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12 days agoWhen did WhatsApp start allowing signups without a phone number?
When did WhatsApp start allowing signups without a phone number?
Mint offers 32bit support, unless you’ve got a really old cpu.
Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS
Ok so what is pangolin? I’m only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.
Edit: someone doesn’t like jokes I guess?
So to provide further context, PCs have tables that can be checked to see what hardware is located where. Phones don’t have this, and if you try to query the wrong component or the right component at the wrong address, you can crash the whole device.
PCs were this way too, before PnP/PCI/ACPI tech showed up.
Loading Linux on a Pentium with a bunch of ISA cards was NOT a guaranteed win.
I wonder if the archive.org cases had any bearing on the decision.