I’ll mention organic maps and rimusic.

I guess you weren’t in the ring.

Right. Site plugins or something.

Could it cure their multiposting?

Could be a liability for them to have to work on support for those sites when it breaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunter_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angband_(video_game)

Depends on how you constrain that idea. Open worlds were a very early idea, but old computers were somewhat capacity limited in how much content you could have.

The Ender probably wasn’t. It was a lot of effort, and mostly not the interesting kind, and fairly little reward. Although when it worked, it was really good. In the end. Sometimes. And it’s way too big.

The Kingroon, very much yes. It’s cheap, kind of trashy, but compact. Just prints stuff. Parts detach great. Works just about every time. Quiet out of the box. Just kind of annoying to preheat at the start and end of the session to load and unload filament. Very annoying touchscreen. But those are minor things and I’m not tempted to fix it or upgrade anything. I have actual projects to do. Too many actual projects to do.

Oh, and why? Custom parts that are impossible to buy and a lot of work or impossible to machine or fabricate otherwise. Saves a trip to the local library or hackerspace or wherever things could be printed.

You can pick any. I guess the way is to just pick one based on it’s description or users or package availability or size and then learn to use it. And or try another one when you figure out if it has problems. Sick with the one you like the most. Or write your own.

Nothing to see phone.

It could work better because a web browser is the most bloated useless bug ridden insecure creeping horror ever invented.

Although I suspect this is just a web browser with some extra chrome.

Microsoft not being evil? Not going to happen. (Except for smokescreen purposes and amounts)

Mostly only the charger cares. A tool often only has power contacts. Something “smarter” like a camera with battery life gauges in the menu etc will most likely want to talk to the battery.

But if the company thinks the extra cost in manufacture is worth it, they’ll probably choose evil.

Translation: play store will be showing even more ads.

The takeaway is still https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

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.

I would have settled for “sauna good”. Which I knew already as a finn.

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”.

Psions were pretty amazing. Can’t believe they ran a whole operating system like that on a couple of batteries. Iirc, turning on the LCD backlight doubled the idle power consumption. So the whole system was as heavy as a couple of LEDs.

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.