Jamie

C, Linux, networking, MS-DOS, old stuff. he/him

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2024-12-22 12:25:28

I'd previously been using the #LocalAI Vulkan container for #LLM inference. Recently I got #ROCm working on my RX 5600 XT thanks to #Debian and it's 2x to 4x faster. Cool. Today I compiled #llamacpp Vulkan server from source and inference runs at the same speed as ROCm. I wonder what's going on here...

2023-12-28 22:05:46

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@npub1xgv…egwe The 2% is spent on the Linux kernel. The vast majority is spent on the other 900+ projects which Linux Foundation also sponsor, so they invest in the entire Linux ecosystem not just one project.
Nonsense post by nonsense author, recommend taking this down so as not to promote them.

2023-12-20 20:37:31

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@npub1fja…ywqk To be fair I actually prefer C99

2023-12-19 23:47:43

Please enjoy this meme I made as a goof. #CProgramming #GoLang #Rust #Zig #ProgrammerHumor
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2023-12-13 20:58:52

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@npub19s3…t5g0 my favourite retro game is not defining retro games because I don't want to gatekeep this hobby, I want it to be friendly and inclusive

2023-12-13 08:44:53

A CLA? Really? Yikes. No thanks to anything Canonical anymore.
https://stgraber.org/2023/12/12/lxd-now-re-licensed-and-under-a-cla/
#LXD #LXC #LinuxContainers #Linux #Canonical #Ubuntu

2023-12-06 08:23:39

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@npub1xx9…zpsn @npub1aqe…yqy2 Cool, nice and ethical of you, excellent stuff man 👍
I find only certain torrent clients support web torrents which have had files added since the torrent was created. Most notably, Transmission doesn't support them, and Transmission is the default client in Orange Linux Mint so it's probably the client a lot of people are trying first. Especially ex-Ubu users like us.

2023-12-05 22:11:42

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@npub1xx9…zpsn @npub1aqe…yqy2 My first thought is that leeching from Internet Archive has been a problem in the past, so everyone jumping on a multi-threaded downloader doesn't seem to be the best direction. They provide web torrents for unattended downloading and other people can participate in those too, that's probably a more preferable solution?

2023-12-03 20:31:27

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@npub1y4h…t26u This whole album is gold 👌

2023-12-03 20:30:51

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@npub1y4h…t26u The game on the PlayStation 🎶 💙

2023-11-28 11:57:45

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@npub1ttt…dpyz I looked into this a little more. The game was made by a single developer for the CPC, that person was also an active pilot in the German air force! He wanted to make a simulator which was not only accurate to fight but also to the non-flight parts of being a pilot from driving your car to the airport to the office work of your flight plan, radio frequencies, etc. I'm sufficiently fascinated enough to watch a longplay. https://youtu.be/OoBVOth3yZs

2023-11-28 09:54:01

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@npub1ttt…dpyz Ha, I haven't played it but I would be surprised if the flight segments even remotely approach say MS Flight Sim quality.
Loriciel made lots of strange and unique games. I'm actually doing a post series about them at the moment if you're interested: https://www.instagram.com/msdosfloppy/
I wasn't going to cover A320 but having discussed it here now I think I will :)

2023-11-28 02:33:39

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@npub1ttt…dpyz It really is hey. Things like this are why I love games from this era. It wasn't all clones of Doom and C&C, people made weird experimental things and sometimes they even work really well, which is delightfully surprising.
If an experiment didn't work, the time and cost of making a then-AAA game was not so high that the entire studio would fail because of one dud release.
That said, I'm not sure dropping the player from an adventure game into a commercial jet flightsim is so great 😅

2023-11-28 00:54:06

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@npub1ttt…dpyz A320 for the Amstrad CPC? https://www.mobygames.com/game/37587/a-320/

2023-11-20 04:03:42

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@npub1hkk…lv3a Yes, absolutely worth the play.
There is no Portal or TF2 style humour in it. Half-Life came before all that.
I've only played the original game, but I'm sure both Black Mesa and this latest 25th Anniversary are good versions too.

2023-11-19 02:40:24

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@npub1f3n…e887 You just reminded me I want to watch Beat Street again!

