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The Miracle of the Andes – Revisited

theguardian.com
2 points·by thoughtbag·hace 3 años·1 comments

Tenebra – a neat puzzle game for the BBC Micro

bbcmicro.co.uk
2 points·by thoughtbag·hace 3 años·1 comments

Archimedes Live – run early ARM software in the browser

archi.medes.live
1 points·by thoughtbag·hace 3 años·2 comments

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thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
In 1972, Nando Parrado was travelling with family and friends when his plane went down in the mountains.
thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
"Tenebra is an atmospheric puzzle game with rogue-like aesthetics. Guide the hapless protagonist to the exit. Poor guy is afraid of darkness and refuses to walk in the dark areas."
thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
He's been right more times that I can count. Abrasive guy for sure, but he has decided not to suffer idiots. And he does what he does for himself; we are lucky beneficiaries.

Agree wrt your arguments; it's also why I write this in a browser in a VM that is not used for anything else than this sort of thing, and periodically I will roll back to a recent snap shot with a clean browser.

(I do not use Qubes, but I do like their work.)
thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
I know what Theo says about (x86) virtualization[1], but I think it's still useful to virtually separate your random browsing the web from things like health and banking, or where you keep your ssh keys (if you don't use a Yubikey or similar to keep it off your laptop) -- or other secrets.

You can be a victim of a random drive-by, you don't have to be a person on a "list".

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=119318909016582
thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
Since ycombinator failed to parse the URL correctly, here it is in all its glory; https://archi.medes.live/
thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
Archimedes Live is a project by Paul Stone which allows anyone to try out an emulated Acorn Archimedes computer in their web browser. The Archimedes, first released in 1987, was Acorn's 32-bit successor to the BBC Micro. Acorn also created the ARM2 processor at the heart of the Archimedes - the ancestor of the ARM chips that power billions of smartphones, computers and other devices around the world today.

The emulator itself is a WebAssembly port of Sarah Walker's excellent Arculator Archimedes emulator.
thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
Sure; M1 Max, 64GB RAM running Ventura 13.2.1 (and Parallels Pro 18).
thoughtbag
·hace 3 años·discuss
I can tell you now that 2022 was the year of Linux on the desktop with Apple+Parallels! :)

I have a mini datacenter on my desk right now with 5 Debian machines running, 1 Windows 10, 1 OpenBSD machine as gateway for the others. No lag.

Just now I fired up YouTube on 3 of these Debian machines in Firefox as well as one in the Windows 10 VM. All running full screen 1080p videos (a wide second display with 3 VM's, the main display showing the Windows VM). No lag.

Also, I have _never_ heard the fan on this thing. Unsure if it has one! :)

The CPU/GPU combo is of course great, but it's the 400GB/s memory bandwidth that makes all the difference I think.

([edit] oh, and the battery life is nuts.)