themodelplumber

3 года назадdiscuss

Wow, that's fascinating. It's definitely not the textbook I was using (1990s era design style, quite a bit less decorative and the illustration style was also different) but the effect is similar. I wonder if the illustration on my textbook could have been based on this one.

themodelplumber

3 года назадdiscuss

There was a horticulture textbook that showed a zoomed-out plot of land on the cover, which with its divisions and sectional diversity effectively looked something like an illustration of the inside of a CPU.

It wasn't intentional as far as I know, but I have to admit that stuck in my head ever since as a really eye-opening metaphor. And the contents of the book were really new to me and even more eye-opening.

Wish I had the name of the book, sorry.

themodelplumber

4 года назадdiscuss

> they spend (read: waste)

Really? What makes you think it's all or even mostly waste?

themodelplumber

4 года назадdiscuss

It was fun to play this game a while back. The grand quest-style narrative is awesome.

BTW speaking of retro space games, I'm looking for something like an upgraded / more fleshed-out version of Space Trader (F-Droid, previously Palm OS), without any real-time combat elements (periodic combat wins/losses/side-effects as a draw-random-card type of effect are OK, but fundamentally I got a business to run in outer space here).

Anybody know whether something like that exists? (The closer I can get to checking the 30wma on asset prices in a given sector, the better)

themodelplumber

6 лет назадdiscuss

> Heck if I can't edit mouse acceleration with ease

Not sure if this is you, but those of our community who are really into the objective sensory aspects are not a terribly good sell for Linux right now IMO. Usually they're looking to rep their OS to other people, whatever that OS ends up being, so rather than build on its strengths, they look for a specific set of strengths to which they're already attuned over time spent with other OSes. Ergonomics and sensory aesthetics are big preferences of this group. Good refresh rates, overall feeling of smoothness, little wastes of their time eliminated, etc.

Mouse acceleration is IMO a good pointer to this kind of sensibility. Unfortunately if that's really important to you (not that you can / can't tweak it, but the _way_ in which you need to do some perceived extra work to configure it) it's important to know that it may be best to build on and adapt to Linux's other strengths, or try it on the side in something less important, or stay with what you already like.

Other phrases like "people should expect" or "things like X should just work" are also good clues here. Nothing wrong with that, but Linux brings really huge subjective strengths to the table (a deeper connection to what do _you_ need or want, starting closer to bare hardware, vs. what do _people_ need or want, starting closer to end user experience) unless you are doing specific types of work where Linux is already a known dominant solution for groups of people.

themodelplumber

6 лет назадdiscuss

Other Doom-related news: An Amiga Doom clone is coming along nicely after years of Amiga users wanting more Doom :-) (The video has some interesting technical details)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgEpnRxx5Fc

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