amigan

Ever hear of Windows NT? Legacy DOS code was relegated to userspace long ago. And NT was designed by Dave Cutler, the guy who designed VMS and RSX-11. Most certainly not “shit piled on top of shit.” Unix could have learned a thing or two from Dave but by then it was too late; the plane had very much taken off.

The Amiga’s OS was written in 68k asm and BCPL (C’s grandfather) for the kernel, and C was used for the utilities and GUI. But this was considered quite ahead of its time for a single user micro.

Most critical sections should be.

You’re thinking of Shit Jobs, the FruitCo charlatan. Gates’ pancake sort algorithm held the speed record for 30 years.

“Who the hell” writes an OS in assembler in the 80s? Uh, some of the utilities are in C, but compilers were slow and generated slow code back then, and it was quite noticable on a slow machine. When every byte of memory counts, you often need to hand-optimize.

His last product was the OS for the Tandy model 100 in 1983.

restic is better.

Yeah, Conversations is probably the most fleshed out. Dino is missing lots of features, as is Monal for osx. Gajim is very nice, but it’s written in Python. Psi used to be my favorite 10 years ago but it’s unmaintained.

I just want something more on feature parity with all the Slack clones, but not actually Slack. Or mattermost. Or matrix. Goddamn, there are so many messaging apps

Nothing, I just never think to use it since mpv has more features for general use.

Honestly if even half of the effort that goes into every XMPP replacement du jour instead went into improving existing XMPP clients, we wouldn’t even be talking about this.

lol@typescript and appImage. Yuck. Just use mpv to find cutpoints and man ffmpeg

Cognitive overload? From IRC and mailing lists? It makes me doubt whether you’d be able to contribute anything, anyway.

git was designed to accept patches over email. How else would you do it? man git-send-email

Amazing, thank you for this! I love ffmpeg so much. If ever was an underappreciated workhorse that you’ll find enabling almost everything people do with video.

DP has HDCP too. I get what you’re saying, but there was more profiteering involved even than what you describe.

Because the cartel members want their super high res content only available with Genuine DRM Bullshit™. The gambit won’t work, of course, but they’re gonna try like hell.

Aside from DisplayPort having more bandwidth, as someone else pointed out, HDMI is consumer video garbage. DisplayPort was designed for use as a computer display. Also, HDMI Forum is a cartel that charges ridiculous licensing fees for their proprietary interface. VESA is a standards body and their licensing costs are much more reasonable.

I used to have everything backed up to a 2TB USB drive. Which I accidentally dropped down the stairs. I lost thousands of family photos and documents. That changed my backup perspective.

If it’s the only copy, it’s not a backup. It’s the master.

I am mistaken. It now uses .NET Core, but before it used to use Mono as the .NET runtime. Either way, both are pigs.

I would switch in a heartbeat if it didn’t use .NET. Plex is a giant heap of trash, but at least it doesn’t eat RAM.