That’s great, I didn’t even know that was a service you could get. I remember being really disappointed when I realized that a SIMM would not actually fit in one of my 386s ISA slots 😅

It was such a cool time for CPUs. Going up a generation was like getting a supercomputer. And Intel had those cartridge CPUs…

Honestly it still feels like home. Because I was kind of a moron and figured it would mean less to figure out, I registered darkstar.org (the default domain Slackware came set up with).

I few years later I actually emailed Patrick Volkerding about something and he mentioned it… I felt this strange mix of pride and shame ;-)

Welcome to Lemmy stranger.

Slackware back in the early 90s on a Compaq 386/SX20 💾

Watching something compiling is kinda like the reward for getting it to compile in the first place…

They were great, probably put most of their profits into running a very fast FTP site.

As long as you’re doing it in a VM might as well try the MacOS version. IIRC the OS screen scaling and apples requirements that everything have vector or MIB mapped icons makes for a much nicer experience.

I don’t know if it works on a VM… just fondly remember using the apps on my MacBook 😅

That’s terrible! They helped me fix my system when I decided I was fancy enough to try building a new version of gcc and go off-script a bit.

IIRC I deleted library.so rather that overwriting it. If I hadn’t been running IRC on another terminal already I would have been done for.

PRESS ALT+F4 for ops! 😂

OMG… the showmanship…

Someone-being-bratty-on-IRC: […]
Me: We’re going to take away your internet access if you don’t behave. 
Bratty: Fuck you! You can’t do tha
5 minutes later…
Bratty: How did you do that??? 

The days before Walnut Creak CD-ROM :-) Waiting for FIDO.NET to be synced at midnight… I think that’s what it was called… shit’s getting hazy.

I desperately wanted one of those first BeBoxes or whatever they were called. And one of those little SGI toasters… I even tried to compile SGI’s 3D file manager (demo) from Jurassic Park.

Herp derp… where can I download an OpenGL from… it keeps saying I can’t build it without one 🤤

For that, I’ll spin up a copy…

Holly crap I got lazy. Perfect ;-)

OMG… BOFH! I need to go find those stories now :-)

Spent a week getting the audio driver to work so I could finally figure out how to properly pronounce “Linux…” and I still couldn’t.

Spent like $50 on floppy disks and like 2 days labeling them by hand before printing out the 20 pages of instructions, formatting my hard drive and installing Slackware. Realized I didn’t actually know any unix commands. Paged a friend.

I mean… you know they sold out to Aussie-Adobe like 4 years ago right?

They are currently strip-mining the code so they can learn how to write an application that isn’t an instagram filter tacked onto MS paint… I just made that last part up, hopefully they do something good… but I assume they acquired Serif for the sake of IP protection and not because they were hoping to develop it further. I haven’t seen anything innovative happen for the last few years at least.

It’s easier to ingest than the way I speak ;-)

Just griping a bit about what’s probably more of a design/branding change than anything.

I think fakespot is promising tech that we desperately need more of.

Can’t hurt to have it in their hands, hope to see more server resources ;-)

Sorry… busy day and I’m going to need a real computer for this 😅

RE Free… nothing really, just being bitter. I’m not a huge fan of a lot of the little tie-ins like Pocket, but I respect the hustle… if not the business plan.

The Amazon review thing they bought is Fakespot™, check it out if you shop on Amazon. Here the Ai nonsense is just some summaries of the reviews it digested… not inherently bad, but the whole experience is painfully slow. Still. Well worth checking out if you haven’t.

Shady dude gets a 📌 for now. Sorry. Time.

If you check out Fakespot you can’t miss it. Have yet to try the browser integration, although I have enabled it for some reason…  

You gotta love that there are benchmark for that… The company that can’t even get free, right.

I really like their Amazon reviews thing that they bought… I bet the shady dude that had all the fucking people finder sites was in charge of that cause it’s got the same kind of fucking cheesy-graphic-load-screen… basically, the only functional piece of software they had at that point cause they hadn’t touched it, and then they went an AIed it up…

Here’s a new idea, why doesn’t everybody in the fediverse post their favorite privacy enhanced Firefox rebrand:

Hopefully a few thousand of them were the ones responsible for making the website dog shit 😅