[-] praetor 12 points 7 months ago

Not at all wrong. I hate to use this word because it denigrates our wonderful lady friends (both bio and of choice), but cops are pussies. Like the ultimate ones. "look at me! I'm a badass cop gonna violate your rights! Back the Blue!" Let's see what my lawyer has to say about your "badassery". I thought so, bitch. Here's a coupon code for Dunkin. Go away.

[-] praetor 2 points 7 months ago

Ooo. Who is your employer? I LOVE rugged laptops..so FAFO. And that is nice looking!

[-] praetor 8 points 7 months ago

Yes and no. It depends on what your aim is. I LOVE Nix and it runs like a beast on my ZBook. But I'm after reproducible environments I can just blast around on all over the place without a heavy imagining solution. Works great for that.

Does it take some time to setup as a daily driver? Yes. But no more than Arch. But the thing with Nix is if you already have a robust config, it takes less time than Arch to go from zero to stomping out code.

Ubuntu is a great generic distro. But I find Nix gives me oomph. As with everything in this ecosphere...use what works for YOU! 😁

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submitted 1 year ago by praetor to c/retrocomputing

Howdy! To celebrate the Old Computer Challenge 2023 and to help people stay connected to Mastodon on their retro machines, I've put up an instance of the wonderful, sparse Mastodon client Brutaldon. It's available both via HTTP and HTTPS on any reasonably good browser with basic CSS support (ie; netsurf, older firefox, mozilla). Netscape support is forthcoming.

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submitted 1 year ago by praetor to c/retronet

In celebration of the Old Computer Challenge 2023 and to help people get on the fediverse on their retro computers, I have setup a Brutaldon instance :D Brutaldon is a wonderful Mastadon client that is sparse and viewable using any older browser that supports CSS (ie; netsurf, older firefox). HTTP and HTTPS is available as well. Works well on my SGI Octane2 as you can see, but it should work on any platform with a decent browser. Netscape support forthcoming.

[-] praetor 2 points 1 year ago

WAIS is long gone. There are no more servers running having been ran primarily by the now defunct Thinking Machines (they made those big beautiful super computers with all the red lights like in Jurassic Park). There is an open implementation called OpenWAIS, but I can't remember if it includes a WAIS server.

[-] praetor 3 points 1 year ago

Well, git 'em fixed!

[-] praetor 5 points 1 year ago

Yup. We ported netsurf to IRIX a while ago which is a nice little browser that does SSL.

[-] praetor 2 points 1 year ago

It's pretty skippy for a 20 year old machine. It's an octane 2 with a 400 Mhz processor.

[-] praetor 3 points 1 year ago

SGUG is really the place https://SGI.sh

[-] praetor 5 points 1 year ago

AHAHA. Gotta have the digital blasphemy background for the late 90s vibe!

[-] praetor 4 points 1 year ago

IRIX of course :)

[-] praetor 8 points 1 year ago

NetSurf we ported it to IRIX a while ago :D

[-] praetor 4 points 1 year ago
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My SGI Octane! (self.retrocomputing)
submitted 1 year ago by praetor to c/retrocomputing

I turned my Octane into a bad ass workstation for cruising the deep web :D

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