TheCaconym

@TheCaconym@hexbear.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists uncover aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone on Earth has decided to call the Trisolarans, major mistake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨abandonware empires⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yeah, drivers are another thing entirely. Especially for what I imagine is very proprietary undocumented hardware. The only thing that can help there is a reverse engineer / kernel module dev.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨abandonware empires⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On that Windows 95 anecdote, by the way, beyond gaming that’s also one of the advantages of wine. Pretty sure their software would run perfectly on Linux with wine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At what size of transistor does semiconductor manufacturing become practical for independent manufacture?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is an answer but you’ll probably only manage to get it by going through semiconductor devices history and determining the hardware required at each step.

  A quick search yielded this blog post though of someone attempting - and managing - production of a basic 1200-transistors semiconductor device in their garage, which I found rather neat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cairo Toe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It really is good. Amazingly, they didn’t dub it: the actors filmed all scenes in Norwegian, then filmed them again from scratch in English.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cairo Toe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me of this scene

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banksy Encourages Fans to Shoplift From Guess Since Company 'Helped Themselves to My Artwork Without Asking’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  lmao almost got me, was about to rant until I saw the nickname