#system software

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[d1mndnthr0ugh]

maybe this isn't a hot take but system files should not be allowed to take up 30% of the advertised storage on your device

I get that 32gb isn't exactly massive anymore and I don't know much about operating systems

but surely you can fit all the necessary parts of an android into less than 10 gigs

now my samsung galaxy tab a is by no means a new device, I think it's about four or five years old and hadn't gotten an update in probably a year now

but at this point I'm not sure if it's slowing down because of age or because the system files are intentionally bloating my storage

it said 9.51gb yesterday

[digital-enlightenment]

सॉफ्टवेयर क्या होता है? | What is a Software? (Free Hindi Notes) - 2023

सॉफ्टवेयर एक कंप्यूटर का महत्वपूर्ण हिस्सा है जो कंप्यूटर हार्डवेयर को संचालित करने और यूजर्स को विभिन्न कार्यों के लिए साधन प्रदान करने में मदद करता है। सादे शब्दों में, सॉफ्टवेयर कंप्यूटर की योजना, तंत्र, और अनुप्रयोगों का संग्रह होता है जो यूजर्स को विभिन्न कार्यों को करने में सहायता करता है। सॉफ्टवेयर दो मुख्य प्रकार के होते हैं: सिस्टम सॉफ्टवेयर और अनुप्रयोग सॉफ्टवेयर। सिस्टम सॉफ्टवेयर…

[meltedmush]

[goldbiite]

What did you wish for?

[tossawary]

One of my favorite parts of the original "Star Wars" trilogy is when it cuts to Imperial officers and troopers just having... really shitty days at Evil Work. Love watching some guy obviously desperately rethinking his career path and struggling to stand still as Darth Vader Force-chokes the guy standing next to him over a video call. (They clearly Did Not Know that he could do that.) I get to imagine people within the Empire getting the email that Darth Vader is visiting their workplace and everyone immediately trying to book their vacation days through some crappy bureaucratic portal.

[collophora]

Quick test of magma Who instantly denied pressure sensitivity

[computer-nerd-girl]

[aloeverified]

i love all of @gin-juice-tonic's trans stan twins comics and i've centered all my gf beliefs around them, but i can't stop thinking about how funny it would be for stan to be a trans man and ford to be a trans woman.

imagine you're stan and you've been disowned for about ten years and haven't seen your family at all since, and during that time you've found and lost yourself more times than you can count, but you've finally settled on the fact that you're a man and it's time for you to transition. and then as soon as can finally start testosterone, your twin brother wants to see you ASAP.

and so you're stressed out the entire way there, not just because your brother seems to have gotten into some trouble, but because you have no clue how he's gonna react to you now being his brother.

only for him to not even notice or say a single thing about your new wardrobe that still has some of the tags from when you shoplifted it or about the scruff on your chin that you've been pretty proud of.

no, instead he's going on about the fbi and people who want to steal his skin or something.

and so everything happens the same way, and stan has essentially gotten the life he's always wanted: everyone thinks he's his genius brother, he's still in contact with his family (though stanford didn't exactly call home everyday so neither does he), and he's a man — and not one person doubts it. except he's not the man he's always wanted to be because he doesn't have his brother beside him throughout it all, becoming a man with him.

and then stanford comes back and is impossibly autistic and bitter so he just assumes stan went through the process of transition (assuming he used some gender changing potion he found noted about in the journal) just to further steal ford's identity.

and stan explains, no, you fucking idiot, i've been a man for thirty-something odd years and you just didn't notice because you were too busy being insane. and so yeah, that's how stan's whole coming out goes.

and ford just responds with, "oh. yeah, me too. she/they is fine."

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[bmpmp3]

based off this video. i think teto is a union man

[tyrannodokuro]

i don't even know if this meme is relevant, but when has that stopped the internet before

[nixcraft]

start them young

[yiikingpatriarch]

peerless puyo

[knightscanfeeltoo]

Lucatiel and an Odd Gentleperson, Testament...

(I could never have Cool Hats like them...)

[basic-retro-programming]

MICROSOFT has released the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license ...

https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2024/04/25/open-sourcing-ms-dos-4-0/

"Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum, and then later republished them for reference purposes. This code holds an important place in history and is a fascinating read of an operating system that was written entirely in 8086 assembly code nearly 45 years ago. 

Today, in partnership with IBM and in the spirit of open innovation, we’re releasing the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license. There’s a somewhat complex and fascinating history behind the 4.0 versions of DOS, as Microsoft partnered with IBM for portions of the code but also created a branch of DOS called Multitasking DOS that did not see a wide release."

Jeff Wilcox & Scott Hanselman

Post 302: Microsoft, Open Source Blog, The release of the MS DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT licence, 2024.