DosAmp
@dosamp.net
Retro & other cursed computing. Also sometimes old games. I'm trying to balance my activity here & on Mastodon.
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You can take your pick which kind of public cloud provider it is this time.
November 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
You can take your pick which kind of public cloud provider it is this time.
Insurance for the car you stole and maybe modded a bit before some guy blows it up around the next corner.
In the land of fantasy capitalism, you do get an exact copy of your car immediately and not just the insured sum, also it’s a one-time payment and only your garages are recurring costs.
In the land of fantasy capitalism, you do get an exact copy of your car immediately and not just the insured sum, also it’s a one-time payment and only your garages are recurring costs.
September 25, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Insurance for the car you stole and maybe modded a bit before some guy blows it up around the next corner.
In the land of fantasy capitalism, you do get an exact copy of your car immediately and not just the insured sum, also it’s a one-time payment and only your garages are recurring costs.
In the land of fantasy capitalism, you do get an exact copy of your car immediately and not just the insured sum, also it’s a one-time payment and only your garages are recurring costs.
To be fair I expected "how to play VoxeLibre (formerly known as MineClone2) on Luanti (formerly known as Minetest)", but that works too.
September 19, 2025 at 12:31 PM
To be fair I expected "how to play VoxeLibre (formerly known as MineClone2) on Luanti (formerly known as Minetest)", but that works too.
True vibe coding is letting a chatbot generate all the code and then complaining to it until it seems to work, but nothing keeps you from augmenting it with natural stupidity.
August 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
True vibe coding is letting a chatbot generate all the code and then complaining to it until it seems to work, but nothing keeps you from augmenting it with natural stupidity.
Linux drm-panic wins in cuteness slightly ahead of Windows 8 and 10, classic Windows NT wins in most details crammed into one screen, Windows 9x wins in most iconic.
August 10, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Linux drm-panic wins in cuteness slightly ahead of Windows 8 and 10, classic Windows NT wins in most details crammed into one screen, Windows 9x wins in most iconic.
It can't be UTF-8 because continuation bytes (0x80..0xBF) always come after start bytes (0xC0..0xF7), so even for a substring at least the ASCII space is out of place, and it can't be UTF-16 (apart from the first WinTouhous still running on Windows 98) because it's an odd number of bytes.
August 6, 2025 at 11:30 AM
It can't be UTF-8 because continuation bytes (0x80..0xBF) always come after start bytes (0xC0..0xF7), so even for a substring at least the ASCII space is out of place, and it can't be UTF-16 (apart from the first WinTouhous still running on Windows 98) because it's an odd number of bytes.
It's 冴月 麟 in Shift-JIS, the same way it appears in the binary.
August 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
It's 冴月 麟 in Shift-JIS, the same way it appears in the binary.
Keychron Q6 Drinkable Yogurt Edition
July 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Keychron Q6 Drinkable Yogurt Edition
Games are underway and it's effectively a Switch Pro for the back catalog of Switch games, but the biggest turnoff for me are all the new anti-consumer practices implemented in respect to games and accessories.
Right now the Switch OLED or Switch refresh are a better option.
Right now the Switch OLED or Switch refresh are a better option.
July 28, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Games are underway and it's effectively a Switch Pro for the back catalog of Switch games, but the biggest turnoff for me are all the new anti-consumer practices implemented in respect to games and accessories.
Right now the Switch OLED or Switch refresh are a better option.
Right now the Switch OLED or Switch refresh are a better option.
While I was expected to read the contract on my own when I bought my apartment, I had a notary go through every sentence and explain it to me.
June 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
While I was expected to read the contract on my own when I bought my apartment, I had a notary go through every sentence and explain it to me.
I assume rentals and the later Shindou Edition sold in Japan.
June 12, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I assume rentals and the later Shindou Edition sold in Japan.
I can understand. That file would still break if I tried to send it using Rocket.Chat.
June 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I can understand. That file would still break if I tried to send it using Rocket.Chat.
Also in compatibility mode after NVMe drives stopped having option ROMs to facilitate INT 13h support, so somewhere around a decade later when the Samsung 950 Pro stopped being a choice for that.
I’m not sure current GPUs have fully featured VGA BIOSes, either.
I’m not sure current GPUs have fully featured VGA BIOSes, either.
May 31, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Also in compatibility mode after NVMe drives stopped having option ROMs to facilitate INT 13h support, so somewhere around a decade later when the Samsung 950 Pro stopped being a choice for that.
I’m not sure current GPUs have fully featured VGA BIOSes, either.
I’m not sure current GPUs have fully featured VGA BIOSes, either.
That character is entered using Alt+214, which seems very feasible by sitting on the right key and bapping the numpad.
May 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
That character is entered using Alt+214, which seems very feasible by sitting on the right key and bapping the numpad.
What do you mean Windows uses Wasabi instead?
May 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
What do you mean Windows uses Wasabi instead?
Meanwhile the ad in PC Mag 1988-04-26, pg. 278: It's all a diss about how you can make a 1-2-3 clone cheaper by not giving it a flowery name like "Lotus".
May 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Meanwhile the ad in PC Mag 1988-04-26, pg. 278: It's all a diss about how you can make a 1-2-3 clone cheaper by not giving it a flowery name like "Lotus".
Can't wait for the setup and video games to take a whole week of streaming before they're settled in again.
April 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Can't wait for the setup and video games to take a whole week of streaming before they're settled in again.
Actually found some bangers just by flipping to random pages of the internet phonebook.
nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Ap...
nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Ap...
News - The Phone Book of the Internet
A handy booklet with the domain names and IP addresses you need, to keep everything working even when the DNS doesn't.
nlnetlabs.nl
April 13, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Actually found some bangers just by flipping to random pages of the internet phonebook.
nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Ap...
nlnetlabs.nl/news/2025/Ap...