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The nostalgic desktops thread got me thinking today (definitely not putting off work or anything, no,) about running a few nostalgic desktops and god Linux sucks so bad now. Because everything should be as user-hostile to build as possible there are a few apps I use via flatpaks. For the life of me ...

Any of y'all spend much time with RoX trying to recreate RISCOS? I never spent much time with either but I know it's a thing. Technically not a window manager itself though.

My preferred throwback wm is amiwm:



I think the latest version is here ?

I like the mac wm in theory but sadly it was too early to support the now (kinda?) working standard for a global menu by a few decades, so it felt like it was always missing a big part of the mac feel for me.

Of course ...

While listening to a friend of mine complain about a flat earther coworker I came up with (i think?) a novel flat earth model (see picture)

See, we live on these concentric walls and are held to them by the mass of the ice wall on the outside plus the fact that the whole planet is spinning. It's ...

Did you at least buy the domain before ordering the stickers?

I haven't had cloudflare problems with the latest version of seamonkey, but there's been a lot of little breakage. I can't scroll down on youtube videos once they've loaded, paypal is broken, a few other small-ish things.

Does the wifi actually work? I was under the impression that OS9 couldn't even do WPA1.


that is the case of the internal airport (which i don't even have), yes

the blue thing on top of the keyboard in the picture is a wifi to ethernet bridge, it gets power from usb so it needs two wires ...

can't see it, even if i click "continue anyway"

https://img.maple.pet/i/wlc.png


tl;dr: some absolute madman backported a bunch of Vista+ features to XP, then stole code from wine/reactos to backport windows APIs to allow for "compatibility modes" for future versions of windows.

Jealous! I love my blueberry g3 but you can't get batteries for them anymore, you have to hand-rebuild from cells.

Does the wifi actually work? I was under the impression that OS9 couldn't even do WPA1.

We had a good ice storm just before my trip up to Philadelphia. For probably my first 2 hours of driving every tree's branches were encased in ice. I don't usually see stuff like that more than once or twice a year, much less that much of an eyeful.