TimeSquirrel

I’m too old to be nostalgic for skeuomorphism. But a retina-burning amber monochrome monitor, text mode, with menus and UIs built out of ASCII graphics, or at best, 640 x 480 CPU-driven graphics modes? Now you’re talking.

From my perspective, the skeuomorphic era of the early-late 2000s is still “modern”.

As an addition to your post, I’m also in the process of learning C/C++, and I’m curious also how others arrange their actual project files and include directories. Like, for example, if there’s a bunch of classes having to do with UI elements, do you just group them each under their own file all in their own directory? I’ve also seen projects where everything was just thrown into the top level directory, both headers and implementation files together in a giant pile of source files.

Happens. Cars used to need special skills to even get started and drive around. Now a five year old can start one and drive off if they can reach the pedals. But they won’t have any clue how it actually works.

My computer is on a workbench that already has a mess of wires and electronic components on it. One less wire is great. I barely game. I don’t need the quick response.

Conputer users should have technical knowledge to do stuff like that.

It’s not the 80s anymore. Normies are using computers now.

That’s what some third parties do for ancient OSes that can no longer use Windows Update but where people want to at least have the last patches made for it, like when people make retro machines. There’s an installer package out there that will apply every Windows 98 update ever released in one go. Same for XP I think.

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Headline: MAJOR EXPLOIT FOUND IN NEW LINUX KERNEL VERSION!

Debian: business as usual…

Why call it a podcast? Digital audio interviews existed before the iPod. Just following your logic.

I guess my point it, why does it matter? We both know what it means. The language has accomplished its goal of communication.

No better way to learn and get used to it than ripping off the bandage and being forced to deal with it. That’s what I did. Been Windows-free for ten years. If you still have a Windows partition around, it may be too tempting to just go back to it when things get a bit hairy.

As far as games, yeah, it sucks that I can’t play some games, but I’ve filled that time with more productive hobbies. I can program C and C++ now, self taught on Linux.

But the more people that jump ship, the more developers will target Linux, so it’s just a matter of time now before you can play anything again. It’s definitely a 1000x better environment now than when I switched back then.

First clue was the “ata” prefacing every error message. Then various things like “SCSI parity error” which indicates data corruption during transmission. “Parity” data is used to double check the integrity of the actual data.

https://wiki.galliumos.org/Welcome_to_the_GalliumOS_Wiki

Unfortunately, looks to be discontinued, I just checked. I guess I gotta check up on my mom’s laptop and get her something that’s still getting updates haha. That news totally slipped by me.

Not Windows, but I rooted/cracked an old Chromebook for my mother and put Gallium OS on it because newer ChromeOS wasn’t suported anymore. She was able to take care of affairs with it when my Dad passed and uses it daily still to keep in touch and manage her life. 90% of what she does takes place in Firefox, so as long as an OS has that and some basic utilities like a calc and text editor, she’s good to go.

A $150 laptop bought in 2013 still able to accomplish modern tasks. It makes me sick thinking of the throwaway society we have created. When I pass by the neighborhood dumpster and see an entire perfectly fine big screen LCD TV with just a couple bad capacitors in the power supply. When I see entire vapes with batteries littering the ground. When Microsoft decides to arbitrarily kill off an entire previous generation of PCs with TPM.

Well…right now it’s being used to cheat on homework and generate infinite anime tiddies…so just a matter of time, I guess?

Stashing it on the shelf next to my copy of the Windows 2000 source code…

“Mom, I want Scrabble.”

“We have Scrabble at home…”

I plug in an external drive every so often and drag and drop parts of my home dir into it like it’s 1997. I’m not running a data center here. The boomer method is good enough and I don’t do anything important enough to warrant going all out with professional snapshot based backup solutions and stuff. And I only save personal documents, media, and custom config files. Everything else is replaceable.

Plus it’ll make it easier to quickly restack everything for multiple launches, for stuff like orbital assembly and refueling. We’ll be able to replace the ISS in a week with this thing, once they get a small workhorse fleet going.

I bought a copy of Corel Linux in 2001 at a USAF base exchange because I was a broke airman and was building my first homebuilt PC and didn’t want to shell out money for Windows, and I didn’t have Internet to pirate it in the dorms (this was the days of no wifi and pay as you go Internet cafes). I thought it’d be JUST like Windows, and I could get shit done, and the differences were just like those between Mac/PC. Just a different interface.

Boy was I wrong. It sucked balls. I didn’t pick up Linux again until Ubuntu in 2006. Now I daily drive Debian. Oh well, at least it came with an inflatable penguin.

I use KDE because it has a cute dragon instead of a stinky foot.