Made me think of the first season of Halt and Catch Fire.

Shudder. I had this weird brand laptop… Sotec IIRC and there just wasn’t a modline that ever got it all right.

Xserver… Somehow trying to find the magic string of letters and numbers that made your screen work.

They have a browser plug-in. I use it on Firefox on my desktop and on my Android phone. My uses it on Chrome on both as well.

I started using Kagi. Yeah, I have to pay for it. But we’re paying for Google too, kagi is just more honest about how.

To be fair a hotplate could play games better than a p4 and do it while staying cooler.

Isn’t it more like a network of several billion dumb computers?

Fair enough.

I make a good effort and help the community and my reward is a second job… Unpaid?

The putt putt line of games. They run on scummvm and my kids love them. Later kings quest, and stardew valley. The lego marvel super heroes on Xbox 360 (I think there’s a pc version) has an entire Manhattan island that they can roam around freely and interact with.

Another Rider user. I write mainly backed code, and integrations etc. Work is Rider and Datagrip on windows. Home is Debian KDE with Rider and Datagrip. I love it. If only I can convince my it group to allow Debian on my work computer.

Loved the wobbly windows

Like VRML from the 90s? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML?wprov=sfla1

I had textbooks in college (25 years ago) that always had little blurbs about the acronyms and their pronunciation. GUI, we were instructed, was pronounced gooey. WYSIWYG is wiz-ee-wig, etc. It was on tests IIRC.

That was a really good article. I remember all of the things he talks about. XMPP could have been amazing. Hopefully, we’ve learned.