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I also want them to not take up GBs of RAM for only having a few windows open. I want something not based on Electron. I want something native instead of written in Javascript.

I think this is something like that, https://github.com/webhdx/PicoBoot . RP2040 for the Gamecube. Mostly they are using it for booting homebrew but I don't see why you couldn't ed…

ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/

The title for this post seems very incorrect. How can you have "lost" something you never had? He chose to not invest in Microsoft and live his life how he wanted and that somehow …

The article doesn't go into why building the Macintosh or the NeXT machines in the USA failed. I can see the problems of bringing manufacturing back to the USA but why did it fail …

I still often use a TI-89 I bought in 1999. I also bought my daughter a used TI-86 and she uses it daily. Both are way nicer to use than the calculators on our phones.

I was diagnosed with Delayed sleep phase disorder and have the same issue where sleep aids only work a few days at a time before stopping with diminishing returns everyday. Nothing…

I worked a computer store back in the mid 2000s. We got an iMac in that had a busted CRT and the owner just wanted the data moved to a new machine and then gave us the old one to g…

I use an Apple USB full-size keyboard from 2008. It is actually my favorite keyboard ever. After years of mostly using laptop keyboards I don't like full height keys anymore.

That is very annoying to watch. What is it trying accomplish?

We use 100 Gb EDR Infiniband to each host in our HPC clusters and with a combination of file system access, message passing, and general network traffic we actually use that bandwi…

There is also LIKO-12 which is open source and has changeable "BIOS" and "OS." https://github.com/RamiLego4Game/LIKO-12

-2, 3, 6, 10, 14, 16, 19

This same thing happened to my wife yesterday. I didn't have any idea how that happened.

We pay for RHEL subscriptions but do both. We have large NAS systems but some machines, like our NFS servers, also have large internal RAID setups. We have bumped into EXT3 max fil…

It is amazing how many trees have grown back.

Here is a decent article written by Andy Hertzfeld. He was one of the original people working on the Macintosh. The story explains they there were in fact Twiggy drive Macintosh ma…

The glasses are 3D LCD shutter glasses. They sync the frame rate of the shutter to the video output using to the box on top of the monitor. This is a old school version of what the…

One of our supercomputing clusters does run with a shared / and a separate /var that is local to the machine. /var is local to the disk because the nodes are stateless but we would…

Same thing happened to me a few years ago with Solaris and Irix. I used to use bash but the best shell available at work was tcsh. Now I have so much invested in tcsh that it is di…

We recently just had a baby and your words are much more important than many people think. The number one hardest thing has been keeping time for our relationship. The baby get all…

I just signed up for the beta and it told me that I can use it on February 31st if I sign up two friends. I think someone should take a look at how the dates are being calculated.

There is a picture of a woman wearing the watch on the their blog. Looks a little big but not bad.

I don't think this is really a failure.