Daily Archives: 2022-05-16

The very weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option

Source: OSNews

Article note: I expected weird, and this is still next level.

In this installment: some strange things I discovered when purchasing a FreeDOS laptop from Hewlett Packard. I suspect that the audience for this will be somewhat limited but I had fun exploring this. Perhaps you, dear reader, will find a chuckle in here too.

Some background: I recently purchased a HP ZBook 17.8 G8 as I run Fedora Linux I decided to have a little fun with the OS selection and picked the FreeDOS option (Other options include Ubuntu, and various flavors of Windows 11).

I can guarantee you this will be a lot weirder than you think.

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DigitalOcean: New $4 Droplet and updated pricing

Source: Hacker News

Article note: This is a small but unfortunate price bump. Not enough to make me want to move things, but unfortunate.
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Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database

Source: Hacker News

Article note: The implementation is ...frightening... (it's using regex rewrite rules on something that isn't a regular language), but sqlite should really be the default back-end for most web stuff, it's wildly simpler to deal with and scales further than most users need.
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