Joe Groffjoe
Oct 14, 2026, 5:45 PM@dysfun we simply need to make sure a five-year-old thinkpad is available to everyone who wants one
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gaytabasedysfun@treehouse.systemsOct 14, 2026, 5:46 PM@joe that's apparently no guarantee of anything. my graphics card is like a decade old now and apparently when i've finished recompiling my kernel i can look forward to issues.
- Joe GroffjoeOct 14, 2026, 5:47 PM
@dysfun but yeah it sucks because Linux pretty much just works on anything PC-shaped these days, even FreeBSD struggles by comparison, and everything else is nowhere close
another idle fancy project i had in mind was an nLite-style hack to pare first party Windows/OS X installs down to the bare minimum needed to host a hypervisor that can provide an easy-to-support HAL for alternative OSes to run under