Bernie

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Nomadic Linux developer, currently in Boston.

#linux #rust #anime #spacex #cycling #travel #vegan #retrocomputing #amiga #fedi23

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2024-10-27 04:26:54

Is there a contest for the most hacked #C64 board in history?
All the original ICs have been replaced with modern clones, except for a few remaining RAMs (not sure why).
#retrocomputing #commodore #amiwest
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2024-10-26 22:28:32

I'm thinking of getting a Z3660 accelerator for my recently restored #Amiga 4000, which feels a bit sluggish with its original 68040 running at 25 MHz.
I've seen one of these at #AmiWest 2024 with the Z-turn FPGA daughter board, and the owner told me it can use one of its fast ARM cores to emulate a 68040 at crazy speed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqiEQtzGk-Q
#retrocomputing

2024-10-26 20:59:40

Dave Haynie's Q&A at AmiWest.
Dave is an amazing hardware engineer who was deeply involved with the design and evolution of multiple #Amiga models as well as earlier machines. He often shows up at community events with first-hand accounts on the life and death of #Commodore.
https://amiwest.net/schedule2024/
#retrocomputing
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2024-10-22 11:13:23

I'm comparing the #Framework motherboards with the AMD Ryzen 7840U against the Intel Ultra 7 155H, which is $120 more expensive.
The two processors appear to perform similarly on these benchmarks, and single-core performance is just the same of my current #System76 Lemur Pro with an ultra low-power Intel CPU (i7-1355U).
I couldn't find results to compare the integrated GPUs.
https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5322vs5677vs5317/AMD-Ryzen-7-7840U-vs-Intel-Ultra-7-155H-vs-Intel-i7-1355U
#benchmarks

2024-08-20 00:16:27

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Is this a tribute to the Space Shuttle? Nice.
#japan #spaceshuttle
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2024-08-20 00:01:30

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An inscription says 風の階段を登れ (kaze no kaidan wo nobore) = climb the staircase of the wind.
So it was a helicopter... one that wouldn't work, since it's missing the tail rotor to counter the torque 😏

2024-08-19 23:48:07

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Is this supposed to be a satellite or a helicopter?
Probably just aviation-inspired abstract art.
https://media.mstdn.io/mstdn-media/media_attachments/files/112/991/354/737/511/738/original/a62ccc650cf63136.jpg

2024-08-19 23:40:40

I'm biking around in the Tokorozawa Aviation Memorial Park (所沢航空記念公園).
It's 8 AM and the aviation museum is still closed.
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2024-08-17 15:22:42

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Ah. I had assumed that Intel's discrete GPUs would have the same high-quality Linux drivers of the integrated ones.
But now that I think about it a bit more: things might work very differently with dedicated video RAM.

2024-08-17 14:47:26

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I posted a similar poll on r/fedora for GPUs:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1euh9kl/which_gpu_vendor_do_you_prefer_for_your_linux/
#linux #fedora #gpu #amd #intel #nvidia

2024-08-17 12:53:18

Oh wow, wasn't expecting it: #AMD leads #Intel by 5 times in a survey on the #Fedora subreddit 😲
https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/1etyzt0/do_you_prefer_amd_or_intel_for_your_cpu/
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2024-07-02 06:56:41

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#Rustic and #Restic seem roughly equivalent for basic commands, and the on-disk repository format can be accessed by two separate implementations gives me a lot more confidence that it will be possible to restore a backup several years down the road.
https://rustic.cli.rs/docs/comparison-restic.html#storage-backends
@npub1f96…fp0d

2024-07-02 06:40:10

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omg, this Rustic is a format-compatible implementation of Restic, but _actually_ written in Rust!
I wasn't seriously expecting it to exist 🦄

2024-07-02 04:44:25

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The only real defect of #Restic is, of course, being written in Go rather than Rust. And why didn't they call it Gotic?? 😏
[@da_habakuk](https://fosstodon.org/@da_habakuk ) @npub1nwx…y0ul [@tootbrute](https://fedi.arkadi.one/@tootbrute )

2024-07-02 04:39:41

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I started evaluating Restic with a small subset of my home and I'm loving that I can do things like:
restic --repo sftp:xyz rewrite --exclude .git
restic --repo sftp:xyz rewrite --prune
and get some space back without starting over from a full backup!
Ok, this probably reads back the entire repo, so it should be done on the server, but still... isn't this cool?

2024-07-02 04:01:19

I asked #ChatGPT to propose some alternatives to the old Duplicity, and it came up with these:
* BorgBackup
* Restic
* rsync
* Rclone
* Attic
I asked for an actively-developed project with support good support for encrypted, incremental backups, shortening the list to:
* BorgBackup
* Restic
* Rclone
From this, ChatGPT would recommend #Restic. The rationale is in the chatlog:
https://chatgpt.com/share/6ef314d7-156c-4011-ac03-818758f38974
Would you humans agree? Please motivate your answer, and let's think step by step 🙂

2024-07-02 04:01:19

2024-06-30 06:28:48

Did you know that you could install #Commodore's official #UNIX #SVR4 on your real or emulated #Amiga?
I'd like to give it a shot. The main obstacle will be obtaining the boot floppies and the installation tape. Yes, Amix was distributed on a QIC-150 tape 😎
This is where I'd turn to one of several Amiga pirate boards in the '90s, but even those are long gone 😢
https://www.amigaunix.com/doku.php/installation
#unixporn #retrocomputing
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2024-06-16 01:40:13

I just played this 128-byte #C64 intro made by @npub1kew…hyfh for the #atparty #oldskool compo.
#demoscene #retrocomputing
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2024-06-09 03:53:45

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The #MEGA65 emulation seems to work well: I tried a couple of native demos and a preview of an upcoming game called Lala The Magical.
https://files.mega65.org?id=a0182829-1a5a-4e3a-a666-b52eafaa3ec9
#c65 #retrocomputing #retrogaming #8bit
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2024-06-09 03:49:18

Today I tried #Xemu, the only emulator for the #MEGA65
I built it from sources on Linux without trouble, then followed the online instructions to obtain the original #C65 rom and patch it with the latest improvements from the MEGA65 devs.
https://github.com/lgblgblgb/xemu
#retrocomputing #commodore #c64
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2024-05-17 18:15:18

Lethargy - Das Boot (2024)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9pkg2uLhGU
This demo made me smile a few times 🥲
#c64 #demoscene