anyone here know how to use "linux"

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@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@icosahedron.website]

@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

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@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

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@halcy hehe I used to have a pair of ram sticks hanging from the rear mirror like a pair of fuzzy dice

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@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

[ruojake@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva says here it's a Pentium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfdale_(microprocessor)#Wolfdale-3M

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ruojake I just found that as well XD

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

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.

[ruojake@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva too great for a Celeron, too flawed to join the Cores 2 Duo, forever cursed

[kkarhan@infosec.space]

@aeva Currently the "dogshit wall" is #i486SX because #Linux dropped support for #i386 with Versions 3.4.99 & 3.6.9 respectably, 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.

[ki@chaos.social]

@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

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@ki ah that fixed it, thanks!

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva 8086? :3

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

i'm trying and failing to find a screenshot of the part of chrono trigger where Lucca says to Marle "Machines aren't capable of evil... humans make them that way", but it turns out there's a lot of fan art of that scene, which is nice.

anyways, computers aren't slow... it's programmers that make them that way

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel so, no, but I have been pondering on and off whether or not it might be worth it to try to port mollytime to dreamcast

[janet_catcus@hachyderm.io]

@kkarhan @aeva debian pulled their support in 13

(oh and freebsd did too)

[shinmera@mastodon.tymoon.eu]

@aeva Sometimes the lack of programmers make them slow.

As in: I don't have the time to optimise because I already have to do all the work in the first place

[pupxel@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva DOS? :3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WfiRRvQXo

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@pupxel probably not XD