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I don't think that anyone's yet booted a Linux kernel on a purely-mechanical computer yet.
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If you make a redstone PC and don't consider the requirements to run Minecraft... Probably (in-world it wouldn't be using electricity)
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Even this potato with 512MB of RAM runs a bunch of linux web services without issue.
I feel old...when I was learning how to run Linux I started with an old 386 (maybe 486?) my dad wasn't using. I think it had 32MB RAM, which was fancy for those machines.
We had dial up at the time, so only one machine could be on the Internet. So, I set up a modem on the x86, plugged into an Ethernet hub (switch?), and learned enough ipchains (this was before iptables) to share a connection. It also ran Samba, an AFP server, and probably FTP and HTTP (just for local access)
but it worked for filesharing.
It could also run MP3 streaming software which amused me because the machine itself was too slow to decode MP3 (but that's not necessary to stream).
Sorry for asking. I know this is unrelated but my RPI zero 2 chip cracked have you ever seen something like this before. It was used for mainsail os
Wow that looks dope. Have never seen anything like that even with much higher power chips. I assume it burned interally and the gas/heat pressure cracked it open.
I doubt it is OS related. This shouldnt be possible without custom firmware that turns off the power and temperature limits. Unless it had a manufacturing error i guess.
Is the broken chunk loose so you can tear it off?
It isn't completely loose it works I think as LEDs light up but it burns getting up to I would say ~80 C in about 3 seconds. I got a new one today and it works maybe I will attach a PC cooler to run it
You can easily run 2 of Windows Tiny11 builds on that.
https://windowsforum.com/threads/tiny11-run-windows-11-on-just-184-mb-of-ram.348835/
I've tried tiny11 3 times on 2 different laptops. Both were alright resources wise, but still worse than any Linux distro I've tried. After you install some stuff and get forced into the automatic updates, it bloats up fast and slows down drastically, and then just becomes standard windows 11.
If you use only the basic built in windows apps, which doesn't even include edge of the app store, and you use it without internet, sure, you can use it well on very low specs, but even on a moderately spec computer, it'll still slow down if you use it like the average person.
What weird forum is that? It looks like 90% of all posts, including the linked one, is written by ChatGPT.
Can't say I'm overly happy having this ai slop linked here.
At a glance, replies by ChatGPT to support questions look much more useful than whatever so-called certified professionals write on official MS support forums. Not that it is particularly hard.
Huh, it's also tagged as such. But my God is it vapid.
Technically M$ copilot.
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Yeah, but you can run 7 Debians on it without trying.
Yeah but that will not give you anything useful... Also Tiny11 is x86 only afaik.
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It also has anti requirements, like not having an nvidia graphics card
Those work pretty well these days
Full Linux system requirements:
- Electricity: optional
- Processor: Ideal
- Blahaj: full sized ideal (smallhaj is ok)
- Socks: thigh highs
- Skirt: spinny
- Breast Mints (good girl juice): self explanatory
- Additional requirements: :3
I don't know what half those things are but I laughed at the words "Breast Mints". No idea what it means.
Like titty skittles but minty
Basically Fem&ms
It's like Antiboyotics.
Also anticistamines
Has anyone tried getting linux to run on a mechanical computer?
Ok just wait us Microsoft execs are going to pressure Trump to keep increasing tariffs on the penguins and when all of a sudden they need new suits for all the tween penguins ready to shed their adolescent coat we will see who comes out on top.
This is how you do business, penguins don't know how to do business and we won't let them have our AI to figure out how to either.
Trump tried to tariff penguins because he didn't understand what Microsoft was talking about.
No, this is our plan?
Here at Microsoft's upper management we pride ourselves in expecting nothing but par excellence from one another when it comes to embodying the aesthetics of competence but we are just as gullible and lost in our own bullshit as Trump we just take the danger of the general public realizing this very serious which is why we are going to show the world we aren't kidding about getting these economically inefficient birds back into line by putting them into crushing debt.
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Reminds me of this old article (surprised the site is still operating)
LOA was the group that first installed Linux on a Shetland pony in 2003, but growing competition from other hacker groups have shut them out in the past five years.
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