• Robin@lemmy.world
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    This is what happens to your computer if you allow Rust in the kernel. /s

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      I’ve seen Linux kernels powering eletrical instalations control monitors. I’d risk we can say that if it runs on electric impulses, it can run Linux.

      When will EVs be jailbroken?

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    anyone else felt the impending finger slice in that photo? case looks pissed and out for flesh.

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        There are people out there powering their PC with electricity … what a bunch of environmentally unfriendly weirdos.

        I just top up my BSU (blood supply unit) daily and it purrs (in Latin) like a charm.

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    You guys run a motherboard? Im just running 2 diodes and a vacuum tube to manually type in all the 1s and 0s that make up the linux kernel /j

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      That’s nothing, I have a group of ravens who fly around in strict RISC-V formations, giving me shiny bits from time to time all part of the ramdisk boot sequence

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    I revived a friend’s old laptop by installing Linux on it, and I told her that using Linux entitled her to a small amount of “nerd creds”. Years later, she told me that it did end up eliciting mild approval from a woman who ended up being her partner for multiple years. The system works!

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    I think you’ll find that’s the recommended spec, not the minimum requirements.

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    Very funny, but I actually used to own a computer that didn’t meet the minimum requirements for Linux.

    (Not my pic, but the same model.)

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    I installed Tiny Core Linux on an old ass netbook laptop on which even Windows 7 kinda lagged. Went CLI only, no DE and made the laptop thousand times more usable. I’ve basically repurposed that laptop as an external hard drive for things I don’t need backed up but good to have a backup of.

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    Needs some work on the cable management but no other notes, 5/7 build.

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    Linux is between the requirements of a raspberry pi pico and a raspberry pi zero I would say

    Although some crazy person did get Linux running on an esp32 once

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        I’ve seen videos of people running Damn Small Linux with a GUI on Pentium 1s.

        None of them are very recent, so I don’t know how well ‘modern’ DSL would fare on a P1, but there are a few recent videos of people browsing the web using Dillo on Pentium 3s.

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          I installed Debian Buster and ran Firefox on my Pentium 3 750 a couple of years ago. It wasn’t very fast or very usable, but I ran it.

          I mostly use that system for retro games in DOS 6.2 and Windows 98. The Debian installation is my utility OS for when I want to transfer new stuff to the DOS partitions, because it’s way easier to connect it to the network.