#computing

[discopaws]

An excerpt from a Coneytrol Data Corporation pamphlet

[digitalismmm]

Ribs

[gameraboy2]

1981 TRS-80 Model III ad

[littlefleamart]

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[azspot]

Don't let Chrome's big redesign distract you from the fact that Chrome's invasive new ad platform, ridiculously branded the "Privacy Sandbox," is also getting a widespread rollout in Chrome today. If you haven't been following this, this feature will track the web pages you visit and generate a list of advertising topics that it will share with web pages whenever they ask, and it's built directly into the Chrome browser. It's been in the news previously as "FLoC" and then the "Topics API," and despite widespread opposition from just about every non-advertiser in the world, Google owns Chrome and is one of the world's biggest advertising companies, so this is being railroaded into the production builds.

Use Firefox.

[mlembug]

Firefox started crashing very frequently on my laptop from 2016 and finally discovered why: RAM is broken

too bad, this is one of those "portable" laptops and has the RAM soldered in so I can't replace it

thankfully Linux comes in to the rescue - using memtest86+ I got info on which memory areas are broken and used this information to tell Linux to not use that memory (the "badram" kernel parameter).

I also added the "memtest" kernel parameter so when the computer is turned on it will do a test on its own and mark the RAM areas which are broken and avoid using these. This is to detect potential increase of damaged areas.

Hopefully this will prolong the lifetime of this laptop by at least a year or so.

[coffin-spider]

The gremlins in my mind want to own a lil mini computer like this as if I we're some strange sci-fi novel character. To you beautiful humans who make stuff like this and know how to use raspberry pies, I love you. My fantasy to be a cyberpunk/lainecore/space girl is fuled by your mastery of this lil goobers

[retropopcult]

UNIVAC 9300 computer system, 1966

[scipunk]

Alien (1979)

[secondwheel]

The excitement of going to the ICT suite in school

[warakami-vaporwave]

Super Cassette - Videowaves

[discopaws]

Little thing from an arc where Agent Caspar infiltrates a research lab and works undercover as a mainframe operator :>

[digitalismmm]

Change of scenery

[atheostic]

[littlefleamart]

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