Right now there's a lot of German-language posts that are interesting for a larger audience, but no, Mastodon doesn't allow me to translate these or add context to them and share with my followers.
I feel like this is social network kindergarten.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please do not reply with suggestions of other software I should use.
I deleted my toot about Broadcom abandoning VMware ESXi last month as I got fed up of reply guys explaining to me it couldn’t possibly happen.. but anyway, it has happened. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2107518?lang=en_US
@GossiTheDog I don't really care about ESXi (moved away from it around the time v7 became available), but I really hope somebody competent gets Workstation, because it's still much more user-friendly than the competition.
ugh. I still need that retro-search engine. I'm trying to look up how to set up a windows service, and I google it hoping the result will be somewhat applicable for NT4
@foone srvany is the classic way to run any random executable as a service. I've been using NSSM instead, but it requires at least Windows 2000, so not really useful for you. IIRC there were a few other similar programs, but I never looked into any of them after finding NSSM.
@jerry One of the largest ISPs in Slovenia's had an outage today (everything went down – internet, phones, TV, mobile network) – started around 11:45 local time, and as of right now (13:45) it's still only partially working.
I think for my next programming project I'm going to obey the letter of the GPL.
yes, it'll be open source, but if you want the source you're gonna need to send me a letter asking for the source, and I'll send it back on some floppies
@panegyr@boxy If VBE isn't present (or somehow fails to work), Windows will fallback to standard VGA 640x480x4BPP mode. Windows 8 and newer don't support palleted modes at all, so 16-colour mode is set to grey shades, which lets it sidestep the problem.
@thomasfuchs My friend had something similar – a 286 inside a thick keyboard, with a 3,5″ floppy on the side (though IIRC, his was only as wide as a regular keyboard, and the floppy drive was under the numpad with slot on the right side).
@gsuberland A few months ago I was cloning an old whitebox computer to a Dell Optiplex 7010 mini-PC. The old computer had a 250 GB Crucial MX200 SATA SSD, the new one a 512 GB NVMe drive (don't remember what make). Started up fast enough (around 150 MB/s, I was piping ntfsclone through lz4 and over the network), but write speed slowed down to 20 MB/s after a few minutes and stayed there until the end.
Mastodon is geekier than Bluesky-- someone here tell me how the holy shit you're supposed to buy a 13" or 14" laptop with a 2 TB SSD? For some reason, even though 2 TB SSDs only cost about $130 retail, this product DOES. NOT. EXIST.
Don't bother recommending the Dell XPS 13 PLUS because it doesn't actually exist. Dell's store just lies about it existing.
@StartpageSearch I'm having problems accessing www.startpage.com today from my ISP (www.t-2.net), from multiple locations (browser reports connection timeout); connection works from a different ISP in the country. Any idea what's up?