RetroEdge.Tech @retroedgetech@distrotoot.com

Okay I'm gonna release an install video of something other than OpenBSD for a change. I don't think I can get my viewers to share my enthusiasm for Lubuntu lol. Got a 150GB testing partition. What would you like to see? Will set release date two weeks out.

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This beauty from 2004.

Rockbox firmware, storage partition mountable from command line in any Unix based system, mkdir, cp -r, and rm -rf all function as expected, now plays almost any audio format rather than only Apples. Also functions as a rudimentary reader, formatting and rendering .txt files to the screen.

Speaking of that, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan's "The C Programming Language Vol. 2" is available in all formats on the Internet Archive...

https://archive.org/download/the_c_programming_language_2_20181213

Finally added an RSS feed to my blog / site / whatever it is.

Like, I typed one into a text editor.

Which is... probably on the weird side of doing it; it works though! (See article.)

https://simonsafar.com/2021/adding_an_rss_feed/

#100DaysToOffload, episode 37.

thanks @booligoosh & @joeligj12 for actually asking about one!

Why do computers have an option to disable CPU virtualization in the BiOS ? Is there any benefit in disabling?

RGB gaming keyboard with OpenBSD? Sure why not.

Vim is super useful! Try this?

:r!date will insert the date

Hardened wood as a renewable alternative to steel and plastic - https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(21)00465-3

My Odysee channel is up! That was fast. They only could do my most recent videos though, but that's okay.

https://odysee.com/@rootbsd:6

starting to feel comfortable in the new OBSD install.
Shaved down the functions I really used in zsh for setting up ksh. At this point, I dont miss anything from zsh, and ksh is so much faster.
Using tput to selectively colorize script output is nicer than zsh plugins. And again, _faster_.
Wrote a simple list-grid startpage for qutebrowser using flexbox css. Hit f, and you get keyhints for opening links. Though Im spending more time latley in the sacc and clic gopher browsers..

Hooray. Got a working bootstrap of the LLVM D Compiler on #OpenBSD. That's the last of the trifecta of #dlang compilers.

It only works on amd64 for now, but I know how to replicate the LDC bootstrap process for all other archs, so they can be added in the future.

Expect an email to ports@ soon.

#programming #compiler #compilers #unix #freebsd #netbsd #linux #code #coding

Considering a framework laptop as my main computer. My thinkcentre works great but not being able to use it around the house is a bit annoying. I know there are cheaper / used options but I'd really like to support a company doing good things for right to repair.

Any framework owners like to chime in on their experience so far? In particular, what have you NOT liked about it?

Boosts welcome!

this non-case by slayerx44 makes me feel some type of way

One thing caught my eye on the "Programming Language Energy Benchmark" report: https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/

Imperative languages use less energy than OO and functional languages.

It doesn't surprise me, 'cause all my life I saw that CPUs are imperative: Read memory from position X, move value read to register, add 1 to register, move value in register to memory and so on.

For other programming paradigms to use less energy, I bet the CPU instruction would have to focus on that paradigm.

Also, one could expect that a compiler could turn all those objects and monads and functors into imperative code, but I guess that's not really simple.

(Also, scripting language are, basically, a CPU emulation layer: They convert the script language into CPU "language", which is then converted in the real thing.)