XTL

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[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm guessing it's closer to 190 nations. (Trump, not the assassin)

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Most Unix systems had it in CDE, 1993. Most also had it in whatever came before.

The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000, released in 1985.

The first implementation of virtual desktops for Unix was vtwm in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

It had been the expected default for pretty much an entire decade. Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll. Not sure if anyone really liked using that.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Backspace is delete.

(Sorry)

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Some people also work at customer sites that change often.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 4 points 4 months ago

Anything less would surely be antisemitism.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Since legislators realized that mopeds had been invented.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn't able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn't on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled "format".

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

NeXT is probably the pretty direct ancestor of osx dock. Only Apple turned it from good to bad by moving it to the bottom, where there is no space. And that only got worse as screens became wider, but not taller. And they made it overlap and obscure content and bounce around if you got near it making it extra obnoxious and hard to use.

Other docks existed even before, of course.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 months ago

I think I've seen robot vacuums that have done just that kind of quiet quit. Non robot ones, too, when I think of it.

Some robots could steal food from the refrigerator; some could spray strong perfumes; some could chat up the management then go fuck up a staff person’s work to make them look bad.

So, like a dog.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You could use some sort of caffeine as a workaround. I do since sleep locks don't always work.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

People certainly try with Cyrillic. And kanji?

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