@apzpins I will never doubt you again.

[Large pink....]

@apzpins I was so sure that pink jelly dong was a typo. Boy was I wrong.

Wrapstodon damning with faint praise here... :)

@lproven @stuartl I'd say that Nvidia is especially not like Enron, and OpenAI is *definitely* not like WorldCom most.

@lproven Nvidia isn't Enron YET.

@glen_malley I honestly could not believe that up until last month java applets were still officially a feature of Java.

What browser?! Nobody has nspr anymore and hasn't for a super long time! Was there a browser shipping with java just so you could have applets?

I can probably find all of […]

People's needs for PCs have really plateaued, this CPU is from 2015. Had I put in 16GB of ram and a better SSD it would have been able to do anything today except running games.

Sad how many totally fine PCs that will do 100% of what people want, are just trashed.

I wish there was something […]

Well, the Ultra 10 died while running VTS while I was having dinner and now again refuses to turn on. I'm guessing the next step would be to recap the board...

#retrocomputing #sun

Yeah, "Processor" definitely 100% okay...

Computers were a mistake

Well, good news and bad news. The power supply is solid at 3.3V, that's not it.

And VTS is generally showing no issues, memory and CPU seem to be testing fine.

So why is dtwm crashing for no apparent reason all the time... I did have a bunch of stability […]

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So now I'm putting a €40 M48T58Y in my €17,50 #sun ultra 10.

#retrocomputing is a dumb hobby sometimes.

The general consensus appears to be that the problem is almost certainly dead NVRAM batteries. Apparently having bad/unstable NVRAMs can lead to all sorts of weird and wonderful issues.

I ordered some new ones, so lets hope that that can fix it so I can still finish my #sunpci mini documentary […]