noughtnaut

I just want to build a little thing on an esp32 or my old raspi 2b that responds to any “Hey Google/Alexa/Siri” with an indifferent “nah, mate”. I just haven’t gotten around to putting or together yet.

There are old pilots.
There are bold pilots.
But there are no old bold pilots.

There’s a lot of humour in there, but this:

CSCI 3300: Classical Software Studies
Discuss and dissect historically significant products, including VisiCalc, AppleWorks, Robot Odyssey, Zork, and MacPaint. Emphases are on user interface and creativity fostered by hardware limitations.

I’d take that course in a heart beat. I’ve read some of Atkinson’s ideas and thoughts, and the man was deeply sane.

It must be decades now that my LinkedIn background banner is a screen shot of Zork source code.

I mean, good news, but I bet somebody is awfully embarrassed.

I’ve never had a contract that didn’t say that. I always pushed back. Without exception, the response was that hobby projects and open source stuff is fiiine as long as you don’t use company machines, time, resources, or compete with their market.

…except that I’m an idiot who messed up dabbling in geography.

Apologies.

A… switch? To… control your pc? How?

I mean you could just hack up a Bluetooth keyboard and stuff it into a new box. Pick one with a volume knob if that’s what you want.

Or you could go all mechanical keyboards nerd on it and build a custom board and all that.

Just one data point, but my ex wife would take a deep breath every time she was in a parking garage because she really liked that smell.

I haven’t really dived into anime mostly for lack of time. But the way you put it reminds me of the way the Worm universe is everything except black and white.

Serious question: what if I am, and have no idea how to prep for it?

My pension and other things are tied up in stocks and such, if there’s a crash coming I’d think cash under the pillow would be better than stocks. But how do you do that, with your pension?

I had the bright idea to run Carmageddon many, many years after I got a “proper” video card!

…It was still just 256 colours VGA pixelation central. Didn’t use the video card at all. 😂 Still fun though!

There must be a compelling reason they’re sticking with micro USB this long after everything else has gone USB C.

Didn’t think one was needed.

You’d be surprised how versatile that one thing is. Or, should I say, how much abuse it gets at ioccc…

It does need to be Internet connected. It’s critical for patching remote exploit vulnerabilities…

I don’t know you but I love you for that Palatino statement. I’ve used it since forever (ie. back when Macs were black and white) and just love the curves of the italic style. These days, on Linux, I use Tex Gyre Pagella for basically all my documents.

For UI like menus and such, I’m quite nostalgic for the Chicago font - yes, pixelated and aliased and everything.

Agreed on your last point. That’s when programs still had proper tool bars and keyboards shortcuts, before the “ribbon” shit started to fuck over everyone’s muscle memory.

It would have made sense for MS to start with “finger painting UI” and then work towards the power user UI - but the other way round makes zero sense to my poor brain.

This is what I call “confidently wrong”. If you ask it about things you have no clue about, it seems incredibly well-informed and insightful. Ask it something you know deeply, and you’ll easily see it’s just babbling and spouting nonsense - sure makes you wonder about those earlier statements it made, doesn’t it?

Notification led that is separate from the display. Custom per-app colour and blink pattern.

Yup. Screw thinness, I’d love to have one that’s twice as thick as any modern phone, but with a two week battery life. You know, like we used to have.

Stick a 5G phone into a Psion Series V or Psion Revo and I’d buy them for the whole family.