It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor.
Uncategorized
35
Posts
33
Posters
0
Views
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
I suddenly feel all warm and sentimental
-
@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals
@colingourlay Same! Very zen-like, even with the varied experience between Win 9x and WinNT.
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Or running memmaker.
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer People with btrfs still balance their filesystem every now and then and ZFS got an zfs-rewrite command in 2.4 which can be used to defrag the filesystem^^
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer I can confirm. There is a positive correlation between the time I spent degaussing a monitor and the amount of time I spent playing games.
Not sure whether or not correlation is the same as causation, but hey it's worth a shot...
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Half-a-joke, nowadays, many game "devz" consider SSD as RAM 🤦 We are doomed.
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer They can still enjoy sitting down until shaders compile, I guess? -
@grumpygamer People with btrfs still balance their filesystem every now and then and ZFS got an zfs-rewrite command in 2.4 which can be used to defrag the filesystem^^
@vamp898 @grumpygamer we need a funny TUI to show us it's really defragging though (I did btrfs defrag literally yesterday)
-
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer kids these days never had to clean the ball in a mouse and it shows 😔
-
@grumpygamer Better games ... probably also related to the real hackers of 80s and 90s able to squeeze the limit of x86 CPUs in "demo competitions" where the main program was not allowed to exceed 64KiB. And they squeezed that lemon to amazing heights!
Today's generation just wines about how expensive it has become to buy more RAM.
Even though I've been doing programming professionally for for quite some time, I'm not even worthy looking at these older hacker's boots.
@dazo @grumpygamer Funnily enough, I remember reading a letter to a Your Computer (the British one) in Februray 1985, lamenting that these new 64 KB monster machines made for sloppy programming and had taken all the fun out of computers. 😁
-
@grumpygamer Thought you were talking about Doom for a second...
@ZoidbergForPresident @grumpygamer somebody made a doom mod where the monsters are processes and killing the monster kills the process; I bet something similar could be done for defragmenting
-
undefined oblomov@sociale.network shared this topic
Feed RSS
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
-
@Zambunny lavati i denti, sentirsi la bocca fresca può far passare la voglia di sporcarla
Se non funziona mangia il dentifricio 😅
-
Come comico indubbiamente un fuoriclasse. Come persona probabilmente meno, anche se aver creato Telethon è un bonus a suo favore (qui citavo la reunion con #DeanMartin avvenuta in quell'occasione https://mastodon.uno/@fucinafibonacci/115779836904620380). Ma anche come attore aveva il suo perché. #JerryLewis nasceva 100 anni fa. Re per una notte (1983) - TokyVideo https://www.tokyvideo.com/it/video/re-per-una-notte-1983
-
Ho una fame nervosa che sto per urlare. Credo che potrei addentare il braccio di qualcuno.
-
Benvenuto Peter, speriamo che te ne torni a casa in fretta... e magari freddo.
-
@nethack if you click the "freebsd" tag, you'll find many blog posts about how to do things with FreeBSD (and benchmarks, etc.)
-
@filobus @electricsheep @matz @simone @marcoboh @bradipo
Voglio che sappiate le motivazioni principali:
Paypal è statunitense
Paypal è di Thiel
Thiel è quello di Palantir
Thiel è amichetto di 🎺🤡
-
@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe you are encouraged to continue expanding on your thoughts. it'd be cool if you shared more tips or interesting facts about the OS as well. im ready for anything, but id like to know more from a veteran perspective such as yours.
-
@mau @aitech la domanda, per l'umano, nasce sempre da un modo di sentirsi vivere in un mondo quando i profili di mondo che incontra suscitano sorpresa, spaesamento, curiosità... Un fenomeno estraneo a una macchina che, in quanto tale, non ha né mondo né contesto.
La domanda "come mai la mela cade da un albero?" me la faccio perché ho una precomprensione pratica, tacita e vissuta di cosa significa stare vicino, sopra o sotto un albero, da solo o con altri, con delle sensazioni, dei bisogni, delle aspettative... A partire da quella domanda, se allestisco un esperimento per trovare una risposta non è l'apparato sperimentale che mi fornisce una risposta ma il mio modo di riflettere sulle eventuali invarianze che il dispositivo allestito mi restituisce.
Esiste una interessante ricerca che mostra come la rimozione delle virgolette, un tempo impiegate nella ricerca sulla IA dai primi ricercatori quando parlavano di "intelligenza" o "apprendimento" ecc..., sia stata una precisa operazione di manipolazione che con la ricerca non aveva nulla a che vedere.
Secondo me è importante, quando scriviamo su un social o generiamo testi destinati a non esperti, che ci si sforzi di non dare per scontati significati nei termini che usiamo e se possibile usare le virgolette in riferimento a termini che pertengono l'umano.
Non sarebbe male tenere sempre presente che, nonostante la fascinazione costruita dalle narrative, quando interagiamo con un calcolatore stiamo interagendo con un insieme di porte logiche gestite dall'algebra di Boole, cioè con dei meccanismi come quelli in figura.
