Oh thank goodness, I can finally install JMP on my computer. It has been awful having to put all my instructions sequentially.

@thomasfuchs
I have a feeling I would really enjoy vivaldi. I was a huge Opera 12 fan which it is a continuation of.

I'm just not a huge fan of relying on google for the blink engine.

@jenny753 @Waterfox
https://dialup.space/@TechTangents/116024872990963567

From Chrome land Vivaldi seems the best poised but says this:

We will not use an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/keep-exploring/

I see this as a battle on two fronts, against AI, and against google owning the internet which I am personally more concerned about. Without firefox, I don't think the gecko engine can survive. And then google controls it all.

I'm not thrilled about mozilla pouring money into AI stuff, but if I can disable it completely I might accept that as a compromise to not use a chrome based browser.

Neither of these are a line in the sand that says "We will not use AI/LLMs". It's "we won't use them, yet". "Perfect is the enemy of good" cuts both ways. The alt-browsers might be more acceptable for now, but firefox has at least added the AI kill switch.

And from the Firefox side from Waterfox seems to be the goto but says:

Waterfox will not include LLMs. Full stop. At least and most definitely not in their current form

https://www.waterfox.com/blog/no-ai-here-response-to-mozilla/

I have as much interest in "browser hopping" as I do linux "distro hopping". But I have a feeling the writing is on the wall for firefox with them integrating AI nonsense.

I'm also not crazy about alt-browser options though.

@HardlyWorgen
In your case just use EXT4 and you'll be fine.

BTFRS/ZFS is only for doing weird things or array's of HDDs.

I've been a bit of a proponent of BTRFS because I liked it being linux native and more open. But if the person responsible for it, who hasn't fixed the RAID write hole issues in over a decade, is now turning to AI for code reviews...I'm definitely going to be looking at ZFS now.

Yes google, I totally wanted to convert 1/32 In to Miles.

I can't wait for the AI bubble to burst in
1.0e-9 eons.

Apparently it's a bad idea to store a disc in a drive for a decade+. I got a drive recently that wouldn't open, even with the manual eject lever. After tearing it apart I found a disc inside. The disc had bonded to the rubber pad of the drive motor hub and peeled it apart when I removed the disc. So the drive is now basically dead.

This is more annoying than anything for a PC because you can replace the drive, but this would kill a game console.

@foone
I had to slow my roll on this until I had a better long term storage plan for it. They are HUGE when ripped this way. I can't bring myself to delete the LDS files when I'm done though...

@hellomiakoda @crowgirl @shenquan
ndiswrapper were dark days indeed. Useful and impressive, but very painful

I was asked by a family member why it was taking so long to paste something large into a new Microsoft Word document on their computer, I sarcastically replied it was because it takes a while to upload it all to the copilot AI nonense first. And then I realized accidentally I might be right...I disabled copilot in Word and it went back to being instant again

So that's cool that Microsoft seems uploading everything you paste into a new Word doc to their servers now.

@thomasfuchs
I can't really disagree, my gateway into vintage computing was Win9X gaming but I've definitely spent more time exploring earlier parts of it now.

It's hard to beat the machines that you can fully understand the hardware in but also try wild and crazy stuff because x86+Microsoft hadn't engulfed the industry yet.

My 1981 HP Series 200 where HP uses HP-IB to connect all the peripherals is wonderful and would not happen 3 years later.

@thomasfuchs
I'm pretty sure they had to give up on the spider stand because the machine is vertically upgradable. Mine has the genlock module in between the floppy drives and computer.

The SMC-70 was also stuck in "Development Hell" for nearly two years as Sony was dragging their feet on actually entering the computer market after designing the Series 35 word processor. So I could see there having been all sorts of prototype stuff that never made it to market.

@thomasfuchs
I've been trying to find the monitor to go with my SMC-70 and have been looking into it for a while. I don't think they actually produced the spider stand.

Ads show a tilt stand more like the Sony KV-4000. You can also see it in V ( https://starringthecomputer.com/appearance.php?f=46&c=53 ).

It's shown by itself in this exploded parts display in the upper right.

@chloeraccoon @funtycunk
I reviewed a product specifically for that here that ended up working out pretty well.

https://youtu.be/UiNzE0voDKI

With how eroded your pads are I think you might need something like that instead of the pencil lead method.

@brundaged
If something is priced consistently with prior sales like that, I agree those are reasonable amounts to ask off. But for this item the $80 is unreasonable and I'm not offering anywhere close to it.

I appreciate the sentiment. I am very ideological about this though, even if I could justify buying something like this as a business purchase where I would make more back with a video, I don't want to artificially raise the value of something by buying it at an above value.