wood gas is still explosive gas. be careful; but it does work, for things you'd use propane for, at greatly reduced efficiency and probably longevity of any moving parts. with wide variance. including your lungs.
if you google your name (or handle, every hacker needs a handle, man...) it goes through double that, if memory serves (i might be off by a factor of 10 either side...)
i ran my whole house network off a laptop with the specs of a raspberry pi 2 for a really long time. I finally broke and moved it to a VM because the laptop's built in port and USB were finally too slow to route traffic, 11mbit USB! It took a decade+[1] of "innovation" in the US before i could finally buy internet faster than 11mbit. IIRC i switched to VM based IPCop in ~2007.
[1] My first broadband connection was in 1998 at 768/768 kbit symmetrical. My first megabit speed connection was in 2006 or 2007. in 2010 or 2011 we got VDSL and it was 16 whole megabits. Now i have 300mbit on a good day, and 150mbit on a bad day.
I literally wrote the guide on how to use old hardware with VM tech to route your house, first with ipcop[2], then generically[3], and just this week i wrote a guide on how to get ipv6 working with starlink and dd-wrt[4].
ETA: it is hilarious how much pushback i got about doing all of this in a VM, just scant years before "you should just use a VM for that" became the default answer, and a decade before "just put it in a k8s cluster and pay someone a quarter million a year to babysit it" became a thing...
also ipcop booted and installed off a single floppy forever
i would say that some cd burning software has the ability to make the cd bootable by copying syslinux and whatever else you need - or a floppy image. So you could just use the boot part of the CD-R.
however, only one of my machines has a permanent optical drive, so even this is going by the wayside.
now-a-days if i'd personally use this sort of thing for thin clients, with bootp/etc https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/nfs/nfsro... unsure if that guide is correct, i just skimmed it. I've done this before, but not for GUI, for compiler farms (distcc-pump, et al)
if one doesn't want to pay, one can use 32 bit (with all that entails, which, really, isn't much on the sort of machine you'd want to boot from floppy); if one wants 64 bit, one can pay?
The license says it's free for personal or educational use. The only real restrictions prohibit commercial use, redistributing, reverse engineering, disassembling, and decompiling without permission. While that is a a lot less restrictive than most licenses, most of those restrictions are also rather curious. It pretty much negates the value of the software as an educational tool, reducing it to a technology demo.
Prohibiting disassembling is worth about as much as "do not open, no user-serviceable parts inside" warnings ---- you are a true hacker only if you ignore them.
i revoked my HN credentials on my phone because i was arguing too much and otherwise not getting enough sleep.
When you have to get up and walk across a house to tell someone they're wrong on the internet, I try to make sure i won't have to delete it. I am contrite about a few of my off-the-cuff comments.
Uh huh, i get 300mbit burst 200mbit sustained download and 20mbit sustained upload, midday, from a forest in the dead center of louisiana. oh and with a consistent 59ms ping to our DC on the east coast (not aws), 24/7, over millions of pings.
can you tell me what other provider is doing that? for $120 a month? Were you thinking of hughesnet? because that was ADSL speeds with 20 times the latency. seriously, upwards of 1000ms round trip time.
yes, a century and a quarter ago there were electric cars. that went 15 units per hour for 20 minutes or whatever. Then Saturn EV-1 by GM was lease only, i wanted to own one and was unable to. what happened between the EV-1 and Tesla that made it to mass market? was there a fEV that i am not aware of that had sales numbers similar to Tesla's?
is it about the flamethrower? those already existed. So did tunnels. I guess you got me.
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