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by lproven 9mo ago
Ooh! Can I join in? I'll throw in a few of the billions I made when I read this paper by "Satoshi Nakamoto" in 2009 and decided to turn over my dozen SETI@home machines to mining his imaginary internet money. I wanna sponsor
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I wrote it up on my blog, and was going to follow it up with another post about all the annoyances in my first full week, but they were so petty I didn't bother. May we have a link, please?
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I still don't see GNU/Linux desktops on sale Oh come on. Play fair. You are perhaps the single HN commentator whose input I most respect, because so many of your opinions overlap my own... But that is not fair or right. GNU
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by lproven 9mo ago
This is quite interesting. As before, what you find is the reverse of what I find. > I've used Xfce quite a lot in the past and quite honestly most of the "customisation" in it is confusing to use and poorly thought out. I
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by lproven 9mo ago
And me.
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by lproven 9mo ago
I ran it in 1MB. :-) And it was fast and responsive, too. Soon afterwards I bought a Psion 3 which ran a multitasking GUI OS on an 8086 in 256 kB of RAM. That space was shared with file storage in a RAMdisc. https://phonedb.net&#
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I have an ancient laptop from 2008 with 4GB of ram that runs a modern KDE desktop Try Alpine Linux, with Xfce which can do most of the same things. Then enable swap compression -- add this to the end of the kernel line in your bootload
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I am glad for the RAM prices, maybe this will teach a new generation on how to care about their data structures again. I have been thinking that exact same thought recently. I hope prices stay elevated for a few years, so people lear
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by lproven 9mo ago
Ye gods, that's a lot. I run Xfce on Alpine on plain old ext4 and get 200MB or so used.
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by lproven 9mo ago
> I find Gnome tends to expose me to less nonsense. IMHO, I find the reverse. It feels like a phone/tablet interface. It's bigger and uses way more disk and memory, but it gives me less UI, less control, less customisation, tha
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by lproven 9mo ago
> Much of a modern Linux desktop e.g. runs inside one of multiple not very well optimized JS engines A couple of years ago I saw a talk by Sophie Wilson, the designer of the ARM chip. She had been amused by someone saying there was an AR
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by lproven 9mo ago
> Windows 95 on a 386 CPU with enough RAM was alright. I benchmarked it for PC Pro Magazine when it came out. We had to borrow a 4MB 386SX from a friend of the editor's, as we had nothing that low-end left in the labs. In our standa
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by lproven 9mo ago
:-D
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by lproven 9mo ago
Remarkable. Thanks for that!
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by lproven 9mo ago
Ooh, WinCE -- I'd forgotten about that, but then, I've been actively trying to. ;-) Those are good points, and I can't argue with them.
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by lproven 9mo ago
Discourse is less of a PITA than Discord, but only marginally. It's still a fugly web forum. For productive low-noise discussions, I favour mailing lists. Anyone who can't suss out how to participate on mailing lists probably has
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by lproven 9mo ago
> RISC OS had a recognizable task bar around 1987 Absolutely not the same thing -- and I bought my first Archimedes in 1989. It's a bar and it contains icons, but it does not have: * a hierarchical app launcher at one end * buttons
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by lproven 9mo ago
> Ubuntu Linux decided to change their desktop environment away from GNOME for no reason Oh, there absolutely were reasons. I covered them here: https://www.theregister.com/Print/2013/06/03/thank_micro
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by lproven 10mo ago
> I'm inclined to think Christianity on paper is "the best" of the Abrahamic religions Abrahamic? Maybe. I have studied comparative religion somewhat -- more than the vast majority of religious people -- and the least u
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by lproven 10mo ago
> specifically what about the Bible they found resonant A valid point. I'm not interested, myself, but this is an interesting question. My upbringing was very vaguely Church of England Protestant. I read very fast and read a large c
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by lproven 10mo ago
The problem is this: There was existing UI for this. It's called IBM CUA and it's been around for about 40 years now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access It worked in Windows 2 and 3 and ever
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by lproven 10mo ago
Cites my employers, the Register, albeit with a typo and no link. « Oracle and Sun fingered for Sidekick fiasco https://www.theregister.com/2009/10/19/sidekick_rac/ Just think what they'll do to Mic
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by lproven 10mo ago
> do you really want your operating system's shell written in slow ass Javascript? What, like GNOME Shell you mean?
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by lproven 10mo ago
Here you go: https://pearos.xyz/ "Liquid glass" and all.
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by lproven 10mo ago
> Wow they ported Windows Millennium Edition to Linux?? Aw, come on. WinME had the exact same UI as Win2000, and for a lot of us, that was the peak of Windows' design. Secondly, Win11 is worse than ME in every important way. ME was
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by lproven 10mo ago
> Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to login. At the time (1993, when NT came out) there was a good reason. C-A-D was a special reserved keystroke that couldn't be intercepted or redirected. So you could use it even to interrupt a task that had fr
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by lproven 10mo ago
> The Windows 8 start menu is no different from Launchpad on macOS Launchpad appeared for the first time in Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" in July 2011. Windows 8.0 launched August 2012. Personally I think both are inspired by the full-s
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by lproven 10mo ago
Still around, still works, and still in active development on mobile -- that version is in Debian now.
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by lproven 10mo ago
It's not BS. You can do it but it should be the default . > We had the Bluecurve theme from Red Hat when some HN users didn't even start Elementary school. True. Bring back Bluecurve on KDE. Bring it back on both. Fedora pee

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