Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

jantin ,

Wait... It's not "firm" as in "company that made the stuff"? FIRMware = the official software a firm pushes to patch things they make

arandomthought ,

I thought exactly the same thing...

kog ,

Firmware is just software that runs in a different place.

Source: me, I write firmware sometimes at work.

Nuuskis9 ,

I''d like to know that where spyware is located?

SatyrSack ,
@SatyrSack@lemmy.one avatar

Windows

wren ,
@wren@lemmy.ml avatar

<whispers> it's in the walls

fubo ,

By the way, "joystick" was kinda rude back in the day, but nobody even notices now.

cybervseas ,

What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?

fubo ,

No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.

ChapolinColoradoNZ ,

It could have been worse. It could have been named enjoystick...

fubo ,

It was named by pilots. It's in the, um, cockpit.

MarmaladeMermaid ,

Can someone ELI5 what firmware actually is though? I kind of knew it was half way between, but i don’t know what that looks like.

fuzzybee ,

Hardware is the physical part of computer.

Software is the code that runs on the computer to do the thing you want to do.

Firmware is the code that is installed on the hardware itself, usually in some sort of permanent or semi-permanent memory to make the hardware work.

sloonark ,
@sloonark@lemm.ee avatar

I'm a high school teacher and I recently was discussing this. Protip: don't talk to 14 year olds about how if something is in between hard and soft, it's firm. 🙄

CascadianBeam ,

There’s a surprisingly more expansive demographic that pro tip applies to.

steakmeout ,

Tip

Hehe

rubythulhu ,
@rubythulhu@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

You called out “tip”, but you left “expansive” just lying there helpless?

MudSkipperKisser ,

Are emojis acceptable here? Because I’d like to insert the hand raise one here

Deez ,
@Deez@lemm.ee avatar

I think yes, let’s make a new culture of restrained emoji use 🙌

ramplay ,

Oh were they referring to praise hands? I thought they meant 🙋

Deez ,
@Deez@lemm.ee avatar

I was high fiving their raised hand

Doug ,

👍

the_itsb ,

I'm 41f (going on 13 at times), and this is why my husband hates(loves) having me around the shop - all the mechanical everything is full of euphemisms and innuendo. "mating surfaces" 😂

kog ,

I feel like you should really have seen that one coming.

LinusWorks4Mo ,
@LinusWorks4Mo@kbin.social avatar

coming for sure

TwanHE ,

Half-chubware

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • technology@lemmy.world
  • random
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines
    •