pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

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I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Oh so it wasn't just the VM's fault. It's funny, for years as a kid obsessed with alternate operating systems, I desperately wanted to try Warp. Then I finally did and it took me a week just to install the damn thing.

Warp came out around when I was in middle school, and I remember my friend's older brother being really into it because he was that specific kind of insufferable 90s computer nerd who hated Micro$oft. (To his credit, he eventually got smarter and works at Apple on macOS last I heard.)

The idea of "what if the people who make the operating system that everybody uses teamed up with the people who make the hardware" sounds nice in principle. In practice, though, partnerships like that (when they last at all) mean that you get a stunted version of the operating system as the hardware people keep telling the developers all the things that are impossible.