leisesprecher

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[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Doesn't work, unfortunately. It seems to be a 16bit app.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No, it's pretty obscure, I barely managed to find it at all.

 

I'm trying to get an old Windows game running for a friend.

It seems to be a 16bit macromedia app and I kind of got it running in a Win 98 VM using Virtualbox. DOSBox seems to get confused by it being a Windows app.

Thing is, the friend is very much not good with tech and I want to set everything up for him to "just work". Installing VBox might be a bit too much.

Apparently, you can install Windows inside DOSBox, but is that really stable and usable for layman? Are there any other approaches?

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 50 points 3 days ago

I use Karch, btw.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 10 points 4 days ago (6 children)

We could start by not requiring new chips every few years.

For 90% of the users, there hasn't been any actual gain within the last 5-10 years. Older computers work perfectly fine, but artificial slow downs and bad software cause laptops to feel sluggish for most users.

Phones haven't really advanced either. But apps and OSes are too bloated, hardware impossible to repair, so a new phone it is.

Every device nowadays needs wifi and AI for some reason, so of course a new dishwasher has more computing power than an early Cray, even though nothing of that is ever used.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago

Usually ~/devel/

On my work laptop I have separate subdirs for each project and basically try to mirror the Gitlab group/project structure because some fucktards like to split every project into 20 repos.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago

Ansible is actually pretty nice, if you get the hang of it. Not perfect, but better than triple tunnel ssh.

You could simply automate step by step, each time you change something, you add that to the playbook and over time you should end up with a good setup.

Flakey dev setups are productivity killers.

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The real question is why you're torturing yourself by manually fixing that stuff? Don't you terraform your Ansibles?

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 16 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Admittedly, I only ever entered an operating room under anesthesia, but could you just, you know, put the displays somewhere else?

This seems like one of those informercial "problems".

[–] leisesprecher@feddit.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Aber wenn Muhammad Deutsch lernt, hat er ja vielleicht Erfolg in der Schule und wird gar kein krimineller Terrorist! Das kann doch niemand wollen.

 

I have a small homelab running a few services, some written by myself for small tasks - so the load is basically just me a few times a day.

Now, I'm a Java developer during the day, so I'm relatively productive with it and used some of these apps as learning opportunities (balls to my own wall overengineering to try out a new framework or something).

Problem is, each app uses something like 200mb of memory while doing next to nothing. That seems excessive. Native images dropped that to ~70mb, but that needs a bunch of resources to build.

So my question is, what is you go-to for such cases?

My current candidates are Python/FastAPI, Rust and Elixir, but I'm open for anything at this point - even if it's just for learning new languages.

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