anyone here know how to use "linux"
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and that last point might really just be a case for getting a GPU for that machine
oh holy smokes, /proc/cpuinfo says this is a 3.2 ghz cpu. i assumed this machine was somewhere closer to 1 ghz
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oh holy smokes, /proc/cpuinfo says this is a 3.2 ghz cpu. i assumed this machine was somewhere closer to 1 ghz
@aeva even the retro vibe machines are fast now
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oh holy smokes, /proc/cpuinfo says this is a 3.2 ghz cpu. i assumed this machine was somewhere closer to 1 ghz
ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
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@aeva even the retro vibe machines are fast now
@halcy I remember back in high school twenty years ago a friend I were drooling over a video of someone overclocking a pentium 4 to something crazy like 4 or 5 ghz (with an elaborate liquid nitrogen cooling system)
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@halcy I remember back in high school twenty years ago a friend I were drooling over a video of someone overclocking a pentium 4 to something crazy like 4 or 5 ghz (with an elaborate liquid nitrogen cooling system)
@aeva now I have a laptop in front of me that turbos up to 4 ghz just as a regular thing. and it has like 16 cores that can all do that. it doesn't even really get very hot. also the instruction set is of course way better. it's a bit silly.
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ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
@aeva Pretty sure in this era they applied the Pentium or Celeron branding to the low-cost parts, and the Core 2 Duo branding to the high-cost parts
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@aeva now I have a laptop in front of me that turbos up to 4 ghz just as a regular thing. and it has like 16 cores that can all do that. it doesn't even really get very hot. also the instruction set is of course way better. it's a bit silly.
@halcy CPUs haven't been slow for a very long time and now they're crazy fast. you really have to go out of your way to get a dog shit CPU now
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@halcy CPUs haven't been slow for a very long time and now they're crazy fast. you really have to go out of your way to get a dog shit CPU now
@aeva I have a CPU on the dashboard of my car like just as a fidget toy and it's like a 2ghz dual core. I considered selling it on ebay when I took the computer it was in apart but it literally would be more in postage to do so than the thing is worth, if someone even wants it
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@halcy CPUs haven't been slow for a very long time and now they're crazy fast. you really have to go out of your way to get a dog shit CPU now
@halcy there's basically no good reason for this machine to be obsolete, except that infosec researchers are keeping the trash gyre alive with shit like this
bugs : cpu_meltdown spectre_v1 spectre_v2 spec_store_bypass l1tf mds swapgs itlb_multihit mmio_unknown
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@aeva I have a CPU on the dashboard of my car like just as a fidget toy and it's like a 2ghz dual core. I considered selling it on ebay when I took the computer it was in apart but it literally would be more in postage to do so than the thing is worth, if someone even wants it
@halcy hehe I used to have a pair of ram sticks hanging from the rear mirror like a pair of fuzzy dice
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@aeva Pretty sure in this era they applied the Pentium or Celeron branding to the low-cost parts, and the Core 2 Duo branding to the high-cost parts
@swiftcoder I just found a chart on wikipedia that confirms this: E7xxx and E8xxx would have been Core 2 Duo, higher would have been Xeon, and lower was pentium and celeron. so this would not have been sold as a core 2 duo
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ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
@aeva says here it's a Pentium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor)#Wolfdale-3M
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ah, it's an Intel Pentium E5800 "wolfdale" processor, so either I am mistaken about it being a Core 2 Duo or it is one and the branding is just confusing, but either way wikipedia dates this somewhere between 2008 and 2012. I would have purchased this either late 2011 or 2012 because I remember buying it to celebrate getting a job at Creative Commons
ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor) has a handy little chart that explains intel's branding for this processor generation. the E5800 was sold as a "pentium" and not a "core 2 duo", so this is actually a *lower end* processor than I thought 😎
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@aeva says here it's a Pentium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor)#Wolfdale-3M
@ruojake I just found that as well XD
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ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor) has a handy little chart that explains intel's branding for this processor generation. the E5800 was sold as a "pentium" and not a "core 2 duo", so this is actually a *lower end* processor than I thought 😎
I need to find a more dog shit computer to figure out where exactly the perf wall is. Maybe this means there's a riscv port in mollytime's future.
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ok https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor) has a handy little chart that explains intel's branding for this processor generation. the E5800 was sold as a "pentium" and not a "core 2 duo", so this is actually a *lower end* processor than I thought 😎
@aeva too great for a Celeron, too flawed to join the Cores 2 Duo, forever cursed
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I need to find a more dog shit computer to figure out where exactly the perf wall is. Maybe this means there's a riscv port in mollytime's future.
@aeva Currently the "dogshit wall" is #i486SX because #Linux dropped support for #i386 with Versions
3.4.99&3.6.9respectably, tho most people would say anything below #amd64 w/ #SSE2 (or #i686) is out of #mainstream support already, with #RHEL6 being EoL'd & #Debian being the last major distros offering #32bit support. -
anyone here know how to use "linux"
@aeva
```
emerge -avt gentoo-sources
eselect kernel list
eselect kernel set <n>
genkernel all
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
```it's something like this, I think
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@aeva
```
emerge -avt gentoo-sources
eselect kernel list
eselect kernel set <n>
genkernel all
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
```it's something like this, I think
@ki ah that fixed it, thanks!
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I need to find a more dog shit computer to figure out where exactly the perf wall is. Maybe this means there's a riscv port in mollytime's future.
@aeva 8086? :3