Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[renardboy@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom For a while before I had to pay bills using online services I had a "pure" CLI setup, running barebones distros without X installed. Was pretty cool, had a command line application for just about anything. Even wrote a novel using a text-based word processor called wordgrinder.

It was surprising how much you could still see of the web using elinks, I could even use facebook Unsurprisingly banking was out of the picture though, I had to borrow my mom's windows laptop to do that.

[mtnrbq65@social.vivaldi.net]

@Megawatt @fribbledom

himem.sys

[bitterseeds@fosstodon.org]

@fribbledom NoScript helps.

[geepawhill@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom Sure, but think about how very much more surveillance that tab can do!

[brouhaha@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom
Given how much money I just paid for 64 GiB of DDR5 ECC RDIMMs, I'm going to start billing all web sites that run JavaScript on my computer.

[artemis@climatejustice.social]

@fribbledom I hated that the guy in the electronics shop thought he had to explain usb stick sizes to me because I was a clueless old lady, not because my first computer had 16K of RAM and a cassette tape. 128 gig of storage the size of a car key blows my mind.

[alesroubicek@indieweb.social]

@fribbledom just starting Firefox on a Ubuntu machine with 4GB RAM mostly ends up with a crash. I remember times when I cherished the Firebird browser on my thumbstick and used it on whatever computer I was sitting on.

[gloriouscow@oldbytes.space]

@fribbledom

what kinda socks we talkin about here

[popekingjoe@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom relevant

[brahvim@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@fribbledom ...More like 1,700 companies these days...

[roadskater@mastodon.social]

@syferdet @fribbledom In the future?

[deepfryed@fosstodon.org]

@fribbledom best part is the ads they show you won't be anything related to socks.

[scott@sfba.social]

@fribbledom ah! A happy childhood!

[yurkshirelad@mastodon.social]

@lord @fribbledom We care about your privacy. Here’s a list of our 970 partners.

[viharm@twit.social]

@fribbledom

well said

[jeroenvanbergen@mstdn.social]

@mtnrbq65 @Megawatt @fribbledom TSR

[dwardoric@chaos.social]

@GeePawHill @fribbledom Recently spoke with an old friend and he was like "I miss the days when I knew exactly why the activity led on my hard drive or floppy was flickering."
I agree.

[abmallgren@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom They don't have construction materials in Europe either?

[cy@fedicy.us.to]

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[abramkedge@beige.party]

@fribbledom remember, exTENDed memory TENDs to be useful, while exPanded memory is Practically useless.

Back in those days I regularly had to talk sewerage workers through editing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to get the data from their gas safety monitors to upload. There was only one editor guaranteed to be installed on their computers, edlin -- which could be a challenge.

Funny enough, unlike a few of our directors, not one of them had any problems following the instructions over the phone.