The interesting thing is this was apparently the portrau=it that won the original design conpetition in 1932.

I thought the goal was the two nuzzling with ^ . ^ faces. So cute.

I wonder if it might be an unreproducible moment in history.

I suspect the Cambrian explosion of X11 window managers came from two things:

• Propriatery and former-propriatery systems with unique look and feel (see, for example, Open Look/olvwm) There was also a tendency to copy any style you could (WindowMaker copied NeXTStep, IceWM mocked OS/2, and when those cute QNX demo discs came out, within days there were lookalike themes). It feels like the last major outside inspirations, MacOS and Win1,1 are converging on almost intrrchangeable insipidness.

• The 1990s/2000s customization era. Machines were finally powerful enough to do mildly nifty things, but still attainable by hobbyists gluing together pixmaps and this bred stuff like Enlightnment E16 or Afterstep

Do these forces still exist in 2024? It seems like Unix Porn today is a bunch of neokvetch windows without even a titlebar to provide a personal statement.

I think I’d be a lot more excited about Wayland if I felt like I can get a compositor that matches my tastes.

I want to iconify things to the desktop, not relying on a taskbar-alike. Nothing seems to offer that. Hell, the taskbar is often a third party program.

I want to double-click to shade. Labwc just added this, a feature that X11 window managers have been offering since the 90s.

I want an aesthetic that’s got real depth and skeumorphism, rather that flat and featureless. Maybe something offers that, but there are plenty of X11 choices that have beveled buttons out of the box.

The charm of Unix systems used to be flexibility, buy Wayland seems to be an extinction-level event for traditional window management. Nothing fills the gap of FVWM or WindowMaker. But gosh, I can get 92 flavours of tiling compositor and windows that ripple when dragged.

I had a similar positive experience with Gamescope, which tamed a game that freaked out every time I moved the moude onto the other monitor.

Maybe Wayland’s healthy place is as a secondary window system you launch inside your normal X11 session.

So the Nippon Ham company is starting with sausages with bones, and working their way up to the perfectly round cylinder of roasted meat with a large straight bone through the centre that anime and video games have teased us with for decades.

Gotta start somewhere.

There are some canned choices like “50 newest tracks”.

I have a similar one, different seller and possibly submodel, but also a refurb HGST 12T enterprise drive. It sounds like I left a soda on my desk most of the time, subtly popping and ticking.

Of course! I had always heard the issue was low water levels, but you can clearly see the reactor has not enough R and too much B. G levels look all right.

Damn Polychrome Sync never works right.

When they port FVWM.

Aside from a few skins, there are no cosmetic options-- getting to Level 90, your characters look exactly the same as Level 1. I wonder if that causes the designers to lean ornate-- since they don’t tease the Solid Iridescent Mithril Armour with RGB later, they have to pick something sparkly to please the audience that doesn’t want plain uniforms.

Not even a picture of Itto? You’re not trying.

Sometimes the appeal of socketed RAM is to just buy the bottom model and upgrade.

When I bought my Thinkpad E585 (wouldn’t reccomend), it was like $50 cheaper to buy a second 4GB DIMM from Crucial, and like $100 less to take the 500GB spinning rust option and add your own NVMe.

Yeah, it’s surreal. Back when the Oregon Trail Generation got their first 486 class PCs with 14.4 dialup, all the safety guides were about “never use your real name.”

The fear of some theoretical elite AOL pedophile corps and being able to age out of an embarrassing “ponygirl1987” account actually made good prep for the idea of “you have multiple identities for different contexts” and “keep personal and work stuff isolated.”

It almost seems like Israel demonstrates the “tyranny of the majority” problem often attributed to democracies.

To service a majority audience, it was all too easy to do stuff like expanding settlements, violently overreact to low-level protest, refuse to negotiate towards a two-state solution, and bottleneck a free-standing Palestinian economy. Of course this marginalizes and radicalizes the minority until it blows up.

Historians can analyze if there was animosity and an occupier mindset immediately from 1948 onwards, when and how much, but it’s academic. The situation today is not conducive to constructive resolutions, plus a significant part of the electorate that LIKES it that way.

They probably needed some stronger constitutional guardrails to present this sort of abuse. But again, door open, cows escaped already.

Sort of a pivot, but The Orville did a great bit about replicators and how if you dropped them into a society like 21st century Earth, they’d just end up coopted by the rich and further strain society.

We can’t even have future nice things thanks to capitalism.

My porn works differently. All the male characters turned into catboys.

Try Rachnera.

There was a 15 minute window where the 735 was the best Socket A chipset on the market.

Unfortunately, they couldn’t get past cheapo ECS mainboards.

Three skulls is hardly “full of skulls”, unless he lives in a 90-square-foot Manhattan closet.

This is just like those liars at Keebler with “full of chocolate chips” all over again.