Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse

• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not a bad idea. How do you actually partake that hobby? Is it more the same building things or the challenge of getting old hardware/software working?

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    A mix of both; finding old gear and combining parts to restore functional units, repairing where needed and learning more about how the systems work in the meantime.

    And older SIMMs and DIMMs are relatively cheap right now — you can create a maxed out system for its era and still do everything on the computer that was possible to do when it was new.

    There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

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    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s even great web proxies for older systems now, so if you want to, you can browse the modern web on a computer from 1996.

      Please tell me more.

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      • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        archive.org/details/win95_in_dosbox

        One of the classics

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    • henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well hey, I appreciate the recommendation. Maybe it’s time to get back into Windows 98 gaming. Just like mom used to make.

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      • cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There were actually some genuinely great games in those days, with compelling stories and that still hold up today, it wasn’t all Minesweeper and Pong.

        A few highlights: Master Of Orion 2, Deus Ex, SimCity 2000 and 3000, TIE Fighter (or if you’re rebel scum: X-Wing, or X-Wing vs TIE Fighter), Half-Life, Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft II, Ultima VII: The Black Gate and Ultima VII: Serpent Isle, Mechwarrior 2, Age of Empires, Fury^3, Fallout 2, Baldur’s Gate 2.

        Don’t be misled by the fact that some of these games are obviously sequels, or had console versions, or have had other sometimes even more well-known sequels and remakes since then. There are some genuine reasons to play the original specific game versions I’m listing here, to play them exactly as they were originally presented. Many of them have unique features and aspects that haven’t been repeated. It’s not just a Madden 15 vs Madden 16 situation, where you’ve played one you’ve played both. There may be a bit of rose-tinted nostalgia goggles in this list, I would certainly love the chance to go back and play some of these for the first time again, but there are also many genuine outliers even among their own franchises, that are unique and incredible, and genre-defining in many cases.

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      • tal@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works looked smug as hell. They’d been telling everyone for years.

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• notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I really need to get a new display replacement for my old vaio f series laptop. The screen layers are doing the funny vinegar thing. That and some sort of ssd. Maybe a USB Dom or some msata thing with a converter board.

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