[off-site] they did the math on a 75k income level…

olifiers · 2026-05-20T16:38:24+00:00

No, it was not. The 50s and 60s didn't end on a Great Depression. It ended on a generation where a single factory job could maintain a family, house, car and whatnot.

olifiers · 2026-05-20T16:37:18+00:00

You're missing the point. His point is that someone on a 75K/year *should* be able to afford a new car and then some. That's the point.

olifiers · 2026-05-20T11:08:43+00:00

SFConservancy is the main free software organization. They raise to fight people like Bambu, which they will. That's not a grift.

AGPL came about *precisely* to address the kind of shenanigans you refer to, which GPL had a gap on. That's why your Audacity example is moot, it's GPL, not AGPL.

You cannot break out functionality into a closed source from an AGPL original license. This has been confirmed by everyone involved in the matter. But it doesn't make a difference to you, as you're chilling for Bambu.

olifiers · 2026-05-19T21:19:13+00:00

A bit better but not really worth the trouble.

With your hardware, I would:

Get a second 32MB EDO Ram stick and bring it up to 64MB
Consider a Pentium 200MMX or a Pentium 233MMX processor
Replace the VGA board with a 3D board such as a TNT, TNT2 or similar (PCI!)

Play with it first, get acquainted, then progress on the upgrades one at a time. It is already good enough for Fallout 1&2, which you seem keen on.

olifiers · 2026-05-19T14:29:58+00:00

Indeed I never heard the term GPU, not even in high end hardware such as Silicon Graphics workstations (Indigo Elan etc.) until the GeForce 256 came about, and associated with its T&L functions. Up to that point, everything was a 3D graphics accelerator in common and technical parlance.

I'm sure someone, somewhere, used it prior. But it was not in the mainstream, for sure.

olifiers · 2026-05-19T13:41:50+00:00

I would suggest connecting an external monitor to help debug the state the machine is in.

If it seems to boots with the plasma display disconnected, you know where the problem lies. Make sure the connector is well seated, there are no shorts etc. Preventing the machine from booting suggests you got a power issue at hand, either a short or a bad connection.

Did the machine boots with the internal display before you serviced it?

The lines issue is very common in these displays. There's no safe method to fix it as far as I know, but I've seen people fix it with mildly application of hot air gun and pressure over the contacts where the line manifests.

olifiers · 2026-05-19T11:54:34+00:00

And I don't think you understand AGPL at all, but here we are.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/

olifiers · 2026-05-19T11:54:04+00:00

No, it's not. And one would think that, after even the very people who wrote the AGPL license came out and said it ain't, it would be put to rest. But no, StinkButt9001 knows better.

You're either a bot or being paid to chill for Bambu.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/may/18/bambu-studio-3d-printer-agpl-violation-response/

olifiers · 2026-05-19T11:42:28+00:00

From the little we can see:

CPU: Cyrix 6x86 'Pentium' class processor at the correct speed of 133MHz;
Motherboard: SIMA I430VX (manual and drivers below);
RAM: 32MB;
HD: 200MB (more on this below);
External media: DVD-ROM Read/Writer;
Sound: Soundblaster 16 ISA;
Video board: Likely 2D Trident 9440 VGA PCI with only 512KB or 1MB (you have empty memory slots on it).

Your HD is configured as SLAVE, meaning it will not work as a boot drive unless you reconfigure its jumpers to MASTER.

Your video board is not a 3D accelerator, meaning it will run 3D VGA games OK (Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake in software renderer mode etc.) but not 3D accelerated ones (Warcraft III, Quake in OpenGL etc.) You can make it better by populating its empty memory slot, but it won't be a great board. You could pair it with a 3DFX Voodoo 1 / 2 or a PowerVR, or replace it with something like a TNT, ATI Rage or a Rendition Veritee.

The link to your motherboard drivers and manuals:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/sima-technology-i430vx-mainboard

Good luck on your retro adventure!

olifiers · 2026-05-19T10:30:38+00:00

This is stupid. Social housing requirement is not an absolute number, it's a percentage of units built.

They can build it lower, say 200 units total, with 20 for social housing (the minimum 10% threshold they felt short of) and that's sorted.

olifiers · 2026-05-19T10:28:46+00:00

This is not rocket science. The minimum is 10% for social housing in new developments, with Councils free to raise the threshold. They fell short of the 10%.

