RedHat and CentOS were going the way they are now, way before the acquisition
What is the primary objection to IBM now HashiCorp, by their own volition made their products only source-available with non-competes?
HashiCorp engineers deserve their payout, and to be able to move on to other things if they want. Big Blue could even help those be internal moves; which is great!
It all started as an attempt to save space on the instance (and bandwidth, I suppose).
Since I was copying and pasting images, I didn't want to take the extra step of saving the image as a highly-compressed JPEG (which gets re-compressed as a larger file by Mastodon, anyway), so copying and pasting it into GIMP, doing the resolution and color reductions, then pasting it into mastodon was an efficient workflow.
@RL_Dane@Eggfreckles Lovely!
My last Amiga was an A4000T with the last RTG card produced (Picasso96) and a Cyberstorm CPU accelerator, maxed out in ram
You may like my latest toot ;)
I never actually had one, although my next project is to explore what life would've been like if I had received an #Amiga instead of a Mac SE at the dawn of the 1990s:
@RL_Dane@Eggfreckles I've just went to your site and it's quite interesting what you've written there
I was lucky enough to go to route of the Casio fx700p the C64 the C128 the Amiga 500 and then the jump to the Amiga 4000T
In my country my friend Andy brought us to Linux because he could not fathom how my small Amiga 500 could run Noise Tracker and smoothly be on a bulletin board system all multitasking while I could pull screens down and show both programs running simultaneously
So fascinating that your first computing device was a calculator. I remember playing with my HP48G and writing programs for it, but it wasn't my first device by a long shot.
Yes, the preemptive multitasking on the Amiga was a full decade ahead of anything else on home computers. Very impressive, even to this day, as Linux can even get bogged down at times XD
@RL_Dane I learned code crunching on the Casio FX 700p ;)
What we did was remove all, and I really mean all the spaces between the commands so that we had our full 1,024 steps, 1 kilobyte, to write our software in
The code was typed in from the Casio programming book, which also had shortened commands for the standard long basic commands
That's cool, the C64 had similar tricks in basic to make things a touch faster.
Man, MS Basic... what a train wreck. I give them props for a truly amazing floating point implementation on such a limited architecture, but the fact that it didn't tokenize things when running them (only when saving), and that all numbers were stored as strings is really frustrating. Also, variable names were limited to two characters, lol
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