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highvoltage | @highvoltage@pleroma.debian.social

☮️ Secular humanist ☀️ Solarpunk 👦 Free Software Geek 🍥 Debian Developer
🇿🇦 Cape Town 👼🏼 Pope 🤔 INTJ ⚡ Resistance is not futile 🔌 Survival is insufficient

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@georgetakei There was a french cartoon that was on TV in South Africa in the 80's with a character that looked almost exactly like that, but I can't remember what it was and it's been bothering me.

Phoronix phoronix@masto.ai

Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI

As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and CodeWeavers' CrossOver software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-Released

Aral Balkan aral@mastodon.ar.al

“Our job is not to report both sides. One side says it’s raining and the other side says it is not raining. Our job is to look out the window.”

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2023/11/14/rain-look/

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Kind of amazing how little RAM a minimal NetBSD installation needs.

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@dzu Nope, my physical monitors is obviously arranged the same now. Thanks GNOME!

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Surely there's a better way to get the hot corner working on all my screens 😅

Kevin Woblick Kovah@mastodon.social

Read indie comics and play games that are definitely better than Candy Crush. And much more. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

The only problem is: Google is not your friend. All the cool stuff is hidden below a thick layer of commercial sites that all try to squeezy every penny out of you and sell your data. However, once you reach the indie stuff, a whole new world will open to you.

There are a few websites you can use to dive into the cool web.
2/3

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And after a lot of yak shaving and cleaning and looking for a serial mouse, I have a win98 setup up and running again. Nothing special, a 233mhz Pentium with 128MB ram and a S3 virge DX display card. I also rescued this mosaic software mouse pad from ending up in the trash earlier this year.

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This is a Roland MT120s. It's a boom box and midi player which can play midi files directly from floppies. I got this one as a birthday present 2 years ago. It has quite punchy sound so it is actually nice even just to use as external speakers. Been meaning to try Monkey Island on it to see how good it's gaming playback is.

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This is a Roland UM4, it converts from USB to old school external midi ports. I bought it from a retired musician in Blouberg. He took a lot of time to explain that it only works with Windows 98. Not Windows 95, not Windows Me. I plugged it into my Debian testing/Trixie machine though and it picked it up just fine.

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Back in 1993 I remember some friends saying they wanted to build one of these. We were just starting to play .mod files on PC speakers, and with this mod, which is basically just a DAC consisting of bunch of resistors on the parallel port, providing surprisingly good sound. I bought this premade one called the Silly Sound Bastard but spent little time with it so far, I think this will go with one of my 386 builds.

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I needed a mono screen for my XTs so last month I bid the equivalent of $1 per monitor and ended up winning 5 of them. At least they are all working but that's a project for another day.

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I would like to show off some of my ancient audio hardware. This is a Creative Audigy 2 card along with the external sound card that accompanies it that works over FireWire. I also have a Roland JV-1080, people often mistake it for an amp when they look around in my garage but it is actually a synthesiser. Many 90's songs were made on this, which is why I got one so that I could recreate them very closely if I wanted to. Tonight I'm cleaning these and see how far I can fix up my win98 PC.

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I am pissed off at the entire world right now so I'm going to the garage where no one will bother me and play with old computers.

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@mjg59 If only they could make decisions based on values and what the right thing to do is at any given time, instead of making this about a choice between individuals. I know, I know, that is a ridiculous idea these days.

Matthew Garrett mjg59@nondeterministic.computer

…ok putting the FSF where they're going to have to choose between supporting Drew DeVault or Jack Dorsey is *extremely* funny

Pirate Praveen praveen@social.masto.host

Dear who care about and , we have been paying for 3 servers (1 each for diasp.in and durare.org and another for testing the migration) till now and hope to drop 2 of them soon. For we have raised on 16.83 (durare.org and its clone used for testing diasp.in migration) usd out of ~34 usd till January 2025. For , we will publish the account soon once we get a balance from Navodaya's RazorPay account.

Consider donating https://diasp.in/#donate

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@dansup Well, we're not a fedi project per sé, but from the Debian side we try to promote fedi and have thrown quite a bit of resources behind it and will very likely step it up a lot further and double down on that

Daniel Supernault dansup@mastodon.social

Super pumped for our upcoming Kickstarter.

Couldn't have come at a better time.

People Powered Platforms are the future.

Spread the word.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks

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@tommi @debian @frameworkcomputer I just plomped the banner image from the artwork competition into the installer, so it still needs a bit work... but wow what a colour clash lol!

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