emr

emr , 1 month ago

The nice thing about Samba is that you can find clients for everything.

emr , 1 month ago

Great video. Haven't finished it yet, but did he ever explain why you'd want your media center to be luggable? I feel like if they'd ditched the screen and keyboard they would have something better than a modern streaming box except in 2006, but maybe they sold something like that too.

emr , 1 month ago

I'm trying to picture how the other room music is supposed to work. Are you cranking the volume on your TV speakers loud enough to hear in the other toom, or using the PC to control an extra set or far away speakers, or did people used to wire their houses with everywhere speakers controlled from a single receiver?

emr , 6 months ago

So like systemd but ten times more dramatic.

emr , 8 months ago

Warzone 2100 was my jam! They hadn’t actually got cutscenes working in the Linux port I was using so I was.very confused about the story.

emr , 8 months ago

Huh, TIL about the Pliche: lowendmac.com/musings/pliche.shtml

emr , 8 months ago

x86 apps? Awesome.

emr , 8 months ago

Termux used to rock but nowdays installing stuff is very hit or miss.

emr , 9 months ago

Baby Duck syndrome is real, and probably the reason I’m using Lubuntu; it superficially resembles the OSs I grew up using (Win9x/OS9/WinXP.) Windows, MacOS, Gnome, and Mate on the other hand relentlessly change their interfaces.

emr , 9 months ago

What’s crazy to me is that Linux was out way in front of this. Put me in front of windows back in the aughts and say ‘go install a program’ and you had to google it, hope you clicked the right download link, install it, hope you didn’t get a virus. Ubuntu you just opened up synaptic and bam, there was a wealth of programs you could just install with a single click. It was mind-blowing, and way easier than what everyone else offered.

emr , 9 months ago

Does Valve ship a usable desktop distro?

emr , 9 months ago

I’m sure they have sentimental/kitch value. At the very least, I’m sure a junk shop would take it off your hands.

emr , 9 months ago

MacOS was just about as jank as Windows 9x by my recollection.

The screen was nice, the USB support was nice. I didn’t hate the keyboard, though I was used to an IBM Model M so I hammered those keys…

emr , 9 months ago

I still don’t understand why IA picked a fight with publishers with the emergency library.

IA provides a really valuable service and they’re an incredibly juicy target. Going on anti-copyright crusades isn’t their mission.

emr , 9 months ago

It’s what I use for my home server and it’s great. You can even use VLC to stream music and stuff via samba.

emr , 9 months ago

Reason. It’s got a unique workflow that is hard to break from. I even tried Renoise, but it’s hard to switch.

emr , 9 months ago

Ambrosia Software published a bunch of Mac games back in the day, but the app store crunched them.

emr , 9 months ago

If students hide their phones instead of being distracted by them, isn’t that mission accomplished?

emr , 10 months ago

Desktop search is notoriously hard. For all nontrivial searching tasks on Mac and Linux I use fzf for filenames and ack for full text search.

emr , 10 months ago

I personally like FastAPI (python.)

emr , 10 months ago

x86box, Flashpoint Archive, Ruffle, and other tools to sustain the usefulness of the golden age of computing well into the future.

emr , 10 months ago

Lubuntu my beloved. Ubuntu enough for me to google myself out of anything but lightweight enough to make me feel good about what I’m spending cycles/battery on… and familiar enough that I don’t need to learn a whole new desktop paradigm when all I’m gonna do with the desktop gui is start an app anyway.

emr , 10 months ago

Came here to post Tech Won’t Save Us.

emr , 10 months ago

He's not wrong to call Mastodon users weirdos I suppose, but I wanted to talk to fellow weirdos anyway so it serves my purposes well.

emr , 10 months ago

Have they given a reason? The blog post doesn't list one.

emr , 10 months ago

My setup is a raspberry pi with a large external hard drive running smbd, and it works fine.

emr , 10 months ago

I think it's a base model 3, no gobs of memory. I don't use it for anything especially taxing, just file storage and occasionally streaming music or low-resolution video. The bottleneck is the slow WD Archive hard drive.

emr , 10 months ago

x280

emr , 9 months ago

For the tower defense enthusiast.