Notices by André van Schoubroeck (grombeestje@mastodon.social)

@nixCraft The first was QBASIC as it came with MS-DOS. But due the lack of resources I only did simple stuff in there. I went to the local computer store. I've obtained Turbo Pascal 7 and some course material. Later I moved towards Delphi 7 as it came with a computer magazine. Then I went to college and learned C and C++.

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@nixCraft Coffee most of the time, sometimes tea.

@nixCraft Imagine starting at 32

@nixCraft ls

@nixCraft 1 MiB

@nixCraft Greetings from the Netherlands.

@nixCraft Indeed, PHP ain't a programming language, it's a scripting language.

@nixCraft I use Debian on servers and Arch on Desktops. Planning to have a look at Alpine some time in the future.

@arstechnica «This one won't work if you don't want to start your relationship with a new computer by lying to it, but it also doesn't require going to the command line.»

I'll have to lie, and click "I have read and agree with the terms and conditions" anyways.

@nixCraft been there, done that. The server in question got stuck in a reboot loop. When I contacted the hosting provider they wipes the thing.

@arstechnica The ESP32-S3-BOX-3 has been out of stock for months now.

@nixCraft This is a potential problem on Arch. I'm keeping an lts installed just in case.

@nixCraft but but but I won't understand it either a week from now.

@nixCraft It seema the laptop I am looking at is slightly different. I am looking at a A532 (YLKW)
Theirs is a AH532 (YLKV).
This laptop has a bios revision of 1.10.

Pointing out the CMOS reset is below the memory was a huge help. At least the system boots again. In stead of showing the list as in their article, the laptop boots directly into the operating system.

I suppose this is because UEFI auto recovery and a /EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI file present on the EFI partition on the hard disk.

@nixCraft I'll have to check later. I'm visiting the family. I'll have a look when I get home.

@nixCraft Thanks for sharing. I'm running into this problem as well.

@nixCraft Rust? Zig? What is this modern rubbish? Write in C!

@nixCraft Civilisation collapsing in the background, how romantic.

@nixCraft Chrome, I guess... it's the main Chromium-based browser, and Chromium-based browsers are getting a too large market share for the browsersphere to remain healthy.