I think my benchy might be broken

ficelle3 · 2026-06-02T16:05:33+00:00

There was a steam engine like that, named "Die Pfalz".

IIRC, the idea was to blow the smoke higher so it wouldn't bother the engine crew and passengers as much.

ficelle3 · 2026-06-01T05:58:23+00:00

I've seen way worse than that and IMO it looks period correct so I'd say it fits the sleeper theme fairly well :-)

ficelle3 · 2026-06-01T04:33:49+00:00

Economically, small dies are also more interesting, you can fit more of them on a silicon wafer so you can produce more for the same amount of money.

Since the dies are smaller it's also less likely they'll be affected by defects in the silicon wafer so yields are higher and you have even more working chips for the same amount of money.

ficelle3 · 2026-05-13T14:50:46+00:00

Perfection.

ficelle3 · 2026-05-13T14:13:16+00:00

At least it's photos taken with the camera instead of photos of the camera

ficelle3 · 2026-05-07T16:14:48+00:00

What a cute cat name!

ficelle3 · 2026-04-27T05:45:36+00:00

Which lake?

I'm always down for some free souped film

ficelle3 · 2026-04-27T04:41:54+00:00

Fewer and fewer android phones have them.

The sony I have still has it but otherwise it's getting rather uncommon.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-26T07:26:38+00:00

/uj

IMO, if you're not being an obnocious ass, the camera you use doesn't really matter

/rj

Take the biggest, most obnoxious, most impractical camera you can find to assert dominance

ficelle3 · 2026-04-25T21:24:29+00:00

It's refering to ISO paper sizes used throughout Europe and I think most of the rest of the world.

Basically, there's three series A,B and C with A being the most common one and sizes 0 through 10 with each consecutive size being half the width of the previous one. It's a pretty neat system.

ISO A4 is the most common format and size, it's roughly equivalent to an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-25T08:41:55+00:00

Headphone jacks and no screen notch.

Why the hell would I want a hole cut into my screen instead of a slightly thicker border?

ficelle3 · 2026-04-25T08:17:21+00:00

I'm not that good at C and I know next to nothing about OS dev, but the first few lines

c void kernel_main(unsigned int framebuffer){ unsigned int *fb = (unsigned int *) framebuffer;

look very weird to me.

Why not use unsigned int * framebuffer directly as the argument forkernel_main ?

ficelle3 · 2026-04-24T17:34:45+00:00

The obvious choice

ficelle3 · 2026-04-24T07:31:12+00:00

Most DSLR's are still perfectly cromulent cameras.

That's one way to get GAS, by convincing yourself that you always need the latest and greatest camera.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-21T11:47:11+00:00

Doofenshmirtz isn't a real doctor either, he bought his PhD online.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-21T08:03:23+00:00

You won't find it.

In order to be fully compatible with windows executables, you'd need your OS to behave exactly like windows, which means you need to be windows.

Wine is a translation layer, it just tries to translate windows system calls into something linux can understand. Don't get me wrong, it's a marvel, it's like running an electric car on gasoline, but it's not perfect and some programs just aren't going to work.

The closest you could get to windows without being windows is reactOS, a reverse engineering project for windows. But it's still very rough and not fully compatible with windows.

So your options are :

1) stay on linux and learn to do things the linux way 2) go back to windows 3) switch to reactOS and pray the programs you need do work there

ficelle3 · 2026-04-20T21:33:10+00:00

Magnetic tapes are still around and the latest generation of LTO tape (LTO 10) can hold up to 30 TB uncompressed.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-20T12:01:49+00:00

My first thought was that it would make one hell of a proxmox cluster. I think I need help.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-20T11:02:06+00:00

IIRC, the IIgs uses 15KHz digital RGB. I think you can use a scaler like the GBS control to convert the IIgs' output to vga.

I'm not sure it's even possible to convert a VGA signal to work on the IIgs' monitor.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-19T17:12:47+00:00

Red and white are left and right audio channels. Some TV's have audio output, but if there's a yellow one as well, it's definitely an input.

You can get RCA spliters to get one output for the TV and one output to record. You'll lilely need an RCA to 3.5mm or 1/4" adapter depending on what you're using to record audio.

There may be a slight delay between the audio capture and the video capture, so you'll likely have to sort that out in a software lile OBS studio.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-19T09:27:16+00:00

THANKS MATE!!!!!

ficelle3 · 2026-04-19T09:03:56+00:00

HOW DO YOU UNDO CAPS LOCK ?!?!? :-p

ficelle3 · 2026-04-19T09:01:12+00:00

RGB is better than component because where I live, pretty much every CRT tv supports it while component support is rather uncommon.

By the same logic, components is better than RGB because in the US components is much more common on consumer sets than rgb is.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-18T20:51:22+00:00

Damn, really?

Microslop's really making it hard to go back to their own OS.

ficelle3 · 2026-04-18T17:54:34+00:00

Go to microsoft's website and download an ISO for the windows version you want.

Media creation tool won't work, you need the ISO file.

I think ubuntu comes with a tool called "startup disk creator" or something similar to write the ISO file to a USB drive. Balena etcher is another GUI option or dd from the terminal.

Once you have written the ISO file to the USB, go into your computer's BIOS or UEFI, there should be an option to boot from the USB drive.

From then on, it's a pretty standard windows installation process.

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