danielktdoranie

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Comment · 25 days ago

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Comment · 2 months ago

Hardly anyone ran NT on these beautiful chips. Tru64 was the OS of choice for these in 1998. Hence the decision by MS to cease support. Running NT on a Dec Alpha would be like running kerosene in your Ferrari’s engine. If you wanted to run Windows NT you could do so a lot cheaper on an x86 PC.

Comment · 8 months ago

I don't get the Liquid Glass hate, doesn't really impact me, but I can see it's really disliked by a lot of people!

Comment · 8 months ago

Yeah, I keep an G4 PowerBook around to watch DVDs on and run PowerPC Mac abandonware... it can surprisingly do a lot. IRC, Hotline, BBS, Gopher, etc. A YouTube channel called "Squeezing The Apple" has a lot of videos showing the use you can get out of an old PowerPC Mac.

Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@squeezingtheapple6990

When you max out the RAM (around 2GB) and put in a solid state IDE hard disk they can be useful. I occasionally use mine as a distraction free writing tool.

Other than abandonware (old games for example), they can't do anything a modern Mac couldn't do, so I wouldn't go nuts finding and buying one of these but if you have one laying around, and have the parts you need for an upgrade these old Macs can be fun.

Comment · 9 months ago

I just use the gmail mobile website on my smartphone and put a link to it on my Home Screen. So many of these services you don’t necessarily need an app for, unless you just enjoy giving them your personal data or something ha ha

Comment · 10 months ago

Do most people still watch stuff on their TVs? I haven’t used my TV for anything in 2 years. I usually consume content on my smartphone or computer.

Comment · 10 months ago

Cool. Somebody put it in a laptop please.

Comment · 11 months ago

Cheap Chromebook. Kids are hard on stuff