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The desktop reminds me of TinyCore Linux, although bigger by 15-20 MB.

Fun fact: It was developed by Robert Shingledecker, who was previously the lead developer of Damn Small Linux.

Then again, "infinitely" might not even be necessary (got carried away there).

Maybe our full universe fits predictably in some pre-allocated space of such an advanced machine/project and 1 million years on our part is a days worth of disk space on their side. An then there are retention periods too...

Regarding the "substitute for God" part... good point, but what if we really come up ourselves with such simulations? It doesn't mean we are gods (literally), it doesn't even mean we are ourselves in a simulation. Just that we found clever ways to simulate the process into replicating something that we judge as correct (ironically). Like a game nowadays but a trillion times more complex. Looking at how much AI improved recently, what is to say that 100 years from now we cannot simulate this and then cheat our future with data extracted from other civilizations, rinse and repeat, to evolve exponentially.

> gratuitously large

That's very relative. That never stopped us either when overcompensating with hardware. Now imagine some very advanced quantum computer (or something 10 generations after it) that can scale infinitely after you just run the big_bang.sh. Who knows, they maybe even make it more scalable an stable as it progresses, by some self-scaling optimizations, which always play catch-up with chaos.

You would still need some giant factory sized next-gen quantum computer but maybe that's just worth their budget, after extracting discoveries from civilization x or y.

I think the hardest part, if this ever happens, is to fast-forward just enough an cherry pick from gazillions of civilizations, all while hoping that they to not evolve quick enough to escape your quantum VM. This and maybe the part with shutting it down and becoming a destroyer of worlds.

Isn't this like saying "not your house, not your possessions" ? But landlords cannot just take or misplace my stuff, especially if I pay rent and have some rights.

And after Windows XP becomes an option, we can run it from within the Windows 98 Browser, possibly creating a black hole!

Possibly, at least with containers (mine is using containers almost entirely). Cannot say much for other use cases but the package manager in CL always seemed a little scarcer.

Multiple redditors also confirmed 32GB memory working with N100: https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/13npvng/what_is_the_...

Same goes for Intel's Clear Linux [1] (review [2]), which runs 24/7 on my ASRock J4105-ITX since late 2018. Still looking into upgrading to an N100 ASRock N100DC-ITX [3] or Asus Prime N100I-D D4 [4].

[1] https://www.clearlinux.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYffFkbO14A

[3] https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/N100DC-ITX/

[4] https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/pr...

> irrelevance in exile, just look at what happened with Kasparov's popularity inside Russia

Then again, Kasparov undermines Russia more efficiently while in exile than Navalny while inside (a prison no less). And Navalvy social media statements in exile might have been even more undermining Kasparov's.

Of course, undermining Russia with words might not help at all anyway...

> There's even a mini-ITX one for some reason

So that you cat fit 2 motherboards in that 2 CPU setup! a.k.a. redundant motherboards. /s

Very interesting! Reminds me of uClinux for the PSP [1]

Offtopic regarding the PSP version mentioned above: while doing some quick research right now (remembering that my PSP still works, as tested a couple of weeks ago), I sh*t you not, google gave me my own post from 2010. Right in the nostalgia.

[1] https://psplinux.info/tag/uclinux/

[2] https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=25416

My compromise between pre-built Thin Clients and SBC's was building my own Mini ITX PC. The 17x17cm form factor has just enough connectivity for the size, even PCIe.

The 2018 build came in at ~250$: Asrock J4105-ITX [1] + mini ITX case (with pico power supply included) + 2x4GB DDR4 + 128GB SSD. Runs ClearLinux and works perfectly 5 years later.

The 2024 Mini ITX build will probably feature an Intel N100, like the Asus Prime N100I-D D4-CSM [2] at around 120$ for the board itself, but I'm still looking into options.

[1] https://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J4105-ITX/

[2] https://www.asus.com/motherboards-components/motherboards/cs...

