For example, when iterating over text, you can’t tell it to just give you a view/pointer into the existing memory of the text. Instead, it copies each snippet of text you want to process into new memory.
As someone used to embedded programming, this sounds horrific.
Nope, it runs FreeRTOS, but it’s still cool that I can build an internet-connected smart device in a package the size of your big toe nail using open software.
Vintage?? I had just started middle school, that was like five years ago…
May I present the ESP32?
https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32
Us hobbyists have been playing with it for years. Dual core too.
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Or use a browser that’s so featureless that exploits don’t have anything to exploit, such as Lynx. The rest should be handled by any decent firewall in front of it.
It was created in a time when physical restrictions on access to the machine was enough. If you weren’t meant to be in the lab, somebody found out real quick.
Wasn’t just that, it was everything. DOS, early Windows, etc all didn’t give a rat’s ass about security. In 1986 you could just go over to your friends house and turn on their machine and just go through all their shit laid bare. I don’t even think we had BIOS passwords at the time. At least the machines I used didn’t. It was a wild time.
Marilyn Manson?
I use Debian btw
Why not tackle this from the opposite end, where instead of removing things and potentially breaking stuff, you add what you need instead? Debian is what Mint and Ubuntu are based on, and you can install a very bare bones system from the start.
Trackballs are good for Pong and Breakout. That’s about it.
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If this was 1988, I’d agree with you, but I didn’t buy a 12 core CPU and modern GPU so that I could program in 80 column text mode. To my fellow Linux users: it’s okay to use a GUI. Really. True power lies in being able to leverage that AND the terminal at the same time.
gcc, an IDE, and make are my only must-haves. Those might not be your “must-haves” though.
It’s eventually going to have to be stored in plaintext somewhere. Where are you then putting the encryption key for the encryption keys and how do you start the chain of decryption without the first key?
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I’m sorry. I didn’t realize people were still regularly using such constrained systems. Honest. I’ve homebuilt my PCs for the last 15 years.
I mean it’s 2024. I regularly download archives that are several tens or even over 100 GB and then completely forget they’re sitting on my drive, because I don’t notice it when the drive is 4TB. Last time I cared about 10GB here and there was in the late-2000s.
1980s: Hey guise, computers are now cheap and small enough that you can run an entire system and all your programs on your own machine at home instead of having to dial in to the mainframe!
2010s: No, we’re putting it all back on the servers, you get a thin client.
Windows also still runs software unchanged
from 20 or more years ago, while software on Linux has to be constantly updated to use new libraries and APIs, else it’s considered “dead” and very soon will no longer run or even compile in its current form.
It has a lot of baggage that Linux doesn’t need to worry about. Up until Vista, you could even still natively run 16 bit DOS software from the 80s.