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  1. @golemwire

    Yeah, Macintosh System 7.1 or so is pretty peak #UI.

    You can also spin up a VM for, let's say, Ubuntu 10.04 pretty easily. Whatever was the last Gnome 2.x Ubuntu release.

    Also, some distros and probably BSDs have #TDE, the #TrinityDesktopEnvironment, which is based on KDE 3.x, I believe.

    You could also just try Mate, but I actually prefer old Gnome 2 to Mate in side-by-side comparisons.

  2. RE: fosstodon.org/@golemwire/11507

    I'm starting a Fluxer (Discord alternative) group for my computing environment :D

    Invite link: fluxer.gg/I2P03SBv

  3. @golemwire ah yes, the good old "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy … Classic Microsoft.

    #EEE

  4. @rl_dane
    Why:
    (Context: part of fosstodon.org/@golemwire/11500 and fosstodon.org/@golemwire/11502 )
    I love the *form factor*. Large enough to label and hold comfortably without losing them, or scratching them like discs.
    I know floppies are very outdated, being slow and very low-capacity, but I'm mostly storing text. I was able to get 38 in apparently good condition for a dollar at a garage sale, and my trusty (sorta, it's old!) Dell had an FDD module available for not too much money.

  5. @golemwire

    I wouldn't be a #Texan if I didn't like #DrPepper, but I only have it occasionally, and usually diet. ;)

  6. @kgoetz @alerque @skroobler I still have one and I use it regularly while at college. It's the Dell . I have a floppy disk drive in the module bay, which I use for taking college notes.

    @256 @frameworkcomputer

  7. @256 Aaand I've never heard of them. :/

    It's like an earlier, failed I guess? attempt at what @frameworkcomputer does.

  8. @256 Aaand I've never heard of them. :/

    It's like an earlier, failed I guess? attempt at what @frameworkcomputer does.

    #Framework #FrameworkComputer

  9. @256 Aaand I've never heard of them. :/

    It's like an earlier, failed I guess? attempt at what @frameworkcomputer does.

    #Framework #FrameworkComputer

  10. @256 Aaand I've never heard of them. :/

    It's like an earlier, failed I guess? attempt at what @frameworkcomputer does.

    #Framework #FrameworkComputer

  11. "There’s a unique kind of respect for someone who treats the machine like a tailored instrument rather than a black box"

    Quote from (XformerlyknownasTwitter link, sorry) x.com/GenAIDL/status/205137755 .

    See this website. melsloop.com/

  12. CW: Politics; video with excessive profanity

    Just learned about this Hasan Piker guy.

    x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/20

    He's a Twitch streamer. That's a video of him promoting political violence. "Let the streets soak in their f[***]ng red capitalist blood"

    An article on him, hoping the Democrats don't become a leftist version of :
    thedispatch.com/article/hasan-

  13. Copy Fail: Every distro from 2017 to 2026 is vulnerable. Gives a root shell.

    Stuff like this makes me upset about current tech. It would be better if OS codebases were smaller. They're unmanageably large nowadays.

    This was surfaced with , in reportedly about *an hour of scanning*! xint.io

  14. @Gammitin Shaped kinda like a .

  15. RE: mastodon.online/@danjmcs/11648

    They also have a nice website redesign. It's a lot cleaner IMO and pretty :)

    commodore.net/

  16. RE: mastodon.social/@keyboards/116

    IDK if the was different, but I love how the had an NMI key (Non-Maskable Interrupt), the RESTORE key. That means that when you press RESTORE, an interrupt is triggered which can't be ignored in hardware by the computer. (Of course, it can be ignored in software with, I guess, an RTI instruction? #6502 )

    I've used it to mess with programs that are timing-heavy (like demos) or don't seem to have the interrupt vector set up :)

  17. and being able to return NULL when given a size of 0 is a discontinuity in design, and a mistake, IMO.

  18. @rl_dane It handled it OK, actually. Definitely slowed down :D

    I was wondering if it would give me 's warning about opening too many programs at once, when I once accidentally did the thing I did on purpose here but on Windows XP.

  19. I love the room the gives me to do advanced things.

    I think for general programming, something a lot safer is better, and I think the flexibility of C lends itself to bad patterns sometimes, but it has its place.

  20. RE: mastodon.social/@keyboards/116

    Moving Caps lock away from its modern location and replacing it with Ctrl is always a move. And I like how having the function keys on the left balances out a little the usual imbalance the introduces.

    As usual, I love the huge enter key (deserving!) but the tiny backspace is probably a deal-breaker.

  21. RE: mastodon.social/@keyboards/116

    Moving Caps lock away from its modern location and replacing it with Ctrl is always a #based move. And I like how having the function keys on the left balances out a little the usual imbalance the #numpad introduces.

    As usual, I love the huge enter key (deserving!) but the tiny backspace is probably a deal-breaker.

    #keyboards #computers

  22. RE: mastodon.social/@keyboards/116

    Imagine lugging this to your class and casually taking notes in, like, a Web development class :)