plop in a Make-It-486(2), consisting of a TI TX486SLC CPU, a Cyrix Cx87SLC FPU, and some supporting chips - and you have a marvellously horribly uselessly slow #486 PC!It runs so hot I had to add a heat sink and a fan. And since the motherboard has no fan power, but also no FPU (since the upgrade contains one), I pulled ground and +5V from the 80287 socket :DOnce I find a 286 motherboard with a socketed CPU which can support a full 16MB RAM I'll transplant this one and attempt to run the latest #OpenBSD or #NetBSD on it. For now I'll settle for #DOS and #OpenCubicPlayer and other fun stuff.#retropc #retrohardware #retrocomputing #midlifecrisis 1) https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchips-m216a2) https://www.cpushack.com/2014/08/30/improve-technologies-make-it-486-286-upgrade/
(DIR) Post #AVRp6GmmHuSlaFVFhY by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2023-05-08T14:17:17.218379Z
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Må være på grunn av skrivefeilen.#norsktut #allheimen
(DIR) Post #AYvgBOMCm1neWX7wmW by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2023-08-20T17:42:54.686439Z
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Installing #OS/2 2.11 - the last version in the 2.x series - on real hardware: TI486DXL-40 (a 386-class 40MHz CPU with 1KB L1 cache) with 16MB RAM.#Retrocomputing #Nostalgia #MidLifeCrisis #Floppy
(DIR) Post #AnO1MW9AbTvXQrnUsi by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2024-10-25T21:00:40.673362Z
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ezIRC/2 -> irssi + irssi_proxy -> ZNC -> satisfaction! #IRC using hideously old and primitive and dumb client to talk to modern (and not-so-modern) IRC servers. ezIRC/2 on #OS2 2.11 (on a 386), #irssi on #OpenBSD (PPro) and #ZNC on my #FreeBSD (epyc). #retrocomputing for the win!
(DIR) Post #Ao9bujlW6VsYGGVs6i by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2024-11-17T01:16:20.233802Z
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@muzej Are you sure you know what you're asking? It's 2024, and you're asking a late-40s guy what his desktop looked like in the 90's? Well, here you go.. CW for a reason. :D#os2 #retrocomputing #puberty #teenagers #nsfw (I never thought I'd get to use that hashtag...)
(DIR) Post #AocbRJ3fGuSiQEYqVU by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2024-12-02T01:12:10.261583Z
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Just found this sealed #floppy disk in my copy of "ZEN of Code Optimization" from ... 1994! And it even covers Pentium programming!A whopping 300 kilobytes of #assembly, #C and #C++ code. How much of this would still be useful today? Should I (re-)read the book?Will be uploading to archive.org..I'll post the link once it's up there. #retrocomputing
(DIR) Post #AsA6yllQC0AwLfKIam by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-03-17T08:42:19.178498Z
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@tomjennings I'm using DESQViee on a 286 to multitask http, ftp and irc servers on http://floppy.museum .. it's awesome.
(DIR) Post #AsJIb6DUxtRCvMnbwe by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-03-22T09:29:53.745923Z
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@ploum It runs on ridiculously low-end hardware, too. One of my #snac2 instances runs on a 486. :D
(DIR) Post #AvOqGJPNif2g7RAUpk by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-06-22T10:34:32.085877Z
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@filippo No, absolutely no. The library (and by extension its maintainer) did not take down those sites. We should never use or accept language that even indirectly suggests this.*Whoever took the library and used it without sufficient testing "took down" the sites. It only matters that the bug is old or obvious in that it *directly points out* how the company using the library failed to take the necessary precautions.*It's the same kind of language that places blame on victims: "look at what you made me do"; other examples would need a cw..
(DIR) Post #AvTHhUQUyVUCsSXLqS by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-06-24T23:55:11.977703Z
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@Lydie Rose-tinted glasses allow you to forget the joys of memory management, drivers, printers (from which nightmares still plague me today), "Abort, Retry, Fail?"*, config.sys boot menus (90's), different boot floppies for different software (80's), code pages and keyboard layouts and software assuming everyone has a ] key or that doesn't understand what AltGr is for (still a problem)......said one of the thousands of people desperately trying to recreate those nightmares in their spare time. ;)All that said, I totally agree.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abort,_Retry,_Fail%3F
(DIR) Post #Ax0DE43Xx8EOb0zK9A by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-08-09T17:32:55.898852Z
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@lowqualityfacts Are these displays controllable by non-proprietary tools, like a REST API or something? Or will they be useless as soon as they go bust and their app disappears, certs expire, or whatnot?
(DIR) Post #AybOhFwg70mresPYdk by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-09-24T19:23:24.188897Z
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The feeling when some of the Grand Masters and Architects of #UNIX mocks me for being crazy to run modern #NetBSD on decidedly-not-modern hardware while also pointing out how *incredibly* powerful this 386sx/486-class hardware is and what an absurdly huge amount of memory 16MB is compared to what *they* had while, you know, developing UNIX..#EuroBSDCon #RunBSD #Retrocomputing #Fanboi #StarStruck
(DIR) Post #AzmV6Sv9t0HKXFKhm4 by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-10-31T21:17:15.448622Z
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@stefano I've got 128mb and xorg on my 486 with NetBSD 10. It's not fast, but it's also not unusable. Can run Dillo but it's buggy and leaks memory so.. sticking with links/lynx ;)
(DIR) Post #B0tGQg54eDkAUVzzY8 by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-12-04T01:14:04.016617Z
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@thedaemon The FreeBSD-* packages make up FreeBSD. Unless you want to assemble a subset of it (for example for a jail, or a custom installation, or a VM or cloud image) you should never have to care or worry about it. If you install from official media everything is there, and when you upgrade FreeBSD-* everything is upgraded. So if you ever have to do anything to FreeBSD-vi specifically it's (now) possible whereas in the past it was kinda hard - but most users won't and you'll generally know if you do. Sorry if I'm stating obvious stuff. I'm still getting used to all this myself, there's a lot to learn - and I've been pushing hard for pkgbase for some years now :)
(DIR) Post #B1S0LjYPmBOfY7hCBE by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-12-20T19:54:47.362155Z
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Never mind. Can't read "web client". @grunfink @junior #Pipilo works well and the developer is responsive.
(DIR) Post #B1hpswNx6IGlvznCG8 by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2025-12-28T04:25:34.214714Z
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So I got myself a couple of IBM PS/2 model P70 386[1] luggable computers. I see they're quite the fad in some corners of te Retroverse, so I thought I'd pull my usual shenanigans and install OS/2 on one. I went with version 2.11 which is probably the most lightweight version, while also being really beautiful. I'll document my travails in this thread..Stay tuned, more to come!Image: My P70 duing the initial attempts at booting the OS/2 2.11 installation floppies.[1] https://www.ardent-tool.com/8573/P70_Project.html#Retrocomputing #Installfest #Retrohardware #IBM #OS2
(DIR) Post #B3DfzgpihfXX9Q0P5c by ltning@pleroma.anduin.net
2026-02-11T13:43:00.540733Z
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@kaneel Get off the internet you assh*le. @Philsan Thanks for reporting on this. It's a sad but unavoidable development. As long as AI content is placed in separate compos I can simply ignore it, so that would be my preferred solution. :D