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    [โ€“] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 88 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    In case anyoneโ€™s wondering, itโ€™s probably because you learn that even really old computers are still really powerful and work fine under Linux especially if youโ€™re gonna use them as a small home server.

    [โ€“] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 34 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    every time I see a fairly priced computer on our second hand market I just wanna buy it I'm not good with money

    [โ€“] lemming741@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    You can't just bring in every stray you find on the street

    [โ€“] sep@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

    You just need a bigger house

    [โ€“] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    A house full of old computers ought to smell better than one full of cats, anyway. I wonder if the power bill is cheaper than the cat food bill, though.

    [โ€“] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Anytime someone I know upgrades their laptop, Iโ€™m hoping they will offer me the old one ๐Ÿ˜‚

    [โ€“] archemist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

    I'm thinking of upgrading from my Asus e200ha at some point. Want it when I do?

    [โ€“] Zink 16 points 2 months ago

    Having the right motivations behind design decisions is everything.

    I use Linux Mint Cinnamon, which is very full-featured and turn-key. It is not designed to be stripped down and lightweight; it is designed to be a drop-in replacement for windows. And it still feels like greased lightning in comparison. Windows just feels like a bad product now, even if we ignore the spying and the non-free nature of it.

    [โ€“] fossilesque@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

    Actually real.

    [โ€“] 4oreman@lemy.lol 48 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    no way that bedroom is wired foe that much electrical draw

    [โ€“] HeckGazer 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I think that's what the added power pole seen in the window is for, they just tap straight off that

    [โ€“] 4oreman@lemy.lol 18 points 2 months ago

    ah, good observation

    [โ€“] Deckweiss@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    I guess you didn't watch the anime. (Serial Experiments Lain)

    In the story, some secret agency is running an experiment on her. Her family is fake, she gets custom, powerful hardware slipped to her by strangers, etc. So it is reasonable to assume that in that scenario that bedroom would actually be wired for that much electrical draw.

    [โ€“] metaStatic@kbin.earth 33 points 2 months ago
    [โ€“] coherent_domain@infosec.pub 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Serial Experiments: Lain-ux distro-hopping

    [โ€“] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 25 points 2 months ago

    Fuck all technology based aesthetics except for whatever it was that Lain was serving.

    [โ€“] jaybone@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I just like being able to write shell scripts and fix shit myself.

    Though I have accumulated a closet full of various hardware and cables which oddly comes in handy.

    [โ€“] avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago

    *occasionally. But nothing beats the feeling of seeing a cool idea for a project and realizing you have all the parts needed.

    [โ€“] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
    [โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 5 points 2 months ago

    !lain@sh.itjust.works

    [โ€“] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

    Came here for this โค๏ธ

    [โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Alright, ive watched this anime twice and i guess im clearly missing something. What's special about it? The animation was okay. They could have thrown in a couple of jokes to spice it up. Maybe toss a pie at the floaty girl once in a while, huh?

    [โ€“] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

    What's special about it?

    the reason it looks to you like it's just part of the crowd is because it helped define that crowd, in a direction that was distinctly different from 80s cyberpunk and far more rooted in our modern reality - which is impressive considering it's approaching 30 years old now and the internet was in its infancy at the time. it was a pioneer in visual elements and aesthetic vis a vis the web, and it's ingrained in counterculture as its initial popularity spread on 4chan.

    i've heard it said that lain is to autism as neon genesis evangelion is to depression, so it may also just be that you're not the target audience.

    [โ€“] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 20 points 2 months ago

    Well at least she got a thicker matress

    [โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [โ€“] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

    This could basically be "before Lain" and "after Lain" for me

    [โ€“] Fuzzypyro@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Whatโ€™s the source? I am 100% interested in why so many computers were acquired.

    [โ€“] guiguinofake@sh.itjust.works 51 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    Serial Experiments : Lain

    It's one of the best animes I've watched. Be warned though it's pretty weird but like in a good way

    [โ€“] Trail@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

    Been many years since, but it was great. Was thinking about the next version of TCP/IP afterwards.

    Serial Experiments Lain. It's a wild ride

    [โ€“] Petter1@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

    Keep on it, I needed to watch till last episode until I understood (most)

    [โ€“] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

    Fair warning, it's a weird one. I had to read a few short essays after I finished it to really get it. Highly recommend, it's only 12 episodes so not much of a time investment

    [โ€“] synapse1278@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    No way you can sleep in this room, must be so damn loud and hot in there !

    [โ€“] Im_old@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    White noise from the slow humming fans, perfect!

    [โ€“] jet@hackertalks.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    And you can wake up when your big job is done and the fans ramp down! living in harmony with the machine

    [โ€“] Im_old@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

    Oh man, you have no idea. I've learnt to wake up when the noise dies, it means something's wrong.

    [โ€“] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    For the era of tech shown, you'd also have tons of clicking and whirring hard drive noise as well. Old Hard Drives are noisy. You can hear all the seeking and read/write operations.

    Personally, I find that noise comforting, but the inconsisent nature of it would make it hard to tune out.

    [โ€“] Im_old@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

    you're not wrong, but with enough drives the different seeking noises just blend together so you don't hear the single one, just the wider harmony ๐Ÿ˜€

    [โ€“] toynbee@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    This reminds me of a relatively early Real Life Comics, wherein a character is introduced to Linux and, shortly thereafter, is seen to be building Beowulf clusters.

    [โ€“] starchylemming@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    this is the first time I've heard of beowulf clusters and i like it

    pc necromancy / zombie hivemind supercomputer

    [โ€“] toynbee@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

    That comic is also how I learned about them! I'm glad to continue the legacy.

    Unfortunately, I have yet to find a good way to search Real Life Comics, so I can't find the particular strip. It's a very different comic these days.

    [โ€“] _____@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

    me when doing serial experiments (I'm using uart from a pico to a desktop)

    [โ€“] highrfrequenc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

    Is this one of those five nights at Freddy games?

    [โ€“] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Based on this picture, I'm pretty sure I want to be before linux....

    [โ€“] Petter1@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    You donโ€™t like living in a satacenter? ๐Ÿซข

    [โ€“] Trail@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    I don't think SATA was invented yet.

    [โ€“] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

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