Rough life inside a cave.

From the soydev extension.

Next: Palantir thinks high school might be a waste of time, so they are hiring middle schoolers.

Wait...

I have it on my to-do list to install FreeDOS on bare metal to set up a retro gaming box. Tried once, but for some reason the installer failed writing to disk. Anyway, if anyone is making new FreeDOS games, I'll gladly pay for them, and it'll give me an excuse to go down that avenue again.

If enabling CSM in your BIOS isn't an option or isn't enough for FreeDOS, there is a translation layer that can get it to run on UEFI hardware: https://github.com/FlyGoat/CSMWrap

That had not occurred to me and I'm also not sure. FreeDOS was able to boot just fine into the live environment. It was the disk part that failed.

OK, I just posted a comment saying FreeDOS will no longer run on hardware because of lack of BIOS support, but that might change things I guess. Hope it can be made to work.

Another big problem for FreeDOS is the lack of sound card support. I do not know if anyone has solved that yet.

For old DOS games and programs, there is this: https://github.com/crazii/SBEMU

It's so old, that the 3D icons and window borders will be new again when 1.0 is released. Talk about some long-term vision.

But jokes aside, I always enjoy reading about custom OSes.

You joke but the first thing I thought when I saw the icons was that they were nice. Flat everything has run its course.

And the exact same thing can be done in C++.

My Emacs setup typically involves:

- An LSP: https://emacs-lsp.github.io/lsp-mode/tutorials/CPP-guide/ - Neotree to browse the file system: https://github.com/jaypei/emacs-neotree - Awesome-tab for tabs: https://github.com/manateelazycat/awesome-tab

If you want more, look at the extensions section of the LSP page and then go down the rabbit hole.

I likewise do not use Doom or any of the bundled variants because I want full control and understanding of my config. But those variants are still useful to learn what's out there and selectively add things to your mix.

Using tabs requires so much discipline imo. I just end up having 2000 tabs open, and so I chose to not have tabs at all.

Videos on that page have more information than the post's link.

Yeah, that is a lot more insightful than Synadia's marketing spew, thanks.

The BDFL point is particularly interesting to me having followed C++ for almost two decades and having been disenfranchised by the inconsistency of the design. I am more of the belief now that a BDFL is the right model for programming language design, particularly one that isn't insular and listens to feedback, but upholds their vision for the language above all else.

(this was originally a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45703746 before we merged the threads)