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by dansalvato 3y ago
> At that point, Cloanto started worrying that people would buy Hyperion's AmigaOS 3.2 to boot emulators and they'd lose their market for selling legal 3.1 ROMs wrapped in Amiga Forever This sort of glosses over the main point,
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by dansalvato 3y ago
WinUAE is an outstanding emulator. Amiga is already such a complicated machine before you even consider that there are ~10 official models, hundreds of peripherals, and thousands of different configurations. Toni Wilen has been involved wit
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I hear you, I regret making such a generalization, and my negatively was uncalled for. Thanks for reminding me to check myself.
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by dansalvato 3y ago
"suckless" is a perfect name for this software suite—not because of the name's literal meaning, but because they are advertising their insufferable elitism right on the tin. Yes, building software to solve a limited set of pr
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by dansalvato 3y ago
That post you linked was a crazy read, it just kept going and going. I've never really had issues with GNOME, but knowing so many users share the sentiment of it being a hostile developer environment makes me want to check out other op
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Same, I was quite happy with the adaptive cruise control on my Tesla Model 3. I decided to try enabling FSD beta, and it's basically a disaster. I've experienced it: * Get confused about its lane position and swerve around in the
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I was born in 1991 and have no perspective of the 90s techno/rave scene, but I somehow discovered Orbital around 2008, I think while looking around for electronica albums mastered in 5.1 to try out on my new surround speakers. I listen
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I recently bought an Analogue Pocket and I think it's a great piece of hardware, but I'm really not a fan of this company's business model. This page has told me nothing I actually want to know about OpenFPGA. Here's my
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by dansalvato 3y ago
The gist I linked is shared by Andrew Kelley, creator of the language. My best guess is that he rolled something similar to 'zig' and was reminded of the Zero Wing reference before deciding to take off with Zig (for great justice)
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Zig apparently got its name from this: https://gist.github.com/andrewrk/73742bf4b8ed795c85ce Just rolled the dice on 'z' + vowel + consonant + consonant until something good came up.
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I've done some experimenting with this. If a window is in focus, it occludes real-world objects, even those that are in front of the window. The real-world object becomes maybe 5% visible, so you can just barely see it. If the window i
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I've been wearing AVP extensively these past few days, experimenting with using it for all kinds of things. As of now, I don't find it more efficient or seamless at doing much of anything. 1. There is no window management whatsoev
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I do some Amiga collecting, and I recently bought an Amiga 2000 that came with a ReadySoft A-Max, and even Mac networking hardware: https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/amax This tells me there must have been decent interest
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Author here—you’re not wrong, I’ve been a gadget enthusiast my whole life, and I deliberately left in the tone that I’m trying to justify owning an Apple Vision Pro, despite its flaws. I was also serious that the flaws are part of the charm
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by dansalvato 3y ago
It’s well known that habits and mode of thinking change with environmental cues, and I find that extends to a digital environment as well. If you have a device that’s distinctly a “work” device and you’ve only ever used it for focused work,
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Things aren’t “slow” in the sense that they’re unresponsive. The UI actually feels great to use—it’s a lot of fun, it’s fluid, and it responds very well to my actions. It’s just that I’m not as fast navigating apps on the Apple Vision Pro c
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Speaking from first-hand experience, there is some latency which makes the virtual display a lot less comfortable to use, and it's capped at 60Hz. It's effectively a coat of paint over Apple's typical "screen mirroring&q
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Apple Vision Pro and ADHD(dansalva.to)
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by dansalvato 3y ago
> Yes, it's so weird how that 7 MHz thing ran a perfectly usable graphical environment with a command line shell within the GUI and all. Perhaps not as advanced as AmigaOS, but Commodore 64 famously had GEOS for a good few years in
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by dansalvato 3y ago
The Amiga I grew up with only ever had AmigaOS 1.3, but I’ve heard a lot of praise surrounding ARexx, a scripting language that I believe shipped with 2.0 and later. From the AmigaOS wiki: > The ARexx programming language can act as a ce
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I went to a high school (in the US) that was full of extremely passionate and engaging teachers. After I graduated, I had a conversation with one of them about the curriculum, and she told me that their number one job was effectively to tea
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by dansalvato 3y ago
One thing I find with Apple devices is that they have an ecosystem of extremely passionate developers, and all their other "new paradigm" platforms also initially shipped with no software (Mac, iPhone, iPad). The mainstream usage
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by dansalvato 3y ago
> I wonder what Jobs would have done. I think every "new paradigm" Apple product had similar growing pains. The Mac launched with only 128kb RAM, the iPhone lacked basic functionality and ditched physical keyboards, and the iPa
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Seems like there's a lot of criticism in the comments about this not being "simple". When "simple" is used to describe an app, it can either mean "easy to use" or "minimal infrastructure". People
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Adobe also thwarted me from daily driving Linux a few years ago when I gave it an honest attempt. I'm practically hoping that Microsoft pulls some shit to step on their toes, like develop competing products, so that Adobe has a real in
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Amiga is famous for The Juggler, an animation by Eric Graham which did exactly that in January 1986. It became an Amiga "mascot" of sorts and the animation was used to advertise the machine in computer shops, magazines, etc. Here
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I'd love to hear from people interested in a device like this to get an understanding of what they'd imagine doing with it. I'm pretty far removed from the world of hardware hacking, so my imagination is limited. Is the compl
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by dansalvato 3y ago
Here is a video about the rolling technique, I remember watching it when the technique was first pioneered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-BZ5-Q48lE In short, you hold the controller so that you have a finger resting on
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I work from home and had back pain for maybe a year. It effectively went away after I switched from a crappy budget office chair to a quality ergonomic chair. I opted for the Steelcase Leap. These chairs are over $1k new, but it seems you c
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by dansalvato 3y ago
I really like his point about how our realized future of the "robot companion" is so lifeless and utilitarian compared to what we used to imagine. I guess it makes sense given how the adoption of voice assistants predated widespre

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