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I was hoping I could use Netscape Navigator to go to Hacker News and post a comment from it, but it has no network connection. And I guess it probably wouldn't be able to HTTPS.
https://oldweb.today/ gives you that experience, using some of the same building blocks.
Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/
In middle school, we had a math teacher with an old mac setup that ran a physics simulator program. It came with a variety of starter templates, one of them was this crash test dummy in a car. It was all polygons, but you could hit run and the car would accelerate and hit a wall then the circle head and arms would sort of fly around. Anyone know what this software was? I remember running and re-running little simulat…
I'm not sure how many people will remember this, but macOS 8 came with a program called Hotline, who's main activity was "publishing and distribution of a multi-purpose client/server communication software." Most people I knew used it to pirate software and MP3s. The way most of us used it was we'd find a server that had something we wanted (software, a crack, or music), and the login would be password protected. The…
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>Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out. That makes no sense. Bitmaps have a fixed pixel density while vectors are infinitely scalable.
Vectors will scale to any pixel density, but they look irritatingly fuzzy at the lower pixel densities you commonly see in large widescreen monitors. Obviously it's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but decades ago bitmapped fonts could give you crisp text on any monitor, and in 2022 I'm using a popular, >$1300, very favorably reviewed monitor, and the text is ever-so-slightly fuzzy. It's plugged into my Macbook Pr…
What does one have to do to get as clear and pretty of a UI as that on the modern desktop OSes? Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out. Of course you can always run dwm on linux with a hodgepodge of makeshift utility apps, write your own keybinds to set your brightness and volume and other such inanities, but in order to g…
i3wm = tiling window manager lxappearance = set gtk theme and settings qt5ct = set qt5 theme and settings kvantum more settings for qt ponymix cli for pulseaudio that sucks less than pactl pavucontrol gui mixer nm-applet tray applet that lets you select a different network i3status-rust nicer and more powerful status line for i3bar rofi a launcher that looks like nice and is more powerful
To this add all the other apps you already use.
The thing about this hodgepodge is that there really isn't much to be said about integration as the different components don't require or benefit from such. The connection between such are so bare direct and obvious that there isn't much of a question how to put it together. You change a line in your i3 config to start a different app at startup or trigger a different one with a keybinding.
If you had done so 5 years ago you could be using much the same configuration now and much the same configuration 5 years hence. I guarantee you that whether you use KDE or Gnome or Windows you are liable to spend a day here or there tweaking your environment even if Bob in accounting doesn't.
Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/
My son regularly asks me to play Lemmings now because of this app :)
What does one have to do to get as clear and pretty of a UI as that on the modern desktop OSes? Everyone switched from bitmaps to vectors over a decade ago and now everything is fuzzy, antialiased, scalable, flat, hard to make out. Of course you can always run dwm on linux with a hodgepodge of makeshift utility apps, write your own keybinds to set your brightness and volume and other such inanities, but in order to g…
If you really want you can also tweak some settings to totally disable antialiasing and switch to bitmap font rendering. On modern semi-high DPI displays (like a 14" 1920x1080 panel) it isn't that great though as most bitmap fonts are far too small to be readable (~8-12 pixels tall). For the most crisp and clear text, even crisper than old bitmap stuff, you really want a high DPI display in the 4k+ range. Try using a modern mac and you will be blown away at how clear and sharp the text renders.
Mouse is lagging
Creator of the site here. There's a blog post with the technical details if you're curious about how it works and whose work it builds on: https://blog.persistent.info/2022/03/blog-post.html There are also a couple of variants that boot either System 7.5.3 or KanjiTalk 7.5.3 (the Japanese version of MacOS): https://system7.app/ and https://kanjitalk7.app/
In middle school, we had a math teacher with an old mac setup that ran a physics simulator program. It came with a variety of starter templates, one of them was this crash test dummy in a car. It was all polygons, but you could hit run and the car would accelerate and hit a wall then the circle head and arms would sort of fly around. Anyone know what this software was? I remember running and re-running little simulat…