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[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know what I'm doing

don't worry, neither do most of us

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

One of the more significant revelations of adulthood is gradually realizing nobody tells you how everything works, you just have to find out one way or another

What a fuckin scam

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

well that's because most people are short-sighted and can't afford to speak the truth and go into philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

I thought this was a bit post but then I saw the @ and now I can't tell if it's a smug-explain moment

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago

how do I be normal??

That's the neat part. You don't. Welcome to Hexbear, where everybody is some fusion of neurodivergent gay trans communists. It rules. arm-Lrainbow-hasarm-R

But you should go to sleep.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

how do I be normal?

Don't.

(I don't think there's any point in attempting to be normal. Don't know about you, but personally I always fail at it anyway, even if I try. So why bother? That energy can be used for more interesting things.)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

give'em a couple of days before they realize there ain't anyone normal in this place

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I legit didn't know x87 was a real thing until you made that ama post a few days ago lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Happy to have increased your computer history knowledge! meow-floppy
If you mostly touch modern computers, it's not surprising that you didn't know, because Intel's x87 floating-point co-processor is mostly a thing of the past. Since the i486, the floating-point has been integrated into the CPU rather than being a separate chip. You can still issue x87 floating-point instructions to the i486, or even to a modern Intel CPU, though! Nowadays, if you want floating-point stuff, you (or the compiler that compiles your program) will probably use SSE instructions instead. But I heard that some applications where the precision is very important still use x87 because it internally represents the numbers as 80 bit instead of 64 bit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I forget; was it the 80387 or the 80487 that was just a full-blown DX (as in, FPU included on the die) version of its 80_86SX counterpart with only subtle differences in the pinout so it could disable the onboard main/SX processor socket?

Edit: Found it! It was the i487 SX:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkZz4uwcuQ

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 days ago

Welcome. Just remember, "normal" is a setting on the dryer. Just do you, that's good enough

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I spent most of my youth trying to assimilate in one way or another. I am now middle-aged and entirely convinced that everything in my life would be better if I'd gone all-in on weirdness and rebellion from the get-go. Don't trust the assimilated, they will betray you patrick-lenin

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I almost never know what I'm doing but have grown accustomed to pretending lea-finger-guns

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Most of us are queer and neurodivergent. You're in good company because there is no "normal" here, and it's proudly on full display.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Step 1: Go to sleep. Sleep is very important.

Step 2: Reply/Read when you wake up. We're not going anywhere :3

Step 3: Make even more friends

Repeat and adjust steps as needed. And don't be normal, forgot to add that.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

im way too autistic to try and be normal and i fit in pr well here so you're probably good

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago

Simply keep posting

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

When in doubt, just post beanis

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

wall-flipped peekaboo psst over here

Half the users here were born c.1990, and only a few of the Big Posters here were born post-2000 (including me)

There’s gonna be a rift soon, a lotta the posters radicalized by Iraq/the recession/Occupy Wall Street are gonna be busy raising kids and etc, they’re gonna have to pass down their shitposting responsibilities to the (relatively few) zoomers here

You’re in between, you’ve gotta facilitate the transition between the old order (the ex-somethingawfullers inspired by dril and his offshoots) and the new one (an imminent yet currently disorganized coalition of indie game fanartists, raver puppygirls, ppl with crushes on fictional robots, etc) that hasn’t even joined yet. Not drafting you into anything but we’d appreciate the help

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

Leftist Boomers solidarity Leftist Zoomers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

This is MY alley to lurk in ya geezer smh

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You haven't even met a 10th of us lol. Mostly just be silly, we love that shit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I can do silly! My main YouTube channel is centered around silly.

(I'm hoping that plugging it here is socially acceptable, I have no idea, but I figure it's relevant?) My channel trailer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

Check out the megathreads pinned at the top of the feed. They're themed chats and tend to be a more chill, cozy posting environment

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Just sing a song hey diddly ho

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

There's both hard and soft rules depending on where you hop in. Follow those and the rest clicks fairly easy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Idk I just be intolerably weird all the time, seems to work ok catgirl-peace