anyone here know how to use "linux"
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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
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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.
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
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@aeva 8086? :3
@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
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@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. -
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 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
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@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
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@pupxel probably not XD
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@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
@shinmera look as long as your not dumping everything inside react/electron you're probably on the good side of the curve
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semi-related, I've decided that my collection of mostly functioning old computers that I've been holding on to just in case is now to be hereby known as my "Beowulf Clutter"
@aeva ugh, this is so good. I am also guilty of this. Those SGI machines are gonna be part of something bigger one day, I say again for the 20th year in a row
Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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@rapitadaglialieni @Yaku temo che siano diventate un pelo un prodotto di nicchia
così, vagamente :D
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@mczachurski thanks a lot!
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Così Trump ha trasformato l’Ice in una nuova Gestapo
https://www.globalist.it/world/2026/01/12/cosi-trump-ha-trasformato-lice-in-una-nuova-gestapo/
> L’Ice sotto Trump agisce violento e arbitrario, provocando proteste a Minneapolis. Critiche denunciano abusi su cittadini e migranti, minacciando lo stato di diritto e l’Habeas Corpus.
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Noi spezzeremo le reni alla…
Ah, no.L'UE accelera sull'open source. Consultazione pubblica per rafforzare la sovranità digitale europea - Zeus News
https://www.zeusnews.it/n.php?c=31698
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Remember "the Internet interprets censorship as damage, and routes around it?"
That was cute.
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«Il National Cancer Institute ha perso la sua integrità scientifica. Quindi ce ne siamo andati»
Nel corso dell'anno, mentre assistevamo alle politiche sconsiderate dell'amministrazione Trump, abbiamo cercato di proteggere la scienza che avevamo sempre sostenuto. Abbiamo parlato quando possibile e a giugno ci siamo uniti a centinaia di colleghi per firmare la Dichiarazione di Bethesda, una lettera aperta al direttore del NIH che descriveva dettagliatamente come diverse nuove politiche stessero minando l'integrità scientifica e la missione dell'istituto.
Ma non possiamo più prestare la nostra credibilità a un'organizzazione che ha perso la sua integrità.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/10/nih-resign-protest-four-leaders-cite-interference-censorship/
PS: segui l'account @scienza per essere aggiornato sulle ultime novità (e menzionalo in un nuovo messaggio per far ricondividere i tuoi post)
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Haxe language creator and
@shirogames.com
founder Nicolas Cannasse just released Pico GPU.It's a virtual GPU and could become the perfect introduction environment for shader development.
https://gamefromscratch.com/pico-gpu-virtual-gpu-for-learning-shaders/
