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I find hosted/hybrid machines particularly fascinating, so I have a 6100/66 DOS with a Houdini II Nubus card and a Education-market LC with the Gemini-based Apple IIe PDS card that…

I see news about those, mostly from friends doing recreational things with FPGAs. I guess also relevant since they've managed to crowdfund three (substantially upgraded from genera…

I have a copy from the kickstarter, it's the best and most expensive ($175) thing I've ever gone in on crowdfunding for. Absolutely beautiful books. Great photography, they even wo…

I have a long fascination with weird input devices, owing partly to a predisposition to fine joint problems, and Chorders are always both super interesting in theory and kind of we…

I've been using Warewulf (&co.) for provisioning bare-metal clusters for decades (back into the Perceus days between Warewulf 1 and 2), it's a solid easy-to-comprehend tool that do…

I'm local, I know a ton of former Lexmark people, because they've already been all-but dead in Lexington for some time. They mostly only did R&D here for decades, and that group ha…

It certainly is a bit of a novelty, but there are a few Theremin-featuring pieces that I find pleasing, a classic example is the Theremin and piano arrangement of Saint-Saens' The …

I love the Computer-Hosted-In-A-Computer products (for absolutely no good reason), I have both one of the education market Mac LCs with a IIe-on-a-chip in the PDS slot ( https://en…

That Unix Surrealism ( https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/unix_surrealism?dataType=Post&sort=T... ) art project(?) is absolutely delightful in general.

It is very likely the comment I'm replying to is not being obnoxious, but making a very deep cut reference to Orbital's song "Planet of the Shapes" from orbital2 that contains samp…

Short answer: The legal situation in the early 90s made BSD unattractive right at the time where cheap microcomputers sufficient to host Unix-likes were proliferating, which allowe…

A cheap AUE Chromebook flashed with UEFI makes a good (albeit rather storage-starved) Linux beater - but you'll have trouble with Haiku or any of the BSDs because the hardware is a…

I haven't gone as far as a straight razor, but I've just in the last few weeks switched to a DE razor coming from years of using cartridge razors with too many too closely spaced b…

I generally hate dealing with bluetooth headphones (extra non-replaceable batteries to die then die! Extra drain on your phone battery! Run a unique ID tracking beacon all the time…

This will be my 12th SC, every year except the virtual one (or was it two? I've genuinely lost track) since 2009. It's a singular experience. Enormous. Part trade show, part confer…

Yup. The research group I work with builds a lot of custom camera parts (mostly 3D printed) for different projects, and we keep a bottle of Black 3.0 around to coat internal surfac…

Last I looked Microchip's Libero FPGA/FPGASoC development tools were paid, either on an expensive one-time fee for a specific version, or an expensive-compared-to-this-board annual…

I suspect a lot of that now is because of niche capture as a winning academic career strategy. If you're working in a specialist area, any kind of blind review is bogus because the…

University of Kentucky too, first day of classes, no one can get into anything they aren't already logged in to with a valid cookie. I spent 20 minutes trying to figure out what ne…

Many (most?) state schools don't do significantly competitive admissions, and many have state mandates in the vein of "Anyone who graduated in the top half of their in-state high s…

I don't see in the article or thread, anyone else remember when in ~2012 PGI (Portland Group, who at the time were a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics), a long time builder of high-…

Right? Planet's other offerings are handhelds in unobtainable form factors where I'd expect to pay a massive premium because designing and manufacturing that kind of portable devic…

It took me several minutes of clicking to determine that it's an init/process lifetime management/IPC thing for Linux, that uses the "Syndicated Actor Model" for dependencies and I…

I've been toutchtyping from late elementary school, and do it "too much" especially with a genetic predisposition for fine joint problems, so I'm always trying different input devi…

I've been saying RHEL is only relevant because it's an agreed-upon standard with an adequately slow rate of change. Entities want to be able to easily use code and documentation fr…