Spent my childhood optimizing CONFIG

[ohir@social.vivaldi.net]

@fribbledom
> fit everything into 640 KB

There 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:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess

[jens@social.finkhaeuser.de]

@12thRITS @fribbledom No, this is exec.bat. For autoexec.bat, replace it with an AI.

[whitemice@mastodon.social]

@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 2026-05-21

Dual 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 2026-06-17

I bought at the right time! I had been hesitating on making the investment in rebuilding my home server . . .

[markatmicrochip@mastodon.social]

@12thRITS @fribbledom this one never gets old

[olonam@masto.nuvadi.net]

@12thRITS @fribbledom oh shit! It took me while

[low@lgbtqia.space]

@fribbledom I recently saw a video from an ex MS developer who recreated notepad in under 2.5 KB (I think) and I don't want to know what the current size of it is.

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@wolf480pl @fribbledom taxing programs for ram use because they're only going to use it badly

[patterfloof@meow.social]

@fribbledom GB used to be for permanent file storage, not so chrome could show me the wrong opening hours for a local shop

[ingram@mastodon.social]

@fribbledom And if you had some EMS or XMS the hours spent trying to LOADHIGH to make use of all that extravagance.

And to think people criticised the "bloat" of VBRUN300.DLL back in the day.

[seedy60@vee.seedy.cc]

@fribbledom But I thought 640KB was enough for anyone?

[fribbledom@mastodon.social]

@seedy60

Only when barefoot.

[whynotzoidberg@topspicy.social]

@fribbledom Extra funny when running Linux: the whole OS starts up using <850 MB. Starts Firefox, opens one tab: Memory use now 3.5GB.

[christopherkunz@chaos.social]

@fribbledom Were they Winsocks?

I‘ll see myself out.

[ainsleylowbeer@mastodon.social]

@christopherkunz @fribbledom

Don't Trumpet your ignorance on this platform.

[sahqon@beige.party]

@fabrixxm Someone should sue them for the non-delivery of cookies they promised.

[wolf480pl@mstdn.io]

@patterfloof
websites should be paying us for loading them in our browser! /hj
@fribbledom

[smartmanapps@dotnet.social]

@fribbledom

[mathew@universeodon.com]

@the_wub @fribbledom Let’s try to be socks positive.

[aquarion@mendeddrum.org]

@fribbledom My New Hobby: Opening random "partner" options on these boxes, finding their privacy policy, and noting whether it:
a) 404s, or
b) is "Our Legitimate Interest is that we want to track you".
Both of which are (untestedly) illegal.

[niko@graz.social]

@fribbledom progress