MCS-51

MCS-51, as in the Intel Microcontroller? I’m trying to find some link between that chip and the VHS standard, but I’m not immediately coming up with anything. From my reading, I see that some variants of the MCS-51 incorporate DSP functionality, which would make for a good analogue media device, but I’m not seeing any VHS VCRs that use one.

I’m far sadder to see the various MIPS machines starting to lose support than I am for Itanic.

My favorites:

Mono:

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka

Period. Full stop. A line of nothing but exclamation points. The Iosevka family blows every other mono-width font out of the water with at LEAST one, if not more, of its extremely customizable variations.

F/W:

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Comfortaa

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rowdies

https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway

Manjaro was NOTHING but problems when I installed it.

This. My spouse is working on an online business and needed a laptop to carry around to do inventory with. I happen to have an old Asus 32-bit Celeron netbook collecting dust, so I gave it a bit of a wipedown, installed the latest version of Debian with XFCE on it, and let them install what they needed from there.

So if you get a 64-bit machine AT ALL, it will absolutely run the latest versions of Linux.

(Why is this a thing?

Lots of computers in industry are very low-spec. They use less power and have fewer requirements. As long as there are people who use that hardware and/or are willing to port fixes and new kernel features to it, it’ll keep getting updates. You only run into the ‘dropped compatibility’ thing when really no one is using it.)

I’m always nervous when hearing about new filesystems since a certain high profile news incident a several years back.

I really, really, really hope that Kent Overstreet has a really good relationship with any partner or spouse he may or may not have.

Start with Mint or Pop!OS. I’m not familiar with the Surface hardware, but Mint, in particular, seems to make driver handling a breeze. I’m very comfortable recommending Mint to folks new to Linux.

tbh, this was my first post on Lemmy after deciding to dump reddit like the hot garbage it became. When I saw that the post could have an image attachment in addition to the text, this sprang to mind immediately.