Posts by min1123@allthingstech.social
(DIR) Post #AapIzBfZLqcRsauJTk by min1123@allthingstech.social
2023-10-16T11:40:40Z
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@BrodieOnLinux My biggest Linux gripe is that we never got API revisions for drivers, and the drivers are stuck in the kernel tree because of it.When Linux was new-ish, Slackware had essentially IDE (PATA) or SCSI kernels, tossed on one bootable floppy disk, while the rootfs resided on another. That would have been a great time to make a 0.1 driver API and split out the source tree so the drivers lived separately, and a kernel supported driver API revisions. Hindsight, 20/20
(DIR) Post #AckWm9OoRqDekfnP3Q by min1123@allthingstech.social
2023-12-13T00:06:02Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Beautiful
(DIR) Post #AdG8SpEBuFVHJA1E3M by min1123@allthingstech.social
2023-12-28T04:28:11Z
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@BrodieOnLinux Importantly assembly is architecture specific, and Linux supports many ISAs. Seperately, portions of the kernel, including the basic start from the bootloader, and places where an assembly optimization will make a difference on a platform are coded in assembly.
(DIR) Post #AjF09ZZHGEmO97DB3o by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-06-24T04:06:48Z
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@foone Hey, so, I did get one of these, but it has been a massive nuisance ever since. After about 20 minutes of messing with DOOM and stuff the screen corrupted, and then it refused to use the screen (blue), and refused to use it hard reboots except sporadically when it seemed to have wiped its CMOS. Seems you had a better experience, if you found any, can you point me at some BIOS setup resources or whatever docs you found so I can get back to trying to FreeDOS and TCC on it? (Maybe NetBSD 4)
(DIR) Post #Ak6hoKmrSFPWg2l0jo by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-07-20T01:57:46Z
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@foone That has to be the fugliest spaghetti code ever. With massive circular dependencies. I could use a massive working RAM boost myself though.
(DIR) Post #AkZd6eQWJBpOc93mbI by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-08-03T00:51:24Z
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@foone you could use MSB and LSB the way file magic does for ELF files
(DIR) Post #AkfyWMzwzg2w4kUrkO by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-08-06T02:20:00Z
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@foone recommendations, elinks seems to be somewhat more up-to-date than lynx, secondarily run stuff through frogfind.com (especially recipes)
(DIR) Post #AkmHXUxFxe9x7TFQWW by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-08-09T03:20:38Z
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@foone you may want to look into the Transmeta Crusoe line of chips
(DIR) Post #AleIyUdvot3qSgTsMS by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-09-04T04:51:27Z
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@foone man, I thought my introduction was rough. TI99/4A when I was 7, all mine, in my room, with a black and white TV. The problem? All carts and no manuals. Then my parents got me “a manual”. It was a workbook for a college comp-sci course on some other flavor of basic, and they had errors in them so that the students could find and correct them. Not knowing the language, well I didn’t figure it out.Turns out I was super lucky.
(DIR) Post #AleJ4hbQY6omOPGoPQ by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-09-04T04:52:30Z
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@foone maybe keep it low spec software wise with DietPi?
(DIR) Post #Am6qFyZgWe9b83Jgrg by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-09-17T23:16:27Z
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@foone I believe somewhere along the way the GIF became aspirational as an art form of looping video. Under this newer definition, any video format seems to qualify.Since I know GIF as a file format with 8-bit palletized color, that may be animated, normally no faster than 15FPS to save file size, with no audio, and delicious hacky techniques like only partial updates and transparency, I find the newer definition removes the charm of the limitations of the format.
(DIR) Post #AmYtCJXGyz1t03HJuy by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-10-01T12:02:15Z
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@BrodieOnLinux maybe I’m missing the point of the post, but I’m assuming this is another poor person who is being bitten by a dev setting their ‘#!’ line to something with python instead of something with python3. In many distros, python will always mean python2, and python3 is used to represent all python 3.0 and onward (so far). Some distros make python a symlink to whatever their system version of python3 is, and it seems the dev expects that behavior.
(DIR) Post #AnFY6v9qoGfhMOBjhw by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-10-22T01:58:06Z
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@foone don’t forget all the Freescale/NXP embedded devices. Tons of SCADA devices/early IoT/controllers all run Book-E PPC embedded stuff. I’m not terrifically happy that NXP seems more interested in their ARM portfolio at the expense of the POWER QUICC and other early embedded SoCs.
(DIR) Post #AnHe4uAyTfB1mE3W88 by min1123@allthingstech.social
2024-10-23T02:14:21Z
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@foone Parts list for the glue and software?https://www.adafruit.com/product/6037https://www.adafruit.com/product/5679https://www.adafruit.com/product/1381https://www.adafruit.com/product/4884