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I personally miss the magical era of Wordart, MS Works, Clippy, Desktop Destroying Screensaves, Winamp skins and ICQ The unbounded creativity and pushing of bo
by gmerc 3y ago
I personally miss the magical era of Wordart, MS Works, Clippy, Desktop Destroying Screensaves, Winamp skins and ICQ
The unbounded creativity and pushing of boundaries of that era has given way to a/b tested, reduced to the boring mean, slick and lifeless software that has removed all the joy, the discovery, the experimentation in favor of maximally enshittified sludge of boring productivity.
The current experimentation phase of AI has tiny sparks of it, until they will be snuffed out again.
“Professional” in this context is boring, average and dystopian really, a sign of the time where our Personal Computer has become an extension of corporate productivity rather than our creative playground.
- josephg 3y agoI agree. I installed serenityos the other day and I love it. The vibe is so - that era. And I love that the only applications that will be built for it are applications the community makes for fun.
- deskamess 3y ago> Desktop Destroying Screensaves. There is a guy on YT who does these mini-anime (multi episode) of stick figures fighting each other. The opening sequence happens on a PC desktop against a virus. It is just amazing and that whole sequence as an animated gif would make a great screen saver. Now if it could be made dynamic so it works on the existing screen (like xmelt) it would be great. I would actually settle for the original (non dynamic) one. The one thing you would miss is the sound effects which are also great.