Comment on What hobbies did you pick up during the pandemic and have you been able to keep them up?
PeterPoopshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Homebrew computers. I started with a 8 bit z80 and kept at it until I almost got a 80486 based homebrew working. I got it to run 3 bytes of prpgeam data before crashing one time. Computers are hard.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I think most people would be surprised that computers barely work. It’s only thanks to a bunch of tricks that make them seem more reliable than they are.
mapleseedfall@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What are some of those tricks? This seems interesting.
sebinspace@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The most common ones are things like ECC and RAID setups.