2023-11-11 09:40:07

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@npub1p26…ahsy They were masters of EGA art. Quest For Glory and Monkey Island also have particularly some great scenes.

2023-11-02 01:23:17

"If your script becomes larger than what’d be appropriate to store in a single reasonably sized function, it should no longer be a script."
What if the script has functions and each function can be tested separately?
https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2023/10/29/Avoid-Load-bearing-Shell-Scripts/
#Programming #ShellScripts #SoftwareDevelopment

2023-10-31 09:39:35

TIL #Vim can natively rot13 encode/decode with the `g?` operator. It really does have everything!

2023-10-22 07:55:23

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@npub1dmu…f09z @npub1y4h…t26u I looked but can't find. MyAbandonware, Total DOS Collection 14, exoDOS v5, Internet Archive MS-DOS player all have v1.07 shareware. I wonder if you've discovered some lost media.

2023-10-22 07:44:54

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@npub1dmu…f09z @npub1y4h…t26u https://www.myabandonware.com/game/jumpjet-2ki

2023-10-17 01:46:51

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@npub1f3n…e887 Strange, I have experienced the same thing and wondered the same. We have evidently grinded enough Onion XP that we've levelled up. Now we have to chop the Boss Onion to progress further.

2023-10-13 02:49:12

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Thanks, I got a good chuckle out of that :)

2023-10-11 07:42:22

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@npub1dm5…5sqe Temperature probe for oven which can cook until a specific inner food temperature. Stick it in a roast and set your desired temperature. I have exactly the same part but mine is black not red. Oven purchased new 6 months ago.

2023-10-10 00:02:28

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@npub1y4h…t26u https://soulsphere.org/apocrypha/e1m1/

2023-10-09 22:10:27

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@npub1gwd…e8wl Retro-bit are known for fairly poor quality. I wouldn't buy it. As others have said, 8BitDo are a better option. You could also consider an official Saturn controller with a USB adaptor though that's not wireless.

2023-10-08 09:41:45

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@npub184l…94dw I assume because Debian don't want people installing NetworkManager and then having it take over, which might result in non-stable sort of behaviour?

2023-10-08 01:29:57

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@npub1rv0…xuyz Yes that's correct. RealSound played PCM audio over the PC speaker, so you'd get (low quality) voice and sound effects more like a real soundcard, not just bleeps and bloops like Commander Keen. So this would let you hear that over your hi-fi system instead of tinny little PC speaker cone. I am not sure about resistor vs capacitor in this application. Even funnier if they got the wiring diagram wrong!

2023-10-07 22:56:12

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@npub184l…94dw You can change that. In /etc/network/interfaces just have the loopback, nothing else. In NetworkManager.conf remove the ifupdown plugin and use only NM's native keyfiles. Reboot. Don't use the "ifup/ifdown" commands anymore, use proper "nmcli con up/down".

2023-10-07 07:17:09

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@npub127z…rc2r Haha yes! I'm actually more familiar with it from the sequel Martian Memorandum, and from Countdown made on the same engine.

2023-10-07 06:51:24

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@npub1kje…6dht Yeah I don't agree with everything on that page either. I'm still using regular include guards like it's 1973.

2023-10-07 05:43:08

My favourite manual page ever, Mean Streets tells you to hook your PC speaker up to your hi-fi system to hear that sweet Access Software RealSound™ #DOSGaming #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #MSDOS
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2023-10-07 04:58:21

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@npub1kje…6dht To some people, yes: https://matt.sh/howto-c

2023-10-06 23:40:49

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@npub13dj…l9qf I love how the original X-Com had the bug where it reverted to Easy after the first Battlescape, so everyone thought it was "too easy" not realising they were playing on lowest difficulty. For TFTD they ramped up the difficulty, and golly was it harder lol

2023-10-06 09:24:01

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@npub1xj5…9563 It isn't mixing distro repos. Flatpak applications are contained within their own filesystem using the same Linux namespace technology as containers. Whether you get the Flatpak application from Flathub's flatpakrepo or Fedora's flatpakrepo has absolutely no effect on the underlying host distro.

