Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom "do I really need the CD driver? can I go without for game X?"
Gods what time that was.
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@fribbledom that's what a SOCKS proxy is made for... I think.
@dbrgn @fribbledom Boom! Boom!
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@hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom Dual core CPU?
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what kinda socks we talkin about here
@gloriouscow @fribbledom obviously, Lockheed Martin Pride Socks.
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@hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom Dual core CPU?
@NormanDunbar @hub8889 @ATLeagle @fribbledom
Whatever the opposite of SMP is -
Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom @NormanDunbar
Files=40 Yes! -
Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom but does the Browser tab require EMS vor XMS?
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@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.@brouhaha @fribbledom We all should. Want my data? Want my compute and memory? You pay for it.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom DOS 6.22 memmaker; good times
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom 640 KB? Luxury!
When I were a lad, I used to have to write x=10 rather than x = 10 so that I could fit everything into 16 KB.
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@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.
@artemis @fribbledom I still remember the first person I knew who had a 1 gig hard drive. I was so confused--'what are you going to do with all that space?'
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@artemis @fribbledom I still remember the first person I knew who had a 1 gig hard drive. I was so confused--'what are you going to do with all that space?'
@clonedhuman @artemis @fribbledom My first hard drive was 20 MB!
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@clonedhuman @artemis @fribbledom My first hard drive was 20 MB!
@BoloMKXXVIII @clonedhuman @fribbledom SO MUCH SPACE
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom Which was it now? Expanded memory or extended memory?
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@fribbledom@mastodon.social Me and my 1320 partners are asking your permission to put a cookie in your browser to grant you the privilege to display 5KB of our precious ai generated content on our 85MB web page.
@lord @fribbledom and this amount of "partners" is considered low, by current standards ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom
> fit everything into 640 KBThere were times before computers got that unimaginble huge amounts of RAM (640kB).
Then we (I am a greybeard) were forced to code our silicon chess players into the 1kB, GUI included:
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@12thRITS @fribbledom No, this is exec.bat. For autoexec.bat, replace it with an AI.
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Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to fit everything into 640 KB.
Now one browser tab needs 2 GB of RAM so 17 analytics companies can find out I looked at socks.
@fribbledom
128Gb of RAM :
$229.99 as of 2025-02-16
$669.99 as of 2025-12-29
$869.99 as of 2026-02-18
$1,099.99 as of 2026-03-11
$1,199.99 as of 2026-05-21Dual 1TB NVMs :
$104.99 as of 2025-03-26
$282.99 as of 2025-12-29
$299.00 as of 2026-03-21
$292.00 as of 2026-06-17I bought at the right time! I had been hesitating on making the investment in rebuilding my home server . . .
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@12thRITS @fribbledom this one never gets old
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@12thRITS @fribbledom oh shit! It took me while
