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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

@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.

@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

@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!

@olasd Thanks for the transcription... of course I listened to it right after making the post

@olasd @th Last night I made Tacos and was very amused at the language on the spices that came with the taco kit. Didn't realise it's actually a thing!

@weblearning Check local vintage computer clubs, there are often people who will like restoring/repairing anything and preserve it to show it to future generations

@256 I made my first batch of websites in Frontpage Express, which was included with Windows 98!

@dansup I saw the new apps being slashdotted too! So probably lots of nerds incoming.