Amazing! Now to get this approved as business critical software at work... :)
It’s a productivity decline indicator. You’re welcome lol
Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
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#72I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil... Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop, and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!
It looks like this repo is is a rewrite of an earlier "scmpoo.exe" that roamed the internet in the mid-1990s. That was fun to set up on school computers to automatically launch at random times.
That's the one I had. I got it from my friend in sixth grade, and who knows where he got it from!
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#73I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil... Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop, and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!
Aww memories. One of my old colleagues would mess with my computer and added a bunch of these. I left them there much to his chagrin. I got revenge as one night he was in the office late at night by my desktop, it was completely dark in the office and the sheep baa’d and it scared the crap out of him.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I loved the one that would take a screenshot of your current desktop and you could smash it with a hammer and set it on fire. Little me had some anger issues
How could you not for being forced to use Windows?
Not everyone has a hate boner for Windows.
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#75I like this, it reminds me of xeyes and similar early UI toys.
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#76Now compare this with Apple's 90min multi million dollar bi-yearly recorded presentation where Tim Apple & friends lobotomize the credulous consumers...
'member when computers used to be fun?
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#77I still miss my desktop sheep every once in a while: https://github.com/Adrianotiger/desktopPet?tab=readme-ov-fil... Edit: the best part was running it a couple dozen times to get an entire flock walking, falling, and rolling all over your desktop, and watching everything grind to halt under CPU strain!
Haha thank you! This was my first thought too!
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#78I remember Docklings, a feature of early OSX that let devs put mini-apps in the Dock. I had one showing uptime, undoubtedly just piping the output from the CLI command. That was one of the early steps toward my interest in the CLI, which still wouldn’t be realized for a handful of years. This is a great throwback with more capability than those had. Very cool.
> early OSX
So early that they got de-facto replaced by MenuItems in 10.1 just six months after 10-dot-0 (though Docklings were in DPs/PB too)
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#79https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlAhRJjOhDg
First time I saw that Amiga ball bounce, mind = blown.
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#80I don't have any hard proof but you can ask my wife, a few years ago I totally called that bonzibuddy was gonna come back in style. We're almost there
If I knew how, I would 100% make a native app that simulates Clippy but is my daily interface with ChatGPT.
Looks like it already exists: https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9nwk37s35v5t