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i have been waiting for this one for so long and i am so excited to get through it. phoenix hyperspace is so beautiful.

this is one of the few youtube series that has me honest to god cheering when there's been a new upload. very excited for this one 😁

Thanks for putting together this series! It's a strange combination of entertaining to watch and horrifying to witness what strange amalgamations companies came up with to solve a minor issue.

I love the idea of Hyperspace so much and would actually pay for it to offer a much more robust dual-boot experience that lets me flip operating systems quickly. Would it be useful? Probably not! But it's cool anyways!

Too bad AMI and Insyde more or less own the UEFI/BIOS market at this point and have no interest in doing anything remotely interesting

man, this was so fun to watch. I couldn't help but be reminded of the "x86 Option ROM on AArch64" work, an in my opinion even worse travesty of computing.

the original post was a delicious slow descent into madness and the movie adaptation didn't disappoint 👏

How perverse is it of me to completely and absolutely want a bare metal hypervisor that has a weird wrapper around it so I can only boot that and then run between each of the host OS kinda like this implementation. I've been trying to work out why it's been on my mind again recently and it turns out this series has been why. Love it very much

Wait, does this thing have tetris, or Tetris™️? There's no way that Phoenix would have shipped a generic block game that infringes on the Very Valuable IP rights of The®️ Tetris©️ Company™️.

Great video! The whole thing is wild but I think the most cursed part is the file transfer between OSes. This is strongly in the “shouldn’t work at all” category.
I think the “safest” way to make it work would be to preallocate a big file on the NTFS partition, and write the modification journal to this file from Linux.
Linux at that time had a built-in NTFS driver that allowed write access but only for modifying bytes in a file: no file creation/deletion/resizing. Since this does not modify NTFS data structures at all (unless the driver fails to reliably locate the file data…), it should “work”.
Of course, this assumes that the NTFS metadata is consistent when Linux takes over. I’m pretty sure Windows flushes writes to disk before going to sleep (to avoid corruption if power is lost during sleep) so that is probably the case.
It also assumes that Windows does not have the journal file in its file read cache; this would mess up the journal data upon resume. This is not a safe assumption since there is an antivirus on the thing…

holy shit, until about three months ago I had that exact HP laptop sitting around in my “to be recycled” pile, after using it as a backup and testbed system for a few years. I had no idea that’s what the key with the globe icon was supposed to be for; I assumed it was supposed to load a web browser in the currently booted OS but that it needed a keyboard driver to work properly or something

the original hard drive had been replaced by the Goodwill Computer Center we bought it at in 2018-ish (RIP to that location), so the original partitions were long gone, and I never bothered downloading the QuickWeb installer from HP because it sounded like HP bloatware and I didn’t realize that this is what it actually was. it got re-donated to a different Goodwill back in April (I think), and I’m feeling like I had absolutely the worst timing

so like do you actually have that Casio keyboard (for the OS boot sequence music) or is that clipped from like a Homestar cartoon or something?

I actually really like the Hyperspace OS layout. Give it more customization and flexibility that would come with modern hardware and the widgets seem like they fit better on a laptop with a bigger screen with a real keyboard than on Android. Kind of a shame this design couldn't get a foothold.

Using terms like "memory" as a handy shorthand to describe a function is all fine and good until you start gaslighting your CPU.