INFO: What filesystem does your source drive/partition have?

Sega Master System. Bought mine used for 200 Finnish marks. Sold it to buy a karate gi.

Bought an SMS2 in 2009 and RGB-modded it. It’s been hooked up too my CRT ever since.

I spent a good few years with it. It’s been ten years since I sold it. Those games really shine on a retroid pocket with upscaling.

It’s not retro in my mind, but I’m old.

For an external display I’d bet the case is the hardware driver for the panel.

At least my 17" Powerbook G4 with a massive 2560x1440 display does it in the software display driver. I’m sure some laptop panels do it in hardware as well, but seems there’s some very janky shit going on at least with laptops that have both integrated and discrete GPUs.

My PowerBook G4 might be a bit dated, but running other resolutions than native is quite heavy on that thing. Your built-in display can handle one resolution only - anything else will require upscaling.

Your GPU can probably do that upscaling for cheap. But cheaper than rendering your desktop applications? 🤷‍♂️

You’ll have to benchmark your particular device with powertop.

IPv6 was “just around the corner” when I was studying 20+ years ago. I kept a tunnel up until the brokers shut down.

I’ve been hosting some big (partly proprietary) services for work, and we’ve been IPv6 compatible for a decade.

My ISP finally gave me native IPv6 earlier this year, which gave me the push to make sure my personal hosting does IPv6 as well. Seems like most big players services support it today. It’s nice to not have the overhead that CGNAT brings.

IPv6 got a bit of a bad reputation when operating systems defaulted to 6to4 translation but never actually managed to work.

I was dual booting windows NT4 and Slackware 3.0. A lot of my old 3.11 and 95 software didn’t work on NT4, so eventually I stopped using it.

I’ve moved on to Arch Linux, now, but the software I use to sync my palm pilot doesn’t work. It’s available in the AUR, but it won’t build.

I trained an ANN back in 2012 to trade bitcoin for me on mtgox. It performed quite a bit better than just HODLing until mtgox happened.

Now I live in a van down by the river.

The Android client seems to have dropped a few player engines in a recent update. Previously there was an option to use libvlc, omxplayer or a third option that I can’t recall. Seems the developer opted to go with the worst option.

The AndroidTV app can use external players such ss VLC. I went with kodi as a client instead.

One of the local secondary schools had a mailserver. No one knew or took security seriously in the mid-to-late nineties. As a result, it also hosted an ftp-server with widely shared credentials that held some 20GB worth of mp3s when it was shut down after three years in service. It was one of the biggest in the country at the time.

Irc and DCC-transfers were huge, too. As CD-writers became common place, a lot of it took place over snail mail or sneakernet. A guy at school had printed lists of all his tunes and took orders to burn them to music CDs.

I think the limited selection and limited transfers/storage made you cherish things more. Today you’ll never finish your library in your lifetime.

Yes, and now they’re looking for a real terminal

People keep recommending terminal emulators, but I think they’re missing your point.

I’m not aware of anyone making new terminals these days. In my opinion DIGITAL is still king. They are getting a bit hard to come by. VT220 used to be the gold standard, but a VT420 or VT520 is still worth it if you can find one.

Looks like there are a few VT420s on eBay going for up to $200. Prices aren’t what they used to be.