Bad Opinion GuyI'm still constantly baffled by just how absolutely beyond shit modern computers are
kabel42
R.L. Dane 
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16-bit/early-32-bit was my favorite era. (Basically, the #68k era ;)
Computers were just becoming capable, but not too big for their britches.
@OpenComputeDesign @rl_dane I had a good time with my first amd athlon 64 but sure, simpler times :)
I think computers were honestly better when they were limited to absolutely no more than 1GB RAM, no more than 256 colors, and no more than 1024x768 screen resolution.
1GB RAM: no LLMs
256 colors: no horrid low-contrast soupy interfaces
XGA Resolution: no horrid empty spaces and bloated interfaces
I keep wanting to make that as an OS ๐
(If only I had the skillz)
Yeah, and the pushback I get from statements like that is insane to me.
"But we don't want to go back to Windows 95."
I don't either, it was a crap OS, but the interface was better than the crap interfaces they're shipping today, so ?!?!????!?
pixxI'd rather w95 with its software suite and interface than w11 with its.
W11 is a worse OS than w95 was.
@pixx @rl_dane @OpenComputeDesign
Your mouse was moved do you want to reboot and update the cursor position?
Your mouse was moved do you want to reboot and update the cursor position?
As someone who just had to reboot twice this morning because Linux stopped recognizing the mouse, and who has an OpenBSD computer that has to be booted up with no mouse connected and connect the mouse post boot to get OpenBSD to recognize it, you're clearly still talking about modern software :P
Ethan Black@OpenComputeDesign @kabel42 @pixx @rl_dane On my Haiku Dell #D630 I have to hold down left-click on the touchpad at the correct time during boot in order for the trackpoint (the trackpoint, not the touchpad) to work.
ล tฤpรกn ๐ค@golemwire I don't know what to ask first, whether how does this happen, or how the hell did you figure out that solution 
@OpenComputeDesign @kabel42 @pixx @rl_dane
@OpenComputeDesign @kabel42 @pixx @rl_dane@stepan @golemwire @OpenComputeDesign @kabel42 @pixx
Lol, that's why I call it computer tai-chi. ;)
Because it's not only so intricate, but you have to wonder how someone would even stumble upon that kind of solution. ;)
@rl_dane @stepan @OpenComputeDesign @kabel42 @pixx OK so what happened is that my trackpoint wasn't working; when I checked the syslog, I saw something about 'ALPS header misaligned' or so.
With enough familiarity with binary data, one can guess what this means... somehow the stream gets misaligned (lots of binary streams come in repeating units with a header with a byte length; if the stream gets misaligned, it can be hard to become aligned again.) [1/2]
With enough familiarity with binary data, one can guess what this means... somehow the stream gets misaligned (lots of binary streams come in repeating units with a header with a byte length; if the stream gets misaligned, it can be hard to become aligned again.) [1/2]
@rl_dane @stepan @OpenComputeDesign @kabel42 @pixx
If you think about it, you might come to this solution. Because if you can change the data stream near the beginning, you might be able to prevent the misalignment. And if all goes well, each byte length will always be a relative pointer to the next byte length value.
Yes, it took lots of tries to find this. I can get stupidly determined; it pays off sometimes :)
Would you like to know what else I have to do to keep it running correct? ๐
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