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    Discuss AI Here

    It costs eye-watering amounts of money to run (and to be clear, it is currently heavily subsidized by a couple major corporations who are desperate to make it A Thing, and they aren't charging anything like what it costs, let alone turning a profit on it,) hallucinates constantly (often in ways...
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    Discuss AI Here

    It's Dissociated Press on umpty-kilowatt turbo mode, 'nuff said. It understands nothing and never will.
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    Original Final Fantasy VIII for PC

    The Playstation had a MIPS R3k CPU running at 33 MHz, which had considerably more horsepower than a similarly-clocked 486, and a matrix-math coprocessor and dedicated GPU on top of that. A Pentium II system should still beat it out, but not as handily as all that - plus, PC ports of Playstation...
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    Harris RTX2000 Stack CPU Development Project

    Oh, neat! Always found these things intriguing.
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    VC Restmod?

    (P4m excepted. I still remember the crappy HP laptop that was my daily driver from '04-'09; that thing ran friggin' hot, and eventually melted its own power plug. Lucky it didn't actually catch fire on me.)
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    What's Your Daily Driver?

    I enjoy a pretty broad variety of games, but they're such a time-sink and I have other hobbies I want to commit to more, so these days it's mostly just the massive pile of excellent Quake WADs out there, which run totally fine on any moderately-specced *nix PC, plus the occasional foray into RenPy.
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    What's Your Daily Driver?

    Been running Devuan on various middling Thinkpads since 2016. Not a *nix partisan, I just realized with the Win10 rollout that MS was just never going to stop screwing around with my workflow for no good reason...
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    Anybody still using spinning hard disks on their newer machines?

    I have a soft-RAID setup with spinning rust for my home media server, SSDs in my other current PCs.
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    AI - What might people like us use it for?

    (How many does it get wrong? And how reliably will you know, without just checking against the contents of the bookshelf yourself, as you could've done from the start?)
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    Flash and browsers

    Unfortunately, the direct link doesn't seem to work :/
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    Best birthday cake ever

    The silkscreening could be a little clearer, how else are we supposed to match against the schematics?
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    The MIDI/80 Project - A MIDI Sound & Interface Card for the Model 1

    Fun stuff! I miss this era of home recording/"computer music," when it was more centered around computer control of dedicated synthesizer hardware than doing everything "in the box" with softsynths. That has its merits (it's certainly cheaper!) but there's a certain character to a lot of the...
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    small 68000 SBC

    Very nifty!
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    What kind of binary executable file format did the Apple Lisa use?

    Well, GS/OS specifically draws heavily on classic MacOS, and in fact uses the same filesystem (HFS,) which includes the capability for files to have a "resource fork" in addition to a "data fork;" IIRC executable segments are treated as just a type of resource. (folklore.org indicates that the...
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    What kind of binary executable file format did the Apple Lisa use?

    Curious about this myself, but I doubt there was much similarity to MacOS on the backend; aside from the shared PARC heritage they were very much rival projects within Apple, and I don't think there was a lot of sharing of notes going on.
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    VC Restmod?

    Why desecrate a classic, when you can go full oldschool homebrew and kludge together a case out of sheet metal and plywood from scratch!?
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    AI - What might people like us use it for?

    I used to think that hands were created by God as a prank on artists, but maybe they were actually intended as a pre-emptive defense against Skynet infiltrator models...
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    AI - What might people like us use it for?

    It's absolutely a factor; people have already dubbed it "Habsburg AI."
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