Duncan Mac-Vicar P.
duncan.mac-vicar.eu
Duncan Mac-Vicar P.
@duncan.mac-vicar.eu
Fender released something for Linux!. This is the year of the Linux desktop.
May 29, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Very clever from @anthropic.com to add this to the commit log, but it would be more fair that they also add dollars burned in the feature.
May 10, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Got BIOS VGA signal from the motherboard external VGA port, which means I can test replacing the DALLAS DS1287 RTC without assembling the laptop.

#retrocomputing
February 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
That VGA port looks suspicious 🧐

#retrocomputing
February 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It never ceases to amaze me how bad is Amazon search.

I wonder the impact it has in people buying the wrong stuff.
February 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
and this is the chip I need to desolder and replace

#retrocomputing
February 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This laptop motherboard was designed to work either with a 286 or 386sx.

#retrocomputing
February 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
uhm, but the web version of deepseek is the 671b version I think.
January 30, 2025 at 9:44 PM
what is this Firefox Android bullshit. 7% battery for 3 min screen.
January 23, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This happens all the time. Who are these people and why can they paralyze the network at the costs of millions?
January 22, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Last minute scare. Broke the clock battery holder and had to solder the one from the other unit.
December 15, 2024 at 5:06 PM
Contura Aero repaired and ready to take the good bezels from another unit.

Undecided whether to swap the HDD with a SD card with IDE adapter.
December 15, 2024 at 4:27 PM
Been running a 2-cpu/12G free tier ARM server on Oracle for a year on free tier.

Destroyed it while trying to get rid of nonsense Ubuntu and get Debian on.

Learned the hard way that I will probably never be able to recreate it.
December 13, 2024 at 7:47 PM
This is a real UI of a product sold in 🇩🇪

Hardware is quite good though (probably unmatched), and it supports operation off-cloud.
December 3, 2024 at 9:34 PM
this is what I have left. The right three ones are the old good ones. Left are a bit thinner.

If it helps I will be in Vienna in two weeks, our office is close (20m) from Sentry.
December 1, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Looks like they figured out there is no point in regulating what does not exist.
November 23, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Jaguar merged with Benetton 😆
November 23, 2024 at 12:32 AM