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I 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!
I was a big fan of VirtuaGirl myself. (NSFW if you Google about it).
Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive animals/pets for your desktop? This is the best thing I could find so far to put on an extra monitor. Note you can click to interact with the penguins and also feed them. https://www.petpenguins.com/
> Does anyone know of any similar ideas for an interactive animals/pets for your desktop? Maybe try Bonzi Buddy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
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I added this to my website a while ago. You can open a terminal and summon as many as your computer can handle with something like `sheep 100`. https://dustinbrett.com/
quite cool. how did you make that website ?
I 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.
He mentions the old Dashboard ball widget. There was a glitch you could use to put widgets onto your desktop instead, so naturally every school Mac had 20 bouncy balls on it.
classic. we had the versions of OS X with keyboard shortcuts for global zoom and color invert. took a couple months for the faculty to learn about these shortcuts the hard way..
This is awesomely reminiscent of the old school 68k macintosh era - dogcow, oscar the grouch in the trash can, etc I miss that simplicity / playfulness / aesthic of that era (yes I am old, please get off my lawn)
This is awesomely reminiscent of the old school 68k macintosh era - dogcow, oscar the grouch in the trash can, etc I miss that simplicity / playfulness / aesthic of that era (yes I am old, please get off my lawn)
Strangely reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BumpTop
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How could you not for being forced to use Windows?
Not everyone has a hate boner for Windows.