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...and that's why I've always hated that name

Confirmation bias, instant communication, hyper focus on Boeing mishaps, etc.

And here I felt like I was wasting money on an Intel B70 to run LLMs locally.

Syncthing

Beta it may be, but there's a good amount of software and programming language support. The 64-bit version is amazingly stable, even on the nightly version.

Resource efficiency is a huge one. If you are familiar with the Via Nano: it's a SLOW x86_64 chip (sometimes used in thin clients) that feels about half as fast as older AMD 64 cpu. Haiku feels great on a Via Nano, and it's really storage-space-efficient. Linux distros are slower, and use more storage space (especially important for using an OS on a thin client PC).

Wait...what year is it again?

I've never seen the appeal of GNOME 3+, the design seems so user-hostile to anyone who has used computers for a while: hiding menus for no reason, having super limited menu options, etc.

I'd rather use LXDE, XFCE, or KDE.

The only case where I care about an IPv6 address is for something I actually want to expose to the internet. A temporary address would be quite annoying in that case.

Some 486SX boards are even sillier: There's a soldered 486 SX, and a regular 486 socket, so you can add a socketed 486 SX to your board with a 486 SX. Obviously the point is to be able to add a regular 486 CPU, but it's still amusing.

Surely something like OPNsense/PFsense would be better for the average user than setting up all the software manually?

Pentium-compatible processors were more numerous than you think.

- AMD (K5/K6/K6-2/K6-III) - Intel (Pentium) - Centaur (IDT Winchip, later Via C3/C7/Nano) - Cyrix (6x86, 6x86MX) - Rise (mp6)

For the vast, vast majority of use cases, they are faster, yes.

Cyrix chips get too much hate because of Quake being optimized specifically for the Pentium and its FPU.

Homebrew wouldn't support Haiku anyway.

No.

And there was the same problem with early PS3s, on Nvidia's GPU package...it was a fairly widespread problem at the time.

The code style seems to be targeting some old version of PHP...but I'm absolutely sure typed properties require a newer version of PHP than existed in 2008. (If I recall correctly, that's around the days of PHP 5.4 or so)

I'm pretty sure screen-spanning was better before "fullscreen"...In Lion, I think?

Just uses make-like syntax, not yaml, which I view as a huge advantage.

There are new models that are recreating beam spring too. (Although I don't think they are in stock yet).

I'm too invested into Gentoo at this point to really consider Arch, but hey, arch-chroot does make modern Gentoo installs just a bit quicker.

And it's objectively terrible

Another assumption is that knowing how to use the tool doesn't require learning (and discipline). I tend to think that easily falling into using the crutch of AI is a significant issue itself, and that can be especially significant for people with ADHD.

Go vertical?

To fab the CPUs...seems more plausible than anything else with Intel.

I seem to remember 68k software working (on PowerPC Macs) until Classic was killed off in Leopard? I'm likely misremembering the length of time, but it seems like that was the longest backwards-compatibility streak Apple had.

I must just be weird. I prefer light themes.

I want all the colors, including "semantic highlighting", that is, each variable scope getting its own color.

I think the difference between highlighted colors, rather than the specific colors themselves, is what helps me parse code.

The majority of degree requirements are lazy gatekeeping.

Assuming you can get software support for more than one version of 'blessed' distro.

In many ways I'd argue that a popular project is worse, as you end up dealing with a bunch of social factors that take time away from actually making or improving things.