I used to and might even still have a localtalk to ethertalk bridge. It was made by one of the handful of ubiquitous 68k era suppliers that made everything for macs back then, but I forget which.

BITD I used to run netatalk, samba, and nfs on the same Linux box for a geek house. Everybody could access their homes and a shared drive.

They also made localtalk cards for PCs.

I am due to make another pass through my cables and crap bins and free another one up, I might still have an ethernet card which I think is for the SE. I also have an SE which doesn't boot which has a Radius 16MHz accelerator in it, an 020 I think. I sold the SE once and then the buyer never came to get it, and never connected with me to have it delivered, and that was years ago... I hope I didn't lose it already, but I think I have a case cracker bit as well...

They just ask Amazon, but they can cache results once you're retrieving them. So they depend on people checking prices on things to record any of their own data.

Ha! I've been through this on Debian! Where I don't think it actually does even use a small tmpfs, but I set it up that way. I decided to keep it that way and make use of TMPDIR, which is how I discovered that Nvidia is a little bitch. You have to both set TMPDIR and pass --tmpdir=$TMPDIR in order for the Nvidia Linux installer to unpack into TMPDIR. Make that make sense.

That's weird, that's where I got it and I'm still running it successfully now.

Price tracker CamelCamelCamel offers browser extensions which allow you to get charts showing price history. Go to an Amazon page and the icon appears in the address bar, click it and the chart pops up. (This is how the Firefox extension works, anyway.) We ordered one of those Solar "Generator" units (I hate it when people or companies call them that, they are not that, but anyway) from Amazon during their sale because it actually was cheaper.

A village is the best way to raise a child. People should learn that they are part of interconnected communities as they grow up. Ideally people would be directly involved instead of their needing to be some kind of government assistance stepping in, but we've become increasingly disconnected from our neighbors and that allows echo chambers to form and fester.

What causes you to imagine I never clicked the link? My response was about the quick google search snark. I also did a google search, that's how I found the links I posted, but it sure didn't show that one in my results - and I looked at the top 30 or so.

Anyway, bummer. What kind of fucking wingnut believes in AGW and then lights a forest fire?

Indeed, and exactly what thinking people expect from a PR flack for a corporation which produced and distributed literally the most insidious spyware of all time.

Are you somehow still unaware that Google delivers different search results to different people for the same searches?

I don't see "plenty of details" about his political affiliation, only some evidence that he was anti-religious. But I've known some conservatives who were that, so it proves nothing.

https://www.latimes.com/califo...
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/1...

Got anything to support your claims?

Nah, there are ethernet cards for vintage macs, and you can use netatalk to provide them with file services. This makes a lot more sense today than messing with antique SCSI drives. You also don't have to get very vintage to read those floppies, there are lots of machines out there which will do it.

Wow, they use a cathode and an anode? HIGH TECH SHIT.

Seriously though, I am hoping they are successful. I want batteries to continue falling rapidly in price so I root for any improvements anywhere. Competition is good. I also still want to see NCM banned for multiple reasons, and having more alternate and safer options makes that more likely.

It would require magic for you to say something intelligent.

Only in early days of the C64 were cartridges or even cassettes the dominant storage media. The disk drive got cheaper over time, and they brought out a second and cheaper model of it as well which was less shit. In fact, people who weren't poor (which doesn't describe me, mind) commonly had two 1541s, because you could program them to do sector copies, and copy basically anything.

I forget what the software was because I didn't have a C64 or floppy drives, but I knew plenty of people who had both. (I had an Apple ][+, then a used IBM PC 5150, and then I got an Amiga 500 which was succeeded by several other Amigas up to a 3000, and then I got a 386 and ran Linux and now here we are with me still running Linux.)

You're a stupid fucking clown. There's maybe a double handful of Democrats who believe in those things. Look at the way the rest of them vote, they are sellouts every day and twice on Fridays. Also, maybe you didn't notice because you have your head so far up your own asshole you're a human klein bottle, but the Democrats are currently leading Jack and Shit.

Moving the goalposts.

You claimed that most software was distributed on cartridge.

Defend that claim or retract it, don't shift the discussion to some alternate irrelevant shit.

I knew lots of people with C64s, and all of them had floppy drives. I was the only one with a C= without one (my father got me a C= 16 from somewhere, who fucking knows, but no floppy or in fact any software or a tape interface or anything... thanks dad) and then I got an Amiga.