Essem :skeeter:

Essem :skeeter:

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started looking at the emacs tour out of curiosity somehow they elaborate on what the keybind `C-h t` means (ctrl+h and then t), but don't do the same with `M-:` which comes immediately afterwards

so what would one do with an early 2000s windows xp celeron desktop with integrated graphics and 256mb ram too new for dos, too old for most other stuff, might be too weak for playing games from the era

midnight thoughts: what would it take to be able to produce/manufacture a working audio CD from scratch without outsourcing/using an existing plant

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one reason why i'm disappointed is because they literally just released a kinda neat thing for writing desktop apps; it could be used like a lighter electron or tauri, or you could forego HTML entirely and render everything yourself (which gets real interesting with its webgpu implementation)

i think it's really, really bad that the most viable way for most websites to defend against attacks nowadays is to have a single company that hosts/defends/funds harassment groups/fascists and provides services to booters who do these kinds of attacks for payment act as a middleman to your server

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i would really like to see a distro deliver its install medium as a unified system image (USI) someday imagine the install steps for a major distro being "extract this zip file to a usb stick and boot from it", no reformatting/flashing required

this is a quite modern (released in the last decade) system playing back chiptunes on a 30 year old PCI sound card with an OPL3-based FM synthesis core inside no emulation, no adapters, no converters, all native support

this is a relatively modern (released in the past decade) system playing back chiptunes on a 30 year old PCI sound card with an OPL3-based FM synthesis core inside no emulation, no adapters, no converters, all native support