Read that one right the second time
Well, there were funky China men from funky Chinatown
TV pixels were also generally not square. And if the device was a TV and not an actual video monitor (both were used with home computers), it was a little slow and blurry. And overscan existed. There’s a lot of things that will be a bit different when you look at an emulated display.
In practice? Constantly changing hardware with soc vendors that publish nothing and device manufacturers that (have to) keep pushing out new models on a short cycle. Plus many of them have extra shenanigans to keep the bootloader locked so you can’t install a recovery (presuming you had a working one) so you could replace the os. There are some rare exceptions, but the hardware is rare and tedious and not many people can or will work on installable Linux on them.
If you just want to run some Linux userland, there’s ways to do that on top of android, though. Want to get to a Linux like system or run a program? Might be as close as installing a terminal or running adb shell.
Lifeguards hate this one trick
Sounds bs. Unless their only source was actually Reddit or quora or something.
The movie Brazil features a literal bug in a system as a plot device.
And there’s a lot of people in the world that effectively get told this all their life.
Some for things that aren’t even their choice.
Everybody definitely doesn’t.
I don’t think I’ve found amazing things recently. Things worth using and things better than the alternative and things that are promising to maybe one day be great, yes.
But I’ll single out one little thing: dust. https://github.com/bootandy/dust
Dust is meant to give you an instant overview of which directories are using disk space without requiring sort or head. Dust will print a maximum of one ‘Did not have permissions message’.
Dust will list a slightly-less-than-the-terminal-height number of the biggest subdirectories or files and will smartly recurse down the tree to find the larger ones. There is no need for a ‘-d’ flag or a ‘-h’ flag. The largest subdirectories will be colored.
It’s like a killer combination of du and sort oneliners that actually shows me what I want to know: What’s the big stuff in this dir.
Depends on the machine and… maybe other things. I used to think that, too, but on my current machines I can step backwards just fine.
It’s probably a much more intensive operation requiring processing a lot of the file from before and throwing away current buffers or something.
It was not. 30 years ago, it would have been very good, though, as a lot of media was still SD.
Device, maybe. What happens to the games bought from a DRM monopoly?
I don’t know. There are a lot of foods already out in the world.
No idea. Maybe someone can read the Klingon.
But the tune and numbering (fingers, 1 high on left, low on right hands part) makes me think that’s for piano.