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there's something about "computers built by companies who wanted to use up their inventory of VCR chassis" that really appeals to me

I set up a page listing some Excess Stuff that I'd like to sell...
12bit.club/shop/
Currently I've got a bunch of newish recentish emulation consoles and famiclones up there. It's all pretty cheap! Check it out if you're interested in that kind of thing!

saw something cool on another account and wanted to boost here but that's how i found out someone i never talked to has me blocked so whatever

@mavica_again Remember ho well PowerStrip worked to overclock your GPU and add custom resolutions/refresh rates? I still use it on my Windows 98 machine. Well, as it turns out, nowadays on Wayland to add custom resolutions/refresh rates you have to dump your monitor's EDID, modify it with some dude's tool, then add it as a firmware blob to be loaded by the kernel on boot. But you also have to be sure to include it in your initramfs so that it _can_ be loaded on boot. Kill me.

breaking kayfabe for a moment OSes are tools and you use what works for you

and Linux desktop environments never worked for anybody lol

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it's funny to watch linux struggle in 2025 with issues windows solved in 95

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i just think the same people with a lust for the command line and a disdain for the newfangled mouse and graphics adapter should not be allowed to push their half-baked desktop environments upon others

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i'm not anti Linux. i love Linux. even some of my servers are Linux

i'm convinced people who don't have daily issues caused by using Linux are only ever using the web browser and nothing else

the main two problems in computing are off by one errors and dns. unless you use linux in which case you get a third problem no other operating system has invented yet which is denying you file permissions even if all chown and chmods are perfectly correct just to piss you off

steve jobs' open letter on flash is to computers what "reagan elected president" is as a temporal data point in socioeconomical graphs

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sometime after steve jobs killed flash computing as a whole lost all its whimsy

when is the last time you've seen a funny screensaver

it's a little funny to me how certain people will with the same breath demonize windows because "the NT kernel is evil" and also say that ARM and RISC-V will never be serious competitors to x86

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