2023-10-06 05:15:56

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@npub1xj5…9563 I also don't like the Firefox situation on native Debian. You can run the latest from Flathub Flatpak repo or from Fedora's Flatpak repo. Flathub also has LibreWolf if you'd prefer a privacy-oriented Firefox spin.

2023-10-05 05:18:44

Perfect. #Debian #Linux
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2023-10-03 08:40:08

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@npub1njn…7e6l What do you do with it? I find setting up multiple DOSBox C drives works well for me. One for games, one for each various coding environment, etc. I switch them with a batch file menu, and I've used LaunchBox to do the same.

2023-10-03 08:37:44

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@npub1hkk…lv3a Constructive Solid Geometry. Imagine all you have is squares and circles. You can make boxes or spheres or cones. You can add a shape, wrap two shapes in a solid sheet, and you can take a shape out like a slice out of a cake. Repeat that until you have the final shape you want. That's the sort of modelling a practical print like a plumbing part probably needs to be made with. My aircon service guy also 3D models and prints his own components.

2023-10-01 11:56:43

There are few things more satisfying than a data structure and algorithm implementation which remove all extra cruft and get right to the heart off the pattern, but is also so well written as to be reusable anywhere. #programming #datastructures #algorithms

2023-09-27 20:03:28

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@npub1rqq…ynw6 All these are great (except Ultima 8) but my strongest recommendation is Syndicate. Easy to pick up and play but gets really really hard at the end.

2023-09-21 13:43:13

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@npub106z…ztdu @npub1njn…7e6l Depends on the era! The developer of The Fool's Errand apparently preferred 512x384 Macintosh without colour, instead of DOS and Amiga 320x200 with colour.

2023-09-21 08:44:10

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@npub1njn…7e6l Every time I see this I can't believe how good the game looks in black-and-white. One of the first release platforms was the Classic Mac, so it makes sense, still incredible tho.

2023-09-18 05:56:09

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@npub12kp…x755 I have written about hundreds of DOS games and I can't think of a female in the shareware scene. My mind does go to Laura Kampo who did the writing for Bloodnet, Hell, and Bureau 13. Questionable gameplay but damn were the worlds excellent and captivating because of her. I still replay Bloodnet just to walk around and chat to NPCs. I also suspect Muffy Berlyn did a lot of uncredited work on Michael Berlyn's games (Infidel, Suspended, Les Manley, etc)

2023-09-17 21:34:52

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@npub1y4h…t26u I'd love to see the earlier versions. I wonder if the author still has them? I'll ask him

2023-09-17 00:53:19

The aesthetic piracy ad. #RetroComputing #RetroGaming #BBS #MSDOS
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2023-09-16 22:50:01

Blown away by "Anacreon: Reconstruction 4021" - a DOS 4X game with text-based GUI which pre-dates Master of Orion by 6 years! #RetroGaming #MSDOS #Anacreon #MasterOfOrion
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2023-09-15 04:11:56

TIL @npub15sa…336g has a podcast about video game history with over a hundred episodes. This will keep me occupied for a while! #RetroGaming #RetroComputing #MSDOS #podcast
https://gamehistory.org/the-video-game-history-hour/

2023-09-13 08:29:22

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@npub1e7m…7x48 Put a motion sensor and speaker inside so you can bump it and it says Gonk

2023-09-07 23:26:41

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@npub1y4h…t26u If you mean WASD altogther, Dark Castle on the Mac used it in 1986! I discovered this recently: https://www.instagram.com/p/CwimGbpB0_E/

2023-09-05 10:01:10

Did anyone ever seriously use the Windows 3 Hot Dog Stand theme?!?
#retrocomputing #retrogaming #windows #windows3 #hotdogstand #microsoft #msdos
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2023-08-21 00:33:13

Got this old #7DRL #roguelike called Scrap from 2005 compiled in DOS. You're a robot and go around robbing parts from other robots, like an early version of #Cogmind. Pretty cool.
https://www.roguebasin.com/index.php/Scrap
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2023-07-17 00:00:58

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@npub1y4h…t26u Glad he's got at least some rights to his music. iiuc he still doesn't own Dune: Spice Opera, which would be a big seller. Copies still go for $100+ on Discogs/eBay.