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Post by psychoslave »

echelon wrote: post #30
zkmon wrote: post #25

Why did we kill all that beautiful minimalism? Computers had enough gaming, entertainment and productivity back then. But the definition of "enough" kept changing. Like a carrot tied to stick attached to an animal.

This is a silly question. It will never be enough until we can manipulate the fabric of space and time directly as gods and create entirely new universes and physics and live forever for an infinity infinities. The ratio of our infinitesimal, geologically small existence to the whole of the light cone and the observable universe - it is just a glimpse at the fractal of what will be enough to satiate our curiosity and…

Moving in that direction, even recursive infinities won't bring someone anywhere near satisfaction, contentment and delight.

Curiosity and desire can be focused on minimalism and elegance of the smallest most essential cores of whatever is at stake.

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Post by 29athrowaway »

zkmon wrote: post #25

Why did we kill all that beautiful minimalism? Computers had enough gaming, entertainment and productivity back then. But the definition of "enough" kept changing. Like a carrot tied to stick attached to an animal.

On Linux you can customize your UI to achieve any look you want.

- A Windows 3.1 window manager theme

- The Windows 3.1 fonts with font hinting/antialiasing disabled

- Windows 3.1 icons

- A matching cursor theme

- Lower your display resolution

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#113

Post by cluckindan »

sjsdaiuasgdia wrote: post #24
layer8 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My point is that while there is a small time window where Zip drives were available and Windows 3.11 was still the latest consumer Windows (ignoring NT here), Zip drives feel more like Windows 95-era. A stack of 3.5” floppy disks would have felt more authentic.

It's a very "borderline between eras" picture. The 1000 RSX was a late Tandy model. It has a 386 CPU and VGA graphics, which makes it a pretty reasonable Win 3.11 machine. It's a system that could technically run Win 95 but it'd struggle with that CPU and limited RAM capacity. You really wanted a 486 or Pentium for Win 95. The monitor is the standard Tandy VGA monitor of the system's era. The styling on the speakers…

I think the picture was taken using a film camera. The resolution is way too high for 90’s digital cameras.

Re: Canyon.mid

#114

Post by cluckindan »

browningstreet wrote: post #106
swat535 wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, the quality of software has dramatically dropped, apps now take 10 seconds to load, memory usage is maxed, games crash and people needed to reinstall their OS so frequently that Microsoft literally added a "reset PC" option.. You can argue that software does much more than before, sure I agree but no one asked for so much bloat and features in every day apps. My note taking app doesn't need AI.

Apps take 10 seconds to load? Which apps, on what system? My whole machine reboots in less than 10 seconds. I haven’t seen a blue screen of death in a decade. I haven’t had significant data loss from a failed drive or a corrupt machine in.. I can’t remember. Even DaVinci Resolve is ready to run in a few short seconds. This is all on a machine I bought 6-8 years ago. I reboot my phone and watch and laptop when I think…

Gimp. On any system.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by pimlottc »

encoderer wrote: post #102

What a wild ride we have taken with computing over the last 40 years. I’m 43 and my first computer looked even older than this - one color display, dual floppy disks and no hard drive. Now we have AI deploy to gigaclouds and monitor it with pocket computers.

Get a load the big shot over here with two floppy drives! No mid-game disks changes for you!

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Post by ndiddy »

jonhohle wrote: post #99

I can hear that Model M just be looking at it. The break on the buckling springs is still one of the best you can get.

That's a Tandy lookalike of the Model M, it's a rubber dome keyboard.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by seba_dos1 »

cluckindan wrote: post #114
browningstreet wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apps take 10 seconds to load? Which apps, on what system? My whole machine reboots in less than 10 seconds. I haven’t seen a blue screen of death in a decade. I haven’t had significant data loss from a failed drive or a corrupt machine in.. I can’t remember. Even DaVinci Resolve is ready to run in a few short seconds. This is all on a machine I bought 6-8 years ago. I reboot my phone and watch and laptop when I think…

Gimp. On any system.

GIMP takes pretty long to launch indeed, but it's still under 5 seconds on my 6yo XPS 13. Even on my Cortex-A53 phone it doesn't reach 10 seconds.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by ascagnel_ »

entropie wrote: post #54
zkmon wrote: post #25

Why did we kill all that beautiful minimalism? Computers had enough gaming, entertainment and productivity back then. But the definition of "enough" kept changing. Like a carrot tied to stick attached to an animal.

> Computers had enough gaming Had they? I gamed in the 90s and I game now. And boy, its not even remotely the same and iam thrilled to see what comes next (hello, gta6)

Games are now infinitely more complex -- I can run an improved version of Ultima VII (1992) on a device that fits in my pocket, while the original wouldn't have run on this (it required a 486 and even the latest possible Tandy systems maxed out at the 386), and that's not even getting into stuff like Factorio or Satisfactory.

Re: Canyon.mid

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Post by deathanatos »

cluckindan wrote: post #114
browningstreet wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apps take 10 seconds to load? Which apps, on what system? My whole machine reboots in less than 10 seconds. I haven’t seen a blue screen of death in a decade. I haven’t had significant data loss from a failed drive or a corrupt machine in.. I can’t remember. Even DaVinci Resolve is ready to run in a few short seconds. This is all on a machine I bought 6-8 years ago. I reboot my phone and watch and laptop when I think…

Gimp. On any system.

GIMP takes ~2s to start on my 2016 Linux laptop.

(Though I do think it takes significantly longer to start on my 2024 MBP…)

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