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Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
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#212This 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)
Thanks for the memory of oscar rising up singing I...love...trash!
(hello, fellow old!)
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#213This reminds me of a Lara Croft desktop(?) Screensaver? She climbed onto the window's edges -that were open on your windows screen, rolled, jumped, etc. Sometimes made a comment about you not having cleaned up your desktop. It was a small executable, than ran with or without sound. It wasn't very random, but it made for an interactive mind distraction on a rough day. She also walked across the bottom of the screen, o…
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…
For the nostalgic... https://github.com/glreno/oneko
packaged for debian :)
Re: Ball: A ball that lives in your dock
#214This 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)
If you’re still on a recent macOS, check out the page setup dialog in any app with printing. (She’s still there, doing flips and precision bitmap alignment)
Actual flips? If so, that's an easter egg I didn't manage to trigger.
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#215Does anyone else think this is the least important distraction to real hackers today?
I'm not sure. What's an example of a more important distraction?
And is a real hacker anything like a true Scotsman?
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#216What if your dock is on the side of the screen? Or do I need to install it and see for myself?
https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/blob/main/Ball/DockUtil...
Permalink (press 'y' anywhere on github): https://github.com/nate-parrott/ball/blob/609f3bdba21b6a6a59...
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#217We’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.
what have you been using it for?
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#218We’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.
what have you been using it for?
Can’t speak for parent but we’ve been using it for our standard red ball use cases.
The physics can seem a bit floaty, particularly with space or moonscape wallpapers, but overall it’s good.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
what have you been using it for?
Can’t speak for parent but we’ve been using it for our standard red ball use cases. The physics can seem a bit floaty, particularly with space or moonscape wallpapers, but overall it’s good.
Totally mission critical.-
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#220I want widgets on Windows desktop as well. I want clock, calendar, notes, CPU and system stats, pull out or slide out menus with shortcuts, quirky ones like this one. Instead what I have is ads. And copilot everywhere. With touch screen laptops today you can do so much more. My levono also folds 360 and let's me use it as a full touch screen desktop. There is so much potential for productivity hacks and interactive U…
There was a very good one, I think back in 2005 - 2007 as part of Google Desktop / Google Desktop Search. That was back when Google was a respectable company that in addition to the mandatory EULA had a separate notice that informed very very cleary, something like: READ THIS CAREFULLY THIS IS NOT THE NORMAL YADDA YADDA ... and then a relatively description of what they were going to to and not. It had an amazing RSS…
(I too remember that Google. The "Don't be evil" Google).-