I wonder if someone like Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux could make it usable? I’ve seen both run usably on 1990s PC hardware.

The Pi Zero has about the same specs as a Pi 1A+ did, just on a smaller circuit board. It…can run Raspberry Pi’s Pixel desktop, though it was a bit more usable back when they just shipped LMDE. Last time I tried it took about 20 minutes to boot to a desktop.

I had to use a Pi 1B as my main desktop for a few months because Dell can’t fix a laptop to save their lives. “Can this run LibreOffice” is an amazing question to be forced to ask.

You know what I notice? My journal app takes almost a gigabyte because it’s based on Electron.

Well like, the actual smart dimension tool was nice, thanks for finally joining us in the 21st century. An actual assembly workbench, even if it is a bit jank, we finally got that out the door. My understanding is a big reason that was able to go through was some old blood departed. And I think that’s a story that FOSS can tell over and over again, someone likes the code they wrote the way they wrote it for sentimental reasons even if it has the UX of a yeast infection.

It has been my experience that major improvements to the UX of open source projects comes when someone who has been there the whole time leaves and new blood replaces them, often someone with commercial interest. FreeCAD got a major bump when Ondsel came in, for example. Ondsel didn’t have a viable business model, “We’ll take the crappy FOSS joke CAD app and sell cloud services for it” which I really hope didn’t get them a single customer, and I’m really happy some of their money was deprived of them improving FreeCAD.

It’s open source, so the name has to be a diaper fire. It’s an acronym, it stands for Kool Desktop Environment Non LInear Video Editor.

Everyone I’ve heard pronounce it out loud says “kayden lyve.”

Yes, that’s a built-in feature called proxy video. It makes lower resolution copies of the video files, you edit with them, it’s a big load off your machine (and easier on RAM), you can render a low quality version from the proxy files for you or someone else on your team to preview for any last minute changes, then you can render out the entire thing from the original high res files.

Well we’ll sick Tantacrul on it once he’s done with Audacity, MuseScore, GIMP and FreeCAD.

Can you blame a Chameleon for blending in? Look to the right of Fedora.

The Island of TempleOS is in the middle of the Holy Sea.

Well, English isn’t a prescriptive language, so if we just start saying “dongus” they’ll put it in the dictionary.

Anyone got a recommendation for a good bluetooth dongus?

I get that all the time, too.

My father, an IT professional since before there was IT, once said to me “One of the reasons why I like Norton is it will check if there’s updates to my software for me.”

Oh you bitter winter child.

I dumpster dived a Nokia Lumia tablet that had RT on it. It got used as a kitchen Youtube viewer for a couple months before I gave it away.

7 was about the last time that it felt like Microsoft was trying to make a good product that was useful for its customers. They’ve always been anticompetitive sniveling greedy little shits that would buy out or otherwise kill competition, but used to be they’d try to sell new versions of Windows or Office on features they could reasonably expect customers to want. “It does spell check in real time now! We’ve included USB plug-and-play! Your PC with a modem is also a fax machine now! We made a 3D graphics library for gaming enthusiasts! We ship or OS with a media player that can play DVDs and MP3s out of the box! Here’s a free video editor!”

I…don’t remember that happening after Windows 7. Windows 8 was an attempt to cash in on the mobile craze, they’re gonna make Windows a tablet product now! Except a lot of computers didn’t have tablet controls, and a lot of desktop PC software doesn’t work with tablet controls. They made a confusing annoying buggy hell mess. Win 10…I remember people hating it when it came out, they REALLY preferred 7, I was on Linux by that time and didn’t care that much, and Win 10 was almost a rolling release; it changed a lot over its lifetime. They’d go all in on something, pack Win 10 full of features, and then the fad would fade and they’d pull it back out. 3D, AR, a couple other things. And now we’ve got the openly user hostile Windows 11. “It Harms Your Family!^®”

Was that Windows 8.1, or Windows RT?

There’s a circle in hell for game publishers that only wrote “disc 1” on a CD or DVD (or floppy, back in the day) and not “disc 1 of 3”. I think it’s the one where they have to wade forever in shit.

It is my understanding that’s how all speculation bubbles work. Same thing happened to beanie babies. “People are buying these because they’re going to be worth something someday…somehow; we better buy some too.”

Microsoft is basically saying that Windows should not be used anymore in those.

I would agree with them.