[-] porl@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

TRANSPARENT TERMINALS! Haha it felt so futuristic and to this day I can't run a terminal without a little transparency. Enlightenment was my first experience of it.

[-] porl@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Now said contributor works a bit more on the project and adds some great new functionality, but floorp don't agree it fits their plans. So the contributor decides to make their own fork called ceilingp and build from that. Nope, they don't have the license to do so. They can take the mpl parts. They can take their own parts (they didn't sign an exclusive release of their code). They can add their own new code. They can't use the rest of the floorp code though.

So floorp gets the benefits but no one else can build off it without permission (save for private use without releasing it and potentially having others do the same).

[-] porl@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

My old job was servicing niche scientific equipment. Glad to see you saw that opportunity - there are a lot of shitty products out there selling for five or six figures, and often running technology multiple decades out of date.

[-] porl@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

Hearing your monitor squeal when you got the modelines wrong was fun.

[-] porl@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I think it is mostly Americans that say that. I've never heard anyone say it outside of reading it on American centric forums.

[-] porl@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

How does this compare to wlroots?

[-] porl@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago

I absolutely love Hyprland but have no respect for Vaxry beyond his coding ability.

I really hope someone starts a good fork of it, I haven't found another wm I like as much but I hate to be seen as supporting that awful person.

[-] porl@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

They are not likely to be using the terminal. Pretty much every graphical file browser will ask for confirmation upon delete, and many will use a rubbish bin by default.

[-] porl@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Before I had a proper internet connection (had to ask permission to borrow a dial up account) I bought a magazine that had a picture of a cow on it saying that Larry the cow was different. It was a DVD image of the stage one mirror of this new fangled Gentoo thing.

Learnt from the magazine how to install a bootloader and so on and then "bravely" typed emerge world into the terminal after configuring the list of all the packages I wanted. Including a full desktop (KDE I think but may have been Gnome). And Firefox. And Open Office. And some multimedia stuff I don't remember.

On a Pentium ii.

Took a week before I could do the next step :D

[-] porl@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

It's its own kind of sexy.

[-] porl@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

I play Pathfinder

There are dozens of us!

[-] porl@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

Why doesn't my keyboard have a thumbs-up key?!

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