TIL NASA is woke.
(/s shouldn't be required but here we are...)
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To each their own though? I can't imagine why anyone would want something other than i3 (or similar), because almost by definition the DE is not the program I fired up my computer to interact with, and i3 "gets out of the way better" than most others in my experience.
But...that's just my use case. It's a horrible UX for most people, just happens to work well for me.
I feel old...when I was learning how to run Linux I started with an old 386 (maybe 486?) my dad wasn't using. I think it had 32MB RAM, which was fancy for those machines.
We had dial up at the time, so only one machine could be on the Internet. So, I set up a modem on the x86, plugged into an Ethernet hub (switch?), and learned enough ipchains (this was before iptables) to share a connection. It also ran Samba, an AFP server, and probably FTP and HTTP (just for local access)
but it worked for filesharing.
It could also run MP3 streaming software which amused me because the machine itself was too slow to decode MP3 (but that's not necessary to stream).
Crash Team Racing PS1 was IMHO better than Mario Kart N64. The wumpa fruit added a neat dimension, and the ability to select weapons for battle mode was great.
I just wish we'd have neither inflation nor deflation.
Some tech has followed this pattern. For example: entry level Mac laptop in ~2000 was the iBook, priced at $1599 ($3k+ in today's dollars). The current entry level Mac laptop (M4 Air) starts at $999
cheaper in absolute dollars, and way cheaper in relative dollars.
(Macs are just an example since Apple doesn't have a very extensive product list, so there's only one "entry level" laptop to choose from. And yes it's fair to ask if the relative specs have just gotten worse, but I think this is also the opposite
the iBook was iirc criticized as being underpowered, whereas the M4 Air is afaik well regarded.)
I am the Walrus?
When I htop and sort by memory, my finger hovering above F9...
Missed opportunity to replace "dozen" with 11 ;)
Once I pulled an HDD out of an old TiVo for a desktop build (Gentoo, I think
this was a while back). I called the machine "voit" because it was an anagram of TiVo
but I particularly liked that it's a homophone for Voight, of Voight-Kampff fame.
Interesting, TIL
thanks!
Books has become e-books.
To some extent
but have you been to a hip bookstore recently? They exist, and are very much alive.
What, the curtains?