Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[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.

[fabrixxm@social.gl-como.it]

1320 cookies, at 20g at cookie it's 24.6Kg of cookies... that's a lot of cookies...

[fred@social.fthevenet.eu]

@fribbledom yeah... I think if I had to pinpoint a defining moment for my vocation as a professional computer toucher, teenage me successfully getting Wing Commander 3 to run would probably be it! (Damn you, Mitsumi CD-ROM drive!!)

[artwaw@c.im]

@fribbledom I feel very seen right now.

[boysenberrycider@mastodon.social]

@alesroubicek @fribbledom if you're interested, I set up xububtu on an old netbook with 1GB of ram, and found Firefox can still be really fast, but their current defaults blow chunks. Some of it is telemetry (and now AI), some of it is dumb choices. If you mess around with the settings it can easily be as fast as you remember.

I think from memory this is the guide I used:

https://linuxreviews.org/HOWTO_Make_Mozilla_Firefox_Blazing_Fast_On_Linux

Apologies for dropping in with unasked-for advice.

[dr_laemmerbein@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom Ah, it was nice to have that much time. And the occasional defrag run!

[alesroubicek@indieweb.social]

@BoysenberryCider @fribbledom thanks, I removed the GUI completely from that machine and use it as a server.

[takosix@famichiki.jp]

@fribbledom

Never forget

SET BLASTER = A220 I7 D1 T4

[kevin@dice.camp]

@deepfryed or socks you just purchased

[hub8889@piaille.fr]

@ATLeagle

why do you need two kernels ? One is enough, IMHO

@fribbledom

[jollysea@chaos.social]

@fribbledom only to suggest you buy a weirdly shaped object. they don't even use all that data they collect in a way that would advance anything!

[yacc143@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom
I can sadly confirm that figure. A docker container with a scraper worker that starts internally a browser and does the whole Chaptcha bullshit comes at about 1.5-2.0GB depending on the website, so a fully interactive website with some history on memory at 2.0gb sounds reasonable with Chrome.

And it doesn't sound too bad my router has 64GB nowadays.

But then I remember my first computer had 64KB RAM (and wasn't that huge) and a super fast 1Mhz 8 bit CPU.

[liseo@kuupiaq.social]

@guilevi @fribbledom also to give you more adds, for sox.

[benofbrown@toot.cat]

@fribbledom I somehow deleted AUTOEXEC.BAT once

[sundancer@metalhead.club]

@fribbledom "do I really need the CD driver? can I go without for game X?"

Gods what time that was.

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@dbrgn @fribbledom Boom! Boom!

[normandunbar@mastodon.scot]

@hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom Dual core CPU?