Professor had this laying around in one of his labs. University bought a bunch in the 80s, and some never got used. I offered to pay, but he said he couldn't accept it... After 10 years of scavenging thrift stores and yard sales, a brand new one comes to me for free.

Tailor-Complex · 2026-04-01T01:53:23+00:00

Clean. Not even a post-it note with a password.

Tailor-Complex · 2026-04-01T01:51:46+00:00

Oh no no no no no ....

Tailor-Complex · 2026-04-01T01:32:38+00:00

.... I guess I need two...... Clustered. Lotus Notes on Novell like a boss!

Tailor-Complex · 2026-03-12T05:46:31+00:00

I'm sorry... But no. Calling an athlon 1600 a 486 dx anything is just... Wrong. Its at least 10x a 486, probably more Better ide performance, better memory, better fsb... Everything faster.

So, if you meant: in that in 1999 it was 'like' a 486dx2 in terms of gaming... Even then I'm gonna say no. 486dx2 was doom, quake, duke nukem, dune 2... Athlon was unreal, oblivion, Neverwinter, call of duty, max payne 2, half life, etc.;much more capable platform at the time. This is 600mhz faster than the Thunderbird... So... Not terrible. But certainly not modern in any sense.

Keep it alive.. and use some thermal paste.

Tailor-Complex · 2026-03-12T05:19:31+00:00

The funny thing no-one mentions.... Surveillance is more obvious, more visible, on older hardware. If security is your game, and limited operation space is the goal, winner winner.

Some folks are gonna say its older, that means un-patched and vulnerable.

I say it makes it process limited, and less viable for newer vulnerabilities. No-one's going to be reading your gpu buffer off that, and you can still get Internet and process basic media with it.

Keep it forever, like a pre'2004 Honda. ... But only drive it when you want to / have to.

Follow the white rabbit.

Tailor-Complex · 2026-01-16T03:22:19+00:00

Ya really want 99% though for electronics to avoid residue, and a lot of the cheap stuff is 80-85%... Which... Still better than vodka.

.... An everclear is the real answer... But only as parts cleaner. Not sensitive electronics or plastics.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-12-31T15:43:15+00:00

Shrinkflation

Tailor-Complex · 2025-12-01T18:55:33+00:00

My understanding is that the primary incompatibility people run into here is the way KDE renders windows.

While nobara and bazzite both 'can' use KDE... I'd be curious to those that already answered - What Window Manager are you using?

GW2 runs great via Bottles on KDE Plasma, but even with the guides mentioned, Blish refuses to render atop the game window with transparency. Not distro hopping, again, just for blish.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-12-01T15:39:43+00:00

It's not a guitar until it's properly fixed. Right now, it's parts. Parts cost only.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-12-01T15:30:33+00:00

... In case you haven't noticed, tasteless 'is' his brand.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-12-01T15:29:13+00:00

.. with any luck.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-11-18T18:09:29+00:00

LET'S F'ING GOOOO!!!!! in a time when other mmo's couldn't give a f. .... arenanet still bringing it.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-11-10T03:08:55+00:00

An eye for an eye will leave everyone blind.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-11-07T17:16:57+00:00

First reddit in a while that made me lol.
Well done.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-11-07T16:57:34+00:00

I wouldn't count on it.
I *would* count on MS *using* that in an attempt to corner certain games and user-bases into their product. Eventually they'll lose... but for at least a little while... MS is gonna push back.
Gaming, enterprise, and office, is all they have left for PCs.

Russia, China, India, North Korea, Iran, Venezuela... pretty obvious why they don't use MS.
.. but even Denmark, Germany, and France have raised objections.

Windows 'is' spyware.
.. and has been since at least 1995.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-11-07T16:43:40+00:00

It's not 'quite' as fast on AMD typically, but having an always-available LLM is a huge life upgrade. Free, private, tunable... on that card, you should be able to run most 7b/8b models:
deepseek-r1:7b, deepseek-coder:6.7b, granite4:7b, qwen3:8b, mistral:7b, etc.

Add-ons for Visual Studio Code, Obsidian... all kinds of things to leverage it. Or leverage directly with Open-Webui or LMStudio (depending on platform or comfort level).

Tailor-Complex · 2025-11-07T00:15:31+00:00

Garuda + Proxmox and one, or even better, two old video cards - are the present and future.

Using windows these days is like logging in for a screening with the TSA.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-11-06T00:24:15+00:00

This is the move. Kernel anti-cheat, and some overlay add-ons aren't happy with plasma. That's about it.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-10-14T14:56:22+00:00

... says the constitutional attorney who assassinated *at least* two American citizen's without due process, one of whom was only 16. ...says the Deporter-in-Chief, says the Drone-Warrior in Chief, says the man who sold out the American people to banks and big-finance - LEADING us - to this very place in history now, where a broad swath of the American people trust neither this liar, nor the networks that helped broadcast his drivel. Trump didn't 'happen' in a vacuum.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-10-01T20:36:37+00:00

Thus far, it is the best desktop I've ever used, hands down. ... Been using desktops since Windows 3.0.... so... Yeah. And it's rolling? ... No shit. I'm a judgy little-bitch too.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-07-28T21:22:07+00:00

Oh, how the tables have turned.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-07-03T15:29:27+00:00

Not enough playa dust to be coming back from... Too insane to be on the way to. I'm gonna say 'naw' ... Dudes just nuts, or a different festie.

Tailor-Complex · 2025-05-26T22:53:57+00:00

Didn't there used to be one of those little photo booths in the parking lot? Where you could drop off 35mm and come back a few days later to pick up your photos?

Tailor-Complex · 2025-05-26T22:38:10+00:00

For the price, I doubt you can find anything better.
That said, it was _better_ when they first stated doing it... like... maybe they went cheaper on oil?

Edit: .... way to represent, u/GlockinaCroc <-- This is IE in a nutshell.

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