DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
@nina_kali_nina oh god this is hitting me with netscape 4 memories aieeee
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
@nina_kali_nina I love this. This is my teenage
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
Heh .. ironically, Gnome 1 was actually pretty usable....
Nowadays, one has to resort to lxqt or xfce... meh. ;)
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
@nina_kali_nina Ah the good old GNU Network Object Model Environment
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
@nina_kali_nina Ah, X desktops in the 90s. When everyone was sure virtual desktops needed a visual map.
All this needs is Netscape Navigator, XMMS, and maybe a GNUtella client to complete the vibe.
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
@nina_kali_nina Gnome 1 was around the time when I switched from dual booting OS/2 and Linux to using Linux full time. Gnome looked like it would soon match the Workplace Shell. (Took me almost two decades to give up on that hope.)
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@nina_kali_nina Ah, X desktops in the 90s. When everyone was sure virtual desktops needed a visual map.
All this needs is Netscape Navigator, XMMS, and maybe a GNUtella client to complete the vibe.
@bytex64 In the mid 90s I used that visual map a LOT. I was running fvwm on a monitor that could only choke out 800x600, with a virtual framebuffer of 1024x768 (helloooo 1 MB graphics memory!), and four virtual desktops. The real advantage was that I could manipulate the windows on the visual map, so I could move windows between desktops/etc., which was a little bit awkward otherwise. Then, virtual desktops were often not discrete, windows could "fall off" of one onto another.
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DemoLinux 1.1 for Mandrake 6 (1999) comes with GNOME 1 and some serious vibes
@nina_kali_nina this is computers, to me
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@nina_kali_nina this is computers, to me
@aparrish @nina_kali_nina same. That foot (?) icon! Memories of borking my absolutely-needed-to-work-for-college Gateway desktop trying to get my partitions correct.
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@ericg you'll get through it
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Seems like we're going with stomach-knotted anxiety this morning.
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A Working Intercom From Antique Telephones
Although it can be hard to imagine in today’s semiconductor-powered, digital world, there was electrical technology around before the widespread adoption of the transistor in the latter half of the 1900s that could do more than provide lighting. People figured out clever ways to send information around analog systems, whether that was a telegraph or a telephone. These systems are almost completely obsolete these days thanks to digital technology, leaving a large number of rotary phones and other communications systems relegated to the dustbin of history. [Attoparsec] brought a few of these old machines back to life anyway, setting up a local intercom system with technology faithful to this pre-digital era.
These phones date well before the rotary phone that some of us may be familiar with, to a time where landline phones had batteries installed in them to provide current to the analog voice circuit. A transformer isolated the DC out of the line and amplified the voice signal. A generator was included in parallel which, when operated by hand, could ring the other phones on the line. The challenge to this build was keeping everything period-appropriate, with a few compromises made for the batteries which are D-cell batteries with a recreation case. [Attoparsec] even found cloth wiring meant for guitars to keep the insides looking like they’re still 100 years old. Beyond that, a few plastic parts needed to be fabricated to make sure the circuit was working properly, but for a relatively simple machine the repairs were relatively straightforward.
The other key to getting an intercom set up in a house is exterior to the phones themselves. There needs to be some sort of wiring connecting the phones, and [Attoparsec] had a number of existing phone wiring options already available in his house. He only needed to run a few extra wires to get the phones located in his preferred spots. After everything is hooked up, the phones work just as they would have when they were new, although their actual utility is limited by the availability of things like smartphones. But, if you have enough of these antiques, you can always build your own analog phone network from the ground up to support them all.
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@transicorn@mastodon.social they can't possibly get hacked twice right?
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So about that #Discord #AgeVerification #ID or #FaceScan mandate...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo
October 9th, 2025
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@alsivx @ildisinformatico ho indagato pure Briar e sembra veramente valido
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@evan So now I'm wondering whether Borders Book Store ever opened a location in Quebec or France, and did they call it "frontières"??
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@informapirata @eticadigitale Maledetti... Certe pubblicità e contenuti in riproduzione automatica violerebbero anche le norme di accessibilità - non parliamo di quelle pubblicità poi che ti alzano il volume a palla
