I used ICONs in school growing up in Ontario, Canada, they were so cool. It was a sad day when Windows PCs replaced them in the computer lab.
All but a few of these computers were destroyed by the ministry of education. And without the LEXICON server that accompanied them, they're basically useless.
For a bit of fun, I ran the DOOM shareware demo using the official QNX4 port on a 486SX with 8M of ram.
I picked up QNX6 again as a hobbyist later in life... until self-hosted QNX was killed, no bootable .ISOs after 6.5. Then they killed the hobbyist license, killed the Photon desktop GUI, dropped any native toolchain support in place of a Windows/Linux-hosted IDE. Porting software became difficult, pkgsrc no longer maintained.
They are completely noncommittal as a company, nothing short of actually open-sourcing it under the MIT/BSD would convince me to use it again.. and not another source-available effort that they inevitably rug pull again.
I participated in some consumer testing when Kellogg's Canada was switching their breakfast cereals to natural colours. Beyond some muted colours, the cereal tasted exactly the same. Seemed like a no brainer, really.
Was it just the US who enjoyed brighter, shinier and arguably "faker" things, or did other countries also experience sales drops when other brands removed artificial coloring?
I'm curious (as in HN curious discussion) whether this points to something greater about US culture.
Longer than two years, for pre-COVID reasons mostly. Not coping too well..
It sure would be nice if one of those bitcoin millionaires came out of nowhere willing to sponsor me. I'd love to focus on open source, without worrying about making rent or eating this month.
What's interesting is that the syscall-compatibility layers in the BSDs began with SunOS binary compat on NetBSD m68k/32-bit sparc-- which was created by Theo de Raadt.
Not true, CPU frequency scaling (apmd, cpu.setperf/perfpolicy) is supported on many ARM machines, including the ThinkPad X13s, Apple M1/M2 Silicon, Raspberry Pi 4 (but may depend on whether using EDK2 or U-Boot firmware).
Support for Snapdragon X Elite machines was added as recently as last month, even..
Attracting new monthly sponsors and people willing to buy me the occasional pizza with my crappy HTML skills.
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