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68040
512 MB  Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! 
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on: September 26, 2022, 11:43
I love Virtual Desktops (and hated Windows - amongst many other valid reasons - because it wouldn't support them for a long time and even 3rd party apps couldn't really change that). So I have string of VDs set up on my Linux host. I got one for browsing, one for system maintenance and another one were I isolate those dreaded work related applications. But my preferred Virtual Desktop is the one were I host my beloved Basilisk-II. It has a background pic of a room that looks like the perfect retreat for an 80's teenager with too many floppy disks on his hands. On the wall hangs the picture of a Delorian from you know which movie.  Here I go with a hot cup of coffee or milk chocolate by my side and my dog curled up between my feet. Once I am here all the news cycle pundits, YouTube Influencers and "Know-it-all"commentators can go and jump in the Trashcan. Hopefully they'll push the "Empty" button all by themselves and let me keep on dreaming in peace and tranquillity.  Safe places - we need them more than ever these days. |
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Last Edit: September 27, 2022, 10:42 by 68040
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: September 26, 2022, 14:38
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Amen to that! That's the nice part of our hobby. You just set up the stuff the way YOU want it, love it and enjoy it. It's YOUR personal thing and an awesome hobby. After all, what hobby allows you - to be creative when you feel like it - productive when you want it or - entertaining when you need to relax? And all of that for no money except an initial investment in hardware. I'm digging the 80's and 90's in computing but really, at times I think that with all the cheap availability and know-how to be easily found, the best time with my System 7 machines is probably today.
Last Edit: September 26, 2022, 14:40 by Bolkonskij
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: September 26, 2022, 16:29
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Back then we didn't value the freedom our (now vintage) systems gave us, because we couldn't have imaginesd a time when some far away HQ could dictate to us: "stop working and shut down your system NOW - because we decided to download and install some updates to your system". After all, we had just been victorious in the eternal battle for bedtime and what to watch on TV. Letting some stranger make decisions about our computing habbits would have been unthinkable to us back then. But now its the norm and in too many cases it has become an unavoidable "feature". Just the other day I wrote an important family related letter on my Word 6 setup and enjoyed the lack of pop-up notifications or blinky-blink alerts and nobody dared to shut down my box right from under me.
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Neal_SE30
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256 MB Posts: 401 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #3 on: September 26, 2022, 23:49
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Maybe it’s nostalgia but i’m sure it was both simpler and more exciting. Like no constant updates for starters, no constant social media pings of distraction, just you and your terrible free software on your magazine to find that hidden nugget widget/font of even a good demo, Safe space indeed. I had A game on my iPhone the other day with a 1.4gb update, it’s a phone! That would be the most awesome software collection ever back in the day not just some dlc pack for a game you don’t play. It seems wasteful now, squeezing things on a floppy or 2 made programers work better i think
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #4 on: September 27, 2022, 03:37
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Yeah Neal, "just you and your computer ..." and all the tools you needed could fit on a floppy disk. And those gigabyte Smartphone games leave me very dumbfounded indeed. :O
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