https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-ends-486-support/

I am surprised to learn it was May of last year, with the 6.15 kernel being the first to drop 486 support and the 386 family dropping out back in 2012.

After a touch more research to figure out what the oldest currently-supported computers would be: I also hadn’t realized the first Pentium debuted in 1993. Pentium and compatibles are still operable, so there are maintained distros out there like Tiny Core Linux that will work on computers made 33 years ago. Just amazing.

Assuming they end up making it for export. The article makes it sound like other Chinese companies are already interested so they may be the primary customers

This is an educated guess but I think the entire US nuclear arsenal is so old that it predates Linux entirely.

Not a genocide. No mass killings. Pure propaganda pushed by a CIA plant named Adrian Zenz. (You should look into him; he’s a religious zealot who believes his Agency-promoted investigation is a mission from God.) The UN’s own report from 2022 never uses the word genocide. https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/08/1125932

It is an anti-radicalization education program put in place because the CIA was arming and training groups of Uyghurs with the intent of creating terrorist cells, just like they’ve done in bunches of other countries.

The word “genocide” should never be used lightly. What Israel is doing to the people of occupied Palestine? That’s a genocide.

https://isaiprofitable.com/

They can only burn so much money before investors stop giving it.

It really is amazing how far back Linux reaches. Aren’t there a few distros with current support that will run on a 486?

“BLUEBERRIES ARE FUCKING PURPLE!”

Electric cars are built to save the car as a mode of individual transportation. they are not built to save the environment

Thank you for a good laugh, I am so happy that exists

Shame. They should’ve let it happen and redacted all the attendees.

Grub refers to this as chainloading and I did it years ago successfully (though with windows 10). Everything has to be EFI boot so grub can see the windows bootloader.

I have never felt more like I was gonna die on the road than the couple years I had only a bicycle, in one of the richest counties in the United States. I got run off the road, people threw things at me, swore at me, etc.

I feel far safer on a motorcycle.

Lately I’ve been seeing right-wing nuts hating Israel a lot more, as they’ve finally realized it aligns with their “Jewish global control conspiracy” and overall anti-Semitism.

Horses are scared of two things. Things that move, and things that don’t

Not so fun fact: there’s a bacterium transmissible to humans through cat waste, toxoplasma gondii. One of the symptoms of a toxoplasmosis infection is a complete inability to smell cat urine.

That’s what I first thought of when reading your story, because cat hoarders often get toxoplasmosis and thus have no idea that they smell bad. The disease can cause all kinds of neurological symptoms and also cause birth defects when pregnant women get infected.

Seems like a very short article if it’s based on 3 years of research as the author claims!

If you don’t want to be informed then you have nothing to contribute to this discussion.