Then again, he did not like Bitcoin that much:

> I haven't analyzed BitCoin, but the impression of multiple digital cash experts I've talked to is that it's bunk. [1]

> I'd be more optimistic about BitCoin if I had the impression that they were acting on lessons learned from prior attempts. [2]

> Wow; there exists a Tor+bitcoin illegal drug marketplace, appropriately called Silk Road. [3]

> Ugh, another stupid article claiming "anonymity is inherent in Bitcoin." [4]

> This big Bitcoin heist shows Bitcoin suffers from the worst of both worlds: no strong anonymity, yet no fraud reversal protection. [5]

[1] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/12213554224562176

[2] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/56487900136734720

[3] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/69301492342980608

[4] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/81431725510635521

[5] https://nitter.net/lensassaman/status/81084436518674433

Source site seems to be down. Windows Central has some clarifications:

> Now, references to a subscription model were found in the latest Windows preview builds, suggesting that Microsoft is finally going to force users to pay a monthly subscription to use Windows, right? No. These references are almost definitely tied to the newly discovered "IoT Enterprise Subscription" edition of Windows 11, not the client version of Windows vNext.

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/no-o...

Sadly, TinyCore [1] is hardly mentioned anymore when tiny distros are discussed, although still in development [2]. Maybe it's still just for a small niche of users, even after 15 years, but you can start with only 17MB's and add only the desired extensions [3].

[1] http://tinycorelinux.net/

[2] http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,26201.0.html

[3] http://tinycorelinux.net/14.x/x86/tcz/

(not sure what their beef is with https...)

I do miss the times when their microcore was around 6-8MB's

If you go to https://www.ibm.com/plex/gallery/ and scroll down to "Plex will be mega-international.", you can replace that text with your own, for testing. But I agree that it's ridiculously overengineered and it took way too much time to find this.

Fun fact: in the save video, you can see Neviksti's photographs of the die from 2003 (https://youtu.be/64FgfhfvJ4s?t=256)

Not sure for CRT's but TFT flickering can also be edited out afterwards, as seen here after ~22:40: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivrlU73VcHw&t=1359s

Sounds like a job for archive.org

Let them talk to each other, to battle out who is the best.

shadows also help in identifying the real person.

He did "put the profits to good use", donating $5.7 billion of Tesla shares to charity in 2021: https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/elon-musks-philanthro...

After the Twitter poll for offloading 10% of his stake.

> billions and billions of stars contained within. I don't know, but you feel stuff under those circumstances.

Obligatory link to Gigapixels of Andromeda[1]. There are other Gigapixels of Andromeda videos out there but this one also has the perfect background music.

Crazy how "billions and billions" might be an understatement, looking at how many stars appear after the 2min mark alone. And Andromeda is not even a huge galaxy[2].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_galaxies

Or /r/UkrainianConflict, since 2014

At least you've cost MS more money through four experts than them giving you the game back directly. So there's that, I guess.

Now I wonder if fixing such edge cases would be more expensive for them than making users go through these "experts" again and again...

Explaining the Throttle option to my german colleagues is sometimes awkwardly funny (in german trottel = stupid)

There's also a 100% dissasembly of Super Metroid by Vitor Vilela: https://www.patreon.com/posts/super-metroid-is-58981617

(not sure if it's related to the github decompile, this being a disassembly)

Vitor states that now "a SA-1 Pack for Super Metroid is 100% viable, it's now only a matter of time and effort."

Speaking of SA-1, another great post from him: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sa-1-demo-has-50834480

multitrillion*

I have a decent gaming PC but still got the PS3, PS4 afterwards and now the PS5 for their portability. We have gaming / couch co-op nights of 4 and play Fifa or split-screen games.

The PS3 even supported 7 controllers and is still used for some Bomberman Ultra. The PS4 and PS5 sadly max out at 4...

And these are still half the size and weight of my PC. Of course there are mini-itx gaming rigs out there but those cost as much or more than all my consoles and controllers together.

For about 2 years my mother got my Mario Paint creations as gifts for her birthday and Mother's Day. She loved them each time (while a little subjective). Still mentions them to this day.

So much creative fun inside one game.

There was also the Super Gameboy adapter which had some creative parts to it, probably inspired by Mario Paint. Especially the custom border creation one: https://youtu.be/6ArYj4-Ajs4?t=1186. All while having the GameBoy game in the background! The other borders were also awesome. The one with the day&night cycle was very relaxing. The one in the cinema was funny (zZzZz) while the one with the crayons was quite captivating.