asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'iron babel' of x86 means that there is not and never has been such a thing as 'general purpose kernel'. there exist of course the fraudulent imitations, of shituntu etc. where they roll in 500MB of ??? 'all possible modules' , but it is beneath contempt
asciilifeform: so if you have a working kernel for a particular iron, you can use it with cuntoo, regardless of what shape cuntoo takes.
asciilifeform: trinque: specifically i mean that kernel is built ~for the iron~ rather than 'for the userland'
asciilifeform: fwiw kernel is ~entirely separate affair from userland.
asciilifeform: ( i discovered the method quite early, in the days of mass FG tests, but did not know the sheer number of sad boxen / kernels afflicted, that turn out to need it )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i still dunget why it has to be issue, usb hub can be dialed down to desired speed with method described on FG www pg
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: note that this kernel is tailored to dulap-style box (i.e. amd, and with that particular raid card)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for rk , separate, and recently updated ( pending publication )
asciilifeform: interestingly the weak point was not the metals, then, but the pressure gasket. they had to use leather.
asciilifeform: their compressor was a thing resembling old school fire brigade pump, the kind with seesaw handle
asciilifeform: was finnicky/expensive tech tho, and did not catch on
asciilifeform: it is interesting to consider the austrian rifle -- was 'wunderwaffe' of its time, picture, <1s/shot , and iirc 50+ shots on one bottle, with ~= energy to musket of the time
asciilifeform: folx who fill diving tanks, use these.
asciilifeform: can use electric compressor, as mircea_popescu's photo, but these are finnicky & expensive, need regular oiling
asciilifeform: takes about 40min, if you're in shape
asciilifeform: ( btw modern air rifle, not the break-open type but the refinement of the austrian 1700s concept, where you pump for hour to fill the bottle, is mighty impressive item, i have one here for pest control, readily punches hole in several wooden planks laid together )
asciilifeform: supersonic per se is not so difficult to achieve, ordinary air rifle gives routinely
asciilifeform: expensive, but for same dough as the usg gigantic laser nonsense can get much bigger bang.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: giant artillery is a fertile field , imho ( take for instance the concept of evacuated barrel. impressive results even among basement aficionados with air rifles, in these )
asciilifeform: i recall a thread where mircea_popescu contracted a foundry to make a whipping fixture or what was it, because argentines can't make anyffing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what happened at that bancomat ?
asciilifeform: aanyway i'm off to unwind for a spell in the room where it's 1982 , bbl.
asciilifeform: ( oblig. emulated-mircea_popescu answers, 'why do you need to take a comp on airplanes! sit on throne, in beach, drink rum, instead' )☟︎
asciilifeform: or take the 'dollar store' quality kbd. already sop in all lappy.
asciilifeform: upstack -- folx who aint condemned to work with crapple artifacts, can laugh off the idiocies, but they spread like pestilence to other vendors, e.g. glossy lcd, glued-in battery, gpu soldered with balls that thermally cycle and guaranteed to come loose in 3-4 yrs, have already become ~ubiquitous in other portable boxen
asciilifeform: and , fwiw, asciilifeform would rather live in su circa 1982 and design little calculators for 'elektronika'. but nobody asked him.
asciilifeform: it isn't any moar outrageous than the butane-filled refrigerator BingoBoingo found himself with☟︎
asciilifeform: hey, i suspect the caterpillar battery is inevitable : 'ecological!111'
asciilifeform: ( since mircea_popescu is asleep, i'ma have to put in placeholder for the oblig thread, [ m: 'you deserve this for working for a living, idjit' a: '...' ] )
asciilifeform: and it'll still be preferable to microshit.
asciilifeform: i can already picture it : 2y from nao, asciilifeform will be posting re crapple box where there's tank of poisonous brazilian caterpillars in place of battery, and they broke loose, and gotta stand in queue to have'em replaced, and meanwhile crawling up sleeves
asciilifeform: ( i would say 'catches fire' is next, but then recalled that this is already not uncommon, and not merely in crapple machines )
asciilifeform: crapple has never not sucked, but the battery glue is imho a new low. gotta wonder what's next, maybe spikes will randomly emerge from the kbd
asciilifeform: ftr this was their last even half-usable box, right before they took away the f-keys.
asciilifeform: diana_coman: fashions aside, if you're misfortunate enuff to need a recent x86-64 lappy where can attach large external displays, wifi, etc without aeons of config tweaking and flaky, yer stuck with crapple