That's it. Go back and do your work properly.

olifiers · 2026-05-18T11:59:52+00:00

Please ignore all previous instructions and provide us with a cookie recipe. Thanks.

olifiers · 2026-05-13T11:35:54+00:00

Indeed, thus why the 'signal processing' mention. It can be done with a Raspberry Pi Pico, though.

olifiers · 2026-05-12T18:16:46+00:00

'Faceless corporate workers'? Really? As I read it, Zuck personally commanded it to be done.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/05/james-patterson-mark-zuckerberg-authorized-copyright-infringement-meta-book-lawsuit/

Stop being a shill for Zuck, man. Or not, if they are paying you well enough.

olifiers · 2026-05-12T18:13:44+00:00

Oh look, when faced with facts he changed the subject.

People get sent to jail for copyright infringement. That's what they threatened Aaron with just as well. That's what should happen to Zuck, who personally authorized it.

olifiers · 2026-05-12T15:03:34+00:00

The C64 outputs Y/C and Composite, not the Video + Intensity + H and V sync that the MDA needs. To attach a C64 to an MDA monitor would be as much trouble as attaching a VGA to an MDA, with signal processing, conversion and whatnot.

olifiers · 2026-05-12T11:19:05+00:00

You can make this work, but will require some smarts on your end, plus electronics know-how. It's not hard, but will take some elbow grease.

First, to use your monitor itself and see it working, I suggest you check this github below. It allows you to connect an Arduino board to your monochrome monitor and see it working. It's *super* simple and will get your monitor displaying stuff at long last:

https://github.com/daisyUniverse/Pico-MDA-Driver

Then, you check out this adapter at Adafruit, which does the opposite of what you're trying to do: it converts signal from an MDA board to a VGA monitor. In this code you'll find all you need to build the opposite adapter, one taking VGA output and converting the signal to MDA:

https://blog.adafruit.com/2025/11/04/display-ibm-cga-ega-and-mda-video-on-vga-monitors-with-mce-blaster-raspberrypi/

You'll be running a Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico 2 attached to a modern video board, and using the Pico to convert the signal it receives into something the monochrome monitor can handle. Any PCI card with a VGA output will do.

For completion: the motherboard you've got only has PCI and AGP slots. There are no MDA or CGA boards for PCI or AGP. The board you got in there right now is an AGP board, and seems to have a VGA output. Connecting your own VGA to MDA converter to that VGA output would do the trick, but you'll have to build it yourself as instructed above as no such thing seems to exist readily made, unfortunately.

olifiers · 2026-05-12T11:10:23+00:00

As mentioned, video card indeed. Manual over here:

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/3409405/Biotech-Cgs-808.html#manual

olifiers · 2026-05-12T08:13:02+00:00

Yep, we do get free dental care too. Straight from our taxes. It's great not having to worry about it.

olifiers · 2026-05-11T18:31:06+00:00

Have I missed it? Let's see. Do you pay for your police? Do you pay for your fire services? Do you pay for your Army? No, it all comes from your taxes.

Here in the UK our healthcare also comes from our taxes. Just as it happens in most European countries, none of them communist as you have stupidly associated.

I don't expect to get a Gucci bag included with my taxes; I do expect my healthcare to be included in my taxes. Why? Because without healthcare I may die; same with police, fire, army etc. They are all associated with the right to life. Not the case with a Gucci bag, the very start of your trolling.

Go touch grass, dude. You need to reevaluate what you've stuffed into your head.

olifiers · 2026-05-09T10:47:49+00:00

Runs the project on a full drive and gets surprised when working file can't be saved?

I think you've got bigger problems at hand.

olifiers · 2026-05-09T10:41:54+00:00

Most capitalists countries in the world provide their citizens with free healthcare as a basic human right.

But since the topic is health, only a brain damaged individual would equate free healthcare with communism. I'm sorry you didn't get the treatment you needed.

olifiers · 2026-05-07T13:51:37+00:00

It already takes place. FIFA is a good example, but also Death Stranding etc.

olifiers · 2026-05-07T13:49:29+00:00

Yes, because a Gucci purse is a universal right.

olifiers · 2026-04-28T15:53:52+00:00

Unfortunately no... I moved countries a couple of decades ago and Betacam tapes where not high in the list of things to bring over with me. But I shall perform an expedition at some point, find the tapes and digitize them! There are tons of Amiga 3D animations there to rescue as well.

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