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Firmware. (seemel.ink)

submitted 1 year ago by b4dm4rk@seemel.ink to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Lachy@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought this was common knowledge. I distinctly remember this being taught in a basic high school computing class back in the 90’s.

[–] Doug@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So in the 90s I had different computer based classes in high school.

There was a "computers" class, which is probably the closest to what you're talking about, in which we mostly learned how to use Microsoft Works.

I also was fortunate enough to have some programming classes. We started out with QBasic and then the more advanced level was visual basic.

None of these discussed firmware. If it came up at all it was probably a casual side conversation because someone bricked something trying to update it.

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We started out with QBasic and then the more advanced level was visual basic.

fun times with gorilla.bas? :)

[–] Doug@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I did have a classmate try to replicate Simon in QBasic but he kept needing the input reversed.

I told him the "feature not a bug" line and suggested he call it NOMIS

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Had to look that up - seen it before but never played. Sorry for the late reaction, lemmy.world had enough server problems that I didn't see my notifications in > 2 weeks...

[–] Doug@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No worries. Lemmy feels way more casual than Reddit anyway and I got notifications for months old comments there from time to time

[–] raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now if only I could find a way to open - from my notification about your response - your comment in the context of the community - but on my own instance. I have tried clicking on "Show context" -> links to the home server of the community, where I can not post / respond. Clicking anywhere else:

Username: takes me to your profile
Community: takes me to my instance's view of the community in which we are communicating
Post name: takes me to my instance's view of the thread in which we are communicating, but of course without context to the comment
link symbol: does nothing
Show context: see above, takes me to the correct place, on the wrong instance
Timestamp: does nothing

Anyways, I like lemmy a lot, but I think with the recent nasty defederation announcement at lemmy.world from hexbear I'll have to find another instance as home...

[–] Doug@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

FWIW I home at midwest.social. It's not strictly for the Midwest US but you'll see a lot of stuff for that region there. It's also left leaning and I think the only instances they've defederated so far have been for extremism.

I'm also using jerboa on my phone and from my inbox there's a speech bubble button which lets me make this response from my inbox.

I don't know if either of these things will help you but I figured I'd offer them just in case they did.