We’ve been using this in production for the last three months and I can report it has been fairly smooth overall. Only very minor downtime, and we’ve received a lot of communication from our customers about it, they like it quite a bit. So that’s been nice.
Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
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#202for Apple OS
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There was a few programs like this. The earliest one I recall was Neko https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software) But I think there were sheep, dancing babies (ugh!!), something like Bonzi Buddy rings a bell (I once had to clean something named that off a colleague’s workstation when he reported it thinking it was malware). There was also toys like this on Linux and Unix too. Most famously xeyes. I miss the play…
I wish wikipedia would detect when you're accessing from a non-mobile device and automatically redirect you to non-mobile wikipedia
Sounds like a simple user script, found one after some searching: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/401345-force-redirect-mobi...
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#204There is still room for a bit of whimsy in computing. Anything to combat the flood of doom is welcome.
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#205But why?
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#206so simple, yet one of the best things to happen to my desktop ever
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a few programs like this. The earliest one I recall was Neko https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software) But I think there were sheep, dancing babies (ugh!!), something like Bonzi Buddy rings a bell (I once had to clean something named that off a colleague’s workstation when he reported it thinking it was malware). There was also toys like this on Linux and Unix too. Most famously xeyes. I miss the play…
On X11 systems there were also things like xsnow, with snow piling up on your window borders and santa flying in the background. xlemmings, walking/falling on your windows and various variations on this. Xeyes is the 'biggest' or most famous one, but in early linux distro's there were various of these things in the 'games' sections.
Was going to say that!
I should still have a screenshot somewhere of lesstif/mwm with xsnow + xeyes (and xclock of course)
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#208I read the description of the product and came away with the feeling that it's safe to say it's a ball.
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I ran something called Dogz [1] which was a pretty advanced dog simulator. You could train the dog to perform tricks or punish it if it did something you didn't like. They claimed to use AI and it worked very well although I don't know how much much was placebo. In any case, I remember it as being well ahead of its time. [1] https://youtu.be/8eqLzcvVpiM
I had both Catz and Dogz but I don’t recall them ever interacting with the desktop. Fun toy though. Kind of like a tamagotchi.
> tamagotchi
Tamagotchi. Now that's nostalgia for you.-
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#210There is still room for a bit of whimsy in computing. Anything to combat the flood of doom is welcome.
Agreed. Totally. Also, the "whimsy" is - I believe - indicative of something deeper ...
PS. Incidentally, "lightheartedness", humor, might just be the ultimate Turing test.-