tl;dr boot Windows. 🙄

You tell me.

It’s only called once.

Adding three extra lines to call a single command makes it clean? Remind me not to hire you.

Why would you make a one line command in to a function 🤣

Hope you didn’t pay much.

This should have been a dm. Bad bot.

Mauve Screen of Suffering

My ad blocker turned off at some point and I loaded that link without it… holy shit was that obnoxious. The ads moved things around, blocked the article, autoplayed videos… and that’s what we’re supposed to be appreciative of and turn off our ad blockers for? 🤢

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But really, try booting a portable version of Windows like it’s a CD or USB in the VM.

So edgy.

Try using doas maybe

When I had no (useful) Internet where I was living a few years ago I would save a list of packages to download from Synaptic to a drive and then when I was somewhere I could I would download them, then when I got home I could plug in the drive and update/install them.

More time than trying to shoehorn a defunct package for an abandoned codec in to a random player which even if it works would only be a temporary kludge not a fix?

Yeah you’re not actually interested in listening to what’s being said. Bye.

To answer the question as given:

https://lyonsden.net/getting-an-amiga-a1200-online-part-1-adding-a-network-card/

https://hackaday.com/2016/12/17/apple-ii-web-server-written-in-basic/

Because. The answer is because.

And if you have a machine that is more capable than those by default then the OS software artificially disabling its use is pretty fucked up.

There’s a big difference between dropping a driver and dropping the ability to have the driver. I’ve compiled plenty of drivers.

Go add a 2.4 era driver to a modern kernel and see how that goes.

But they’ll stop working due to artificial causes.