I am currently watching a computer compile programs very slowly while wondering how in the fuck I ever used a similar system as my primary computer doing the exact same thing six or seven years ago and thought it was fine
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in reply to @lapisnev's post:
Fond memories of compiling from stage 3 clear back in 2003.
I got a lot more reading done back then. Thank heavens for Lynx.
I set this machine up from a stage4 taken from a way newer machine and I nonchalantly ran emerge -e @world twice trying to get rid of all the x86-64-v3 instructions before actually sitting down and figuring out how to find the last few packages that were missed because it would take less than a day for each run
If I had to emerge -e @world on the target then every run would have taken, oh, a week or so maybe, because oh my God 4 GB of RAM really doesn't go as far as it used to anymore
circa 2007 i was compiling the base macports install on a 400mhz G3. this was going to take two days, so i turned the monitor off and let it run overnight and while I was at school.
I came home from school to discover that my mother had turned everything off in my room, directly at the power sockets. that went well
haha, I tried to install things from pkgsrc in 2015 on a PowerBook G4 867 and the only reason something like this didn't happen to me again (because it happened multiple times over the years) is that I put the laptop out of the way on a tile floor that was really good at sinking heat and it sat there silently churning for the day or two it would take to hit another failure I'd need to come back and resolve (I never managed to compile the program I wanted)