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Comment Re:Not a 486 thing, but... (Score 1) 124

The code has been actively tested on real hardware recently, as noted I've got two 486s that I've been abusing with modern Linux via Gentoo for years, both have been active in the last 6 months, and I'm not the only one poking around, but there aren't massive numbers of us for sure. If it wasn't getting feedback, there wouldn't be any friction to devs touching support for later generations 'cause they wouldn't know they've broken things for the older kit.

Comment Re:Not a 486 thing, but... (Score 1) 124

To me, the 'fix' seems to be spinning up a new arch branch, call it x86-old or whatever. Use that to bring up a clean start 386/486/etc arch so that people playing in the main x86 area aren't tripping over the old code. We've got all the info needed to do so already sitting there in the src. Now, if there are enough users left to drive such a branch, dunno. I still play with my Soekris 4501 and 4801 as a hobby but I'm no longer using them in production, and my C knowledge isn't good enough to make this happen.

Comment Re:AI vs GPL? (Score 1) 45

Actually, it has to be 'substantial human input' to be considered valid. Reworking prompts, and then doing photoshop tweaking to the resulting image is not enough to clear the bar to get copyright protection for example. Another that's been through the process, using AI to generate a book and then doing some light editing on it, the 'author' was allowed to claim copyright on the layout, but not the content after appealing multiple times and trying to claim an ADA exception. So if AI spat out 100 lines of code, and you touched up a few... unlikely to be considered enough to qualify for copyright. If you modify it enough to clear that bar... what did the AI really do?

Comment Re:Better than nothing (Score 3, Informative) 74

Most people that have solar on the roof are just setup for grid tie, so when the power goes out, their system shuts down as well, so they're just as in the dark as those around them. Solar + battery that can run independent of the grid is far rarer due to the increased install cost and concern over batter replacement costs down the line.

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