IngeniousRocks (They/She)

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Cake day: December 7th, 2024

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  • Is it not cause to celebrate that the figurehead of one’s source of ire is eliminated?

    Like, let’s pretend for a moment he isn’t human, not because he’s a disgusting vampire but because for this analogy he can’t be.

    So like, let’s pretend for a moment that 10 years ago a robot, who’s programming is visible to the whole public, was elected to office. That robot has one goal, increase the GDP. Nevermind that GDP is a bad metric, nevermind that no intelligent programmer would design such a machine this machine was not borne of intelligence, it was borne of the desire to raise the GDP.

    Ok, so President Robot decides the very first thing we need to do to raise the GDP, is start deporting anyone that doesn’t look like president Robot’s programmed self image, something like this 🎃. If your smile isn’t creepy enough, and you don’t have enough ridges on your head, president robot says you’re up next for deportation. Nevermind that you’ve been here your whole life, nevermind that your parent’s came here 40 years ago. You don’t have ridges and a creepy smile, get on the plane. Dont like it? Ok protest.

    So, its been 8 years, president Robot’s team of robots managed to change the metrics by which it is determined who becomes the next leader. This was of course, done quietly and accross many places. President Robot’s team is thorough of course, and has managed to make the new minimum threshold to take office only around 45%, that’s WAY less than what they needed before. So now, president Robot can be re-elected using only the robots made to keep president robot in power instead of needing real people who need to be convinced because they have “needs” and “families” and “rent to pay”.

    So when president robot suddenly, after years of the whole country saying “You’re neglecting president Robot’s maintenance” finally seizes up and can’t pump oil through it’s clogged cooling and lubrication system, I’m sure people will celebrate. NOT because the Robot is dead. NOT because they hate the robot. But because the Robot can’t hurt them anymore.

    This Hyperbole brought to you by the side of my bathtub










  • I’ve got a 8GB swap drive nowadays (yes I know its awful for flash memory, idc) but the vm.swappiness isn’t adjustable on FreeBSD so it just simply isn’t swappy enough. Rarely ever goes above 128MB swap in use, it orefers to crash.

    Its not an active project for me as of right now but I plan to make a tool to adjust the swappiness at some point when I figure out what chunk of code is responsible for it in the kernel. At that point I’ll be able to use it to drastically increase memory related stability, until then though the 2005 era business PC remains a lumbering creature, with much care needed to keep it from crashing.


  • Firefox ESR will open, and can navigate to lite.duckduckgo.com or other lightweight sites. Attempting to use multiple tabs results in OOM killer killing firefox, or the whole system locking up, whichever comes first.

    This machine exists as an exercise in ascetism. By denying myself modern amenities I seek to free myself from distraction, enabling me to do more, higher quality work.

    what can you run with only one gig of RAM

    Mostly just text editors and terminal apps. For me, this is a good thing, for most I assume its a dealbreaker.

    Occasionally I’ll boot the machine off a USB HDD with windows 95 on it for retro gaming. It handles that like a champ.