Peertube has been updated to version 8.1.3 today. Also, this week Nodebb was updated to version 4.9.1. With this latest version, we have been experimenting with the federalization of the forum but it is very fragile so for now we will stay as we are.

Regarding the museum, it is now possible to download files individually, some CDROMs of Windows 95 and 98 have been added to expand the types of media we have and several improvements/corrections have been made to the search engine and file explorer. In addition, the indexing of extractable files has been completed. We have about 4.5 million files of which, just over half a million have been processed to extract their media (images, videos, midi, etc). This means that the files of all the magazine CDROMs are already processed and the extracted ones and the new media (Windows 95/98) are left. From now on, the development of the museum will take a back seat and will only receive minor changes and new content.

Regarding the network infrastructure, OVH has messed it up with billing issues and we have been without VPS for two or three days already (despite having paid until January 2027). I have a lot to say about this, but I will summarize it a lot: I have never seen a technical service so brutally incompetent, and I have no problem saying that because the negligence is of epic proportions. As soon as I have the opportunity (either because they return the money of the months not consumed or because the contracted services end), I will run away from there. So at the moment and until they solve the problem, all traffic is going directly through my ISP.

Hello @jordiqui. No, with that background it won't fit.

A couple of things: I see that the background changes depending on the window size: sometimes it's an image (large window) and other times a solid color (small window) where part of the left panel also disappears:

I see that the mobile version doesn't work well: strange things happen with the size of the panels.

And if the window is very large (in my case, maximized to 4K with 150% scaling), the two right panels overlap and get cut off:

From the logo's point of view, does the background matter: do you want to put it on the black background of the chat or right on the chat, whose background could be a texture or a solid color depending on the window size?

@_Neptunno_ Thanks for the links. I didn't even know those cables existed. The only thing that works for me are physical leds because they are headless machines.

Before you wrote the answer, I bought this (it hasn't arrived yet), with which I hope to be able to connect the controller. I'm also taking a risk because there's no 100% certainty that it will work at x1 (according to what I read around, it should), but well. Also, a fifth SATA would save me a USB drive, so it's the solution that best fits what I need. Performance is not a problem because they are mechanical drives.

If I see that it doesn't work either, I'll try with the cables you mentioned.

What I want to do is more on the side of the geek thing than of practical utility but as you say, it's a matter of niche and besides having little variety, the prices are not cheap (50€ a mid-range controller and 6€ each cable... a pass).

The proof of concept for the fourth (and final) phase of the file browser is implemented. The idea here, more than adding pure functionality, was to be able to demonstrate if this was possible. And it is possible!

It consists of being able to run executables from the browser. The system automatically detects the type of executable and launches it in MS-DOS 6.22 or Windows 95/98. In addition, something else related to all this has been wanted to be tested that for the moment is limited to some formats of images and sounds: being able to visualize the files in native software. For the moment, gifs/jpegs can be seen in Internet Explorer 3/4 and BMPs in Windows 95 Paint and the three formats in Imaging. In addition,.wav can be listened to in the Windows sound recorder.

Some examples (to hear sound, you have to click on the emulation screen):

Example 0: Demo of Tomb Raider II Gold
Example 1: Demo of Theme Hospital for DOS
Example 2: Demo of Theme Hospital for Windows 95.
Example 3: Demo of International Rally Championship (- to brake, key to the right of the Ñ to accelerate, z/x to turn):
Example 4: Demo of Duken Nukem 3D (do not select sound card because they did not include the audio files and it fails)
Example 5: Demo of Epic MegaPinball.

The Windows 95 emulations also come in two flavors: with 32-bit and 8-bit color depth, so that you can experiment with palettes in images and improve compatibility in software. In this way, you have Windows 95 at 8 and 32 bits and Windows 98 SE at 32 bits, so you have several ways in case of finding incompatibilities.

Example 5: Jpeg image from Internet Explorer 3/4
Example 6: Bmp image from MS Paint
Example 7: Sound from the Windows 95 sound recorder

In the previous version of the museum, it was possible to emulate some MS-DOS programs, but there was a very strong condition: the program had to be contained in a.zip and that implied preparing individual emulations, which was extremely costly in time. Now, thanks to HLFSv2 (Hardlimit File System!), the flexibility is absolute and each file can be handled individually, wherever it is and at an amazing speed. And that without counting that it breaks the MS-DOS limit and expands, in theory, to any x86 system (there are still kilometers of fabric to cut here). With this, we have already surpassed the functionality of the previous version by far and as far as I know, we are the only ones who can run programs this way.

This topic is still green and will be polished very little by little: for example, from MS-DOS and Windows 98 it is not possible to read from cylinder 1024 of the disk (you will find read errors in very large folders: >500MB): if this happens to you with Windows 98, use 95. In addition, the virtual drive only supports files in 8.3 format and other issues.

In another order of things, from the file browser, it is already possible to search for files. Searches are in the complete file system until a specific medium/disk is visited. From there, searches are narrowed down to the medium or directory recursively. The search, unlike multimedia, orders by number of repetitions, that is, the most popular files appear first. A selection of "media" is also added in the search itself.

With this, I am already satisfied and this season of intense development of the museum closes. From now until the end of the month, changes will be consolidated and documented and there will be no major new features (beyond small fixes).

The museum, as a platform, is already defined.

Now the big thing will come from the content, regardless of the fact that there is much room for improvement in everything.

PS: The indexing of the media is 33%, so in another two weeks, practically everything will be.

Sure there's someone somewhere really pissed off about this. But we'll never know because you can't get online anymore.

Excellent Plasma 6 update The improvements in customization and the OCR integrated in Spectacle really increase productivity. Features like individual volume control per application demonstrate how modern systems continue to evolve to offer a better user experience.

Nvidia breaking funding promises, Microsoft losing 10% in stock market due to poor outlook for Azure and its AI investments, Oracle laying off 30,000 workers because banks have pulled back on funding for AI data centers, Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley trying to cover their backs on debt they've taken on to fund AI data centers... this is starting to smell a little fishy.