I'm on the last mission of the Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines on PSP

I've been mostly playing on the PSP during my commute to work and back. The game itself is fine and my first of the series actually, but it feels like a cheap spin-off (and it is) on a mobile console.

I remember my Sony Ericsson K800i lasting a week or so on a single charge. With modern tech the equivalent would last at least 2 or 3 times that

I remember first gen smartphones where a bit shitty compared to the more expensive versions of regular phones and blackberries of that time

The notes, alarms etc part sounds like PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) to me. My dad used them extensively in the 90s and I would argue that they are the true predecessor to the modern smartphone.

I also remember my dad having a GPS device without a map. You could input waypoints and record a route and that's it. I searches a bit and it looks like it was Garmin GPS 45 XL (but I might need to confirm that with him - I'm sure he has it somewhere)

There were also early examples of portable mp3 players in the late 90s. I think they were mostly held back by the storage density - the best option was the ultra small HDD (like the first iPod had in 2001). I think a portable CD player was the default back then.

So all the ingredients were there in the late 90s, just not in one device.

The most fun bit of tech history I found on the internet is this mp3 car stereo from 1999, which was running Linux. It had max capacity of 28GB for the music (2 HDDs). I don't see myself needing much more than that even now. It was quite expensive, so it didn't sell very well.

I've also read that people would drive with a PC in their trunk with some head unit, so they could listen to mp3s it in the car. It would totally be me if I were the same age as now 30 years ago.

Maybe he meant taking from open-source instrad for paing for a service

Nice

What hardware are you running?

Fuck, even in my european country, there are many people hating on bycycles. Not even the bike lanes, just the fact of a person riding a bicycle.

Fucking awful how dividing the propaganda has gotten.

Maybe the US has a broken voting button, they would want to click "yes", but it ends up as "no" every time.

/s

24h grocery stores where awesome during covid. I really miss going shopping at 3 at night.

Now I'm back to: hungry? maybe going to sleep will fix it

That was the best prank on the primary school library computers I could think of until I discovered .bat files that could open windows endlessly and the poor windows xp eventually crashed. I also changed the icon on the shortcut to the file, so it looked like IE.

I keep about 55GB of system ISOs on my server, as an archive. 28GB out of that are w*nodes ISOs. Most of these are the ISOs I regularly use or are hard to find (like win11 old enough to make a local account, Orange Pi Zero 3 proprietary Linux image, etc)

I also seed a few of armbian and proxmox images, so that would be another 50GB.

And I have a 128GB Ventoy USB thumbdrive which is almost half full with ISOs, most of which are Linux

Nice, hope you'll have fun building and deploying your server.

Cases like NR200 would also fit a few 3.5" drives, but the reason I couldn't fit my current server into a SFF-ish case is that the mobo is mATX and I have all PCIe slots full. Most of the SFF cases (even if they fit mATX) not enough space for my PCIe needs.

I could upgrade to a built-in NVMe and SFP+ (or downgrade to 2.5GbE), but I don't want to spend that kind of money just to save some space I don't really need to save.