I built a computer in 2012 with the idea of having 3 OSes to boot from: Windows 7, Mac OS 10.7 (hackintosh), and CentOS.

I partition the drive into three main parts, and install each OS on one each. Except that I had to do it again, because Windows 7 lost its absolute shit that it wasn’t on the first partition. Just threw an absolute shit-fit that it didn’t come first.

So I re-do the installations, let Windows be first in the partition order, Mac OS second, CentOS third. The next problem was that I couldn’t download any drivers on Windows, because it couldn’t recognize the absolutely bog-standard network controller on my motherboard. So I boot into Mac OS X, which (with a couple of quick kext edits) already recognized all of the hardware on the mobo despite none of it being Apple or Apple related, download the drivers for windows, throw them on a FAT partition I set up to exchange data between the OSes, and finally get Windows running in about 4x the time it took to get Mac OS running on the exact same built-for-windows hardware I’d cobbled together.

And of course I fire up CentOS, and it was pretty much, “I got this” right off the bat.

I’ve been using Windows and Mac OS since the late 80s, and linux since about 1999, and I still have never encountered a more fussy OS than Windows.

Buddhism is a looter-shooter confirmed

For AI, it’s because they’re the cheapest way to hook up tons of memory to a GPU.

Nice fronthawk

From YZY Prints:

Lol, tell me about it.

And the serial dongle sounds much more sensible than requiring what amounted to a SCSI terminator, of which you could typically only have one. Need to use other software with a SCSI dongle? Shut down your machine, swap them out, and start it up again, 'cause SCSI don’t like that hot swapping.

I remember it as far back as the 90’s. Usually referred to things like SCSI dongles that authorized the use of expensive software like Maya (which was ~$50k at the time), because online DRM activation wasn’t really a thing yet. Probably goes back further than that.

Goop loop

It’s the new game: AI, or late 00s overzealous image sharpening?

What’s wonderful is that isn’t even a chainmail shirt. It’s loose-knit sweater vest. I’m not sure if they were hoping no one would notice, or if most of us watched it on 480p VHS.

I like to think that his grandma knitted it for him.