Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by 29athrowaway » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 11:55 PM UTC

A perfect theme to drive into the glow as directed by the space alien talking through your car radio or the NIST random number generator.

But I am disappointed at the blasphemous resolution. We can only do 640x480, 16 colors (4-bit depth).

NOTE: corrected

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by meindnoch » Tue, Aug 01, 2023, 12:01 AM UTC

OfSanguineFire wrote: post #5

As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.

He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by s5300 » Tue, Aug 01, 2023, 12:14 AM UTC

Sigh.

Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end.

Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by pengaru » Tue, Aug 01, 2023, 12:14 AM UTC

meindnoch wrote: post #7

OfSanguineFire wrote: post #5

As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.

He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

Kind of? he never actually used the word glowie AFAIK. 4chan is the origin.

Re: Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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Post by pengaru » Tue, Aug 01, 2023, 12:16 AM UTC

29athrowaway wrote: post #6

A perfect theme to drive into the glow as directed by the space alien talking through your car radio or the NIST random number generator. But I am disappointed at the blasphemous resolution. We can only do 640x480, 16 colors (4-bit depth). NOTE: corrected

> We can only do 640x480, 16-bit color depth.

Heresy! 16-color (4-bit)