RussianEngineer

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[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 21 points 9 months ago

y'all didnt know that?

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 32 points 11 months ago

4 years? has it really been? fuck... been here since the old CTH lifeboat discord server, so much has changed... so many inside jokes... so many struggle sessions... so many libs...

heres to 4 more years everyone heart-sickle hexbear-retro

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

only if it has one of the chipsets which will allow full DMA over the isa slot, aka the intel 8xx series

the intel 865/875 is the best one as it supports a faster FSB over the older 845 and 815 chipsets

they're kinda rare tho and if it does have one, the 845 with the slower FSB is way more common then the others

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

athlon XPs dont support DMA over their ISA bus. the p4 can with specific chipsets

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

yes, even the awful netbursts have their use. and no, that use is not "spaceheater" even if they do that as a secondary function

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

another issue with the static linking is the larger binary sizes it causes, meaning more of my precious disk space is wasted!!! another big issue on extremely resource limited systems such as 90s equipment with hard drives measured in hundreds of megabytes. i have gentoo running on a OG pentium (coz its one of the few distros left that truely supports it, via their i486 branch) and i have a dedicated hard drive for all the package management files and other caches portage uses lmao

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (6 children)

a 80386, multiple 80486's, a pentium-133, a pentium2, and two non-sse2 pentium4s. and they all have useful purposes for various things. things you cant do with an emulator

old

stinky

now look here buddy shoulder-grab

modern tech delenda est

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (13 children)

rust takes AGES to compile literally anything. also the compiler on i686 requiring SSE2 instructions is a massive thorn in my side as a old computer user and is the primary driver of my hatred of rust lmao. it gets in my way quite a lot since rust has creeped its way into a lot of open source projects these days

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

androgen blockers are to block testosterone production, or testosterone's bodily absorption

when you take hormones orally by swallowing, most of it gets filtered out by your liver. this is why oral estrogen sits under your tongue for 20 minutes so it can absorb into your blood directly

injections are always the superior method anyway but not everyone can get them sadly

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

new-york style bagels are boiled instead of baked, which gives them a smooth shiny outside

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

please dont synthesize stuff you're going to inject into your body in your bathtub. use sanitary chemistry glassware please

[–] RussianEngineer@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

thanks windows for validating my unhealthy paranoia around privacy

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