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@jonathankoren yeah, I used C64 GEOS for all my school work for at least a couple of years. Before that I had SpeedScript, the first version of which my dad and I typed in from a magazine. I seem to recall I used some other word processor on C128, but I don't remember what. Then it was Final Writer on Amiga.
But, GEOS has a certain nostalgic magic about it. I've tinkered with it more recently, and it is dog slow on a C64 with a real disk drive and no RAM expansion, I don't know how I endured.
I think this means "yes", and also, the source is available! I knew GEOS for C64 and C128 was floating around out there somewhere, didn't know the PC version also got liberated.
PC GEOS or GeoWorks could run on 8088, right? I wonder if it runs on PCjr... I was always curious about it, but didn't own a PC when it was relevant. My first PC was Windows 95 era, and it soon got Red Hat Linux.
That's also part of why it failed, I think? They wrote much of it in assembler and going to 32-bit architecture while competing with a much better funded Microsoft and Apple was a challenge maybe?
@Cenbe the Year of GEOS on the desktop.
@georgetakei someone must go to prison.
@matt I think that the people who write novels for Novel Month were entirely in the right to shun the NaNoWriMo folks for selling out their community to AI grifters.
Whether there is a valid role for AI in creative writing, perhaps the jury is still out. But, I hate AI-generated prose. Not merely dislike it or find it worrying for ethical reasons...I hate reading it. So, if AI-generated prose is to be a part of writing novels going forward, I think those novels will probably suck.
Am I deciding literally two days before November that maybe it's time to do Novel Month again? Maybe? Because I have literally hundreds of other more important things to do, and you know I'm going to avoid doing critically important things in a timely manner by any means necessary.
Also, still hilarious that creative people hate AI so much that promoting it literally killed NaNoWriMo instantly and people just kept on doing the thing under another name.
Power's out. Time for walking.
I think my cat has figured out how to turn the drinking water faucet on. This is a disaster. I mean, I'm happy for her to drink nice clean water whenever she wants, but she definitely won't turn it back off.
@genehack I'm pretty averse to using from-source builds of stuff. I mean, I build a lot of software all the time, as it's my job to package a shitload of software...a bunch of Python, Nodejs, C and C++ code. But, I like the deployment (even on my own machines) to be a package, so I can keep up with it. So, if I'm building third-party stuff from source it means I'm pretty pissed off about the package situation. I ended up finding an RPM in the RPMFusion nonfree repo while building, though.
Flatpak and Snap are so unpleasant, I'm back to building shit from source.
Watched 28 Years Later. Entertained and occasionally startled and/or grossed out, but not sure how I feel about it.
I know we're suspending disbelief, but there are things that just don't gel with the rules established in the first film. I'm kind of a stickler for internal consistency. The first film remains the only great, or even really good, one in the series, I think.
Microsoft right now.
Aw, yeah. Year of Linux on the desktop here we come.
@mcc my least favorite thing about the music industry these days is that most artists can't expect music royalties to exist, and so they have to make a living almost entirely from touring. So, the $10-$20 mid-tier touring act shows (500-1500 capacity venues) that I loved so much during the 90s and 00s are kinda gone. You have to go smaller, now, to get that kind of deal.
I used to get mad at artists for charging anything over about $25, but now I just feel sad for the kids.
@mos_8502 @patcharcana too slow compared to what? The 8-bit Guy computer took years to ship. MEGA65 something like a decade, though that one had more demanding constraints in having to replicate existing hardware in FPGA and make an injection molded case and sort out other ridiculous stuff like shipping a floppy drive in 2024. You're doing fine.
@QuietMisdreavus the 16GB Radeon RX 9060 is the sweet spot for price performance at about $350 (better than comparably priced nvidia cards, unless you're doing AI). The 9060 with 8GB is about $300, also good price/performance.
Funny thing from the Computer Reset sale, I had PCjr keyboards but no cables (it's a weird custom thing, RJ11 sort of plug on the keyboard side, square thing on the computer side). So I asked if they had any cables left (I only got to Dallas at the very end of the sales and all the really good stuff was long gone) and the volunteers all looked at each other and laughed. They still had thousands of them, just boxes and boxes. It was apparently a running joke how many there were.
@unormal I saw someone say, "mob is short for mobnster".