I’m not your buddy, friend

The computers they were throwing away were broken, and they didn’t have a use for PC-133 RAM any more.

You shouldn’t wrap potatoes in foil when baking them. It makes them soggy and doesn’t noticeably decrease cooking time. If you want to keep them warm then wrap them in foil after cooking.

What’s the power consumption when completely idle?

Make sure C-states are enabled, so the CPU cores can switch to low-power modes.

Run powertop and check that the cores are actually entering low-power modes (although, powertop is an Intel tool, so I’m not sure how well it works for AMD).

Some systems have the CPU power limits editable in the UEFI (“BIOS”). No other tools needed.

I would have loved to have 32 MB RAM. I was stuck with a 486 with 16 MB RAM and 600ish MB HDD until 2003 or so, because we couldn’t afford to upgrade. I think I upgraded to a second-hand Pentium 3 at that point, and upgraded the RAM with mismatched RAM modules (different brands, different capacities) salvaged from systems my school was throwing away.

A simpler time. I miss it sometimes. Neither me (as a teenager) nor my parents had any money, but I did have enough free time to learn how to code and play shareware games. It gave me something to do that didn’t cost much money. Over 20 years later and I’m still coding.

Yes! All the wheels turn! It’s nice.

The post links to the original version of this. It’s the “innovation tokens” link.

EVs and solar panels have really changed things for the better.

At least this looks like it actually tried to do something.

There was similar software for Windows, called SoftRAM. Turns out it didn’t actually do anything. Their driver was just sample code from Microsoft, and the app reported fake RAM savings.

This is so cursed that I want to try it out.

I don’t understand why so many American shopping carts have back wheels that don’t turn. It’s weird. All four wheels turn on Australian shopping carts (or “trolleys” as we call them) so you have full 360 degree motion.

I’m a software developer and occasionally work on some dare/time libraries we use at work, so I’m going to add this meme to the codebase.

don’t you guys have some half hour time zone differences too?

Not only do some timezones have a 30-minute offset, but some small areas in Australia have a 45-minute offset and use UTC+08:45. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B08:45

And if the other country is in the opposite hemisphere, they’re adjusting the clock the other way. Daylight saving just started in California, but it ends next month in Victoria, Australia. The two states are either 17, 18, or 19 hours different depending on the time of year.

I used to use Dogpile a lot in the late 1990s. Coincidentally it was a similar idea to this and SearxNG - it was a meta search engine that combined Yahoo, Lycos, Excite, AltaVista and a few others into one interface (no Google since it wasn’t in widespread use yet).

There’s no tracker. Your link just says that there’s a central search and chat room server. The search just points your client to users that have files with that name. It doesn’t track anything else.

The server does not know which files you download - that’s just between you and the person you’re downloading from. You can download files directly from a user (e.g. by searching for a username then browsing their files) without relying on the central server at all.

You don’t need port forwarding for downloads, only for uploads.

Are you talking about torrents or about Soulseek? Soulseek doesn’t use DHT nor PeX.

Soulseek is a totally different protocol to torrents. It doesn’t use a tracker. Files are per-user. When you download a particular file, it only comes from one user. It’s like how Limewire and KaZaA used to work (since it’s from that same era)

How is the downloader going to ask the uploader for the file without an open port?