re: Windows hot take
Seriously. I managed to run it on a netbook *perfectly*. It ran just fine. No performance issues. That netbook was also released in ~2011. Vista wasn't bad. Computers were.
Re: Highlights from quiplash in the computer fairies discord
Here the graphic from this twitter bit.
Alright. I can't figure out why multiboot breaks in higher half (I think it's getting pushed out of place, but I can't figure out how to push it back), so I've reverted the kernel back to not higher half. Now that it's booting again, here it is! A very early version of FENIX! (I told you it wasn't much.)
slur, re: no context, a bit lewd
Fun fact: I used to refer to myself as an "actual furfag." In fact, here's an image of my fursona before I got Aura:
(I still kinda want that shirt.)
Let's talk about something less trivial: resource usage. This is something I care a lot about. (If you head to my website, you'll notice it uses very few resources.) Eclipse *majorly* fails here.
Let's compare some Pale Moon memory snapshots. (Images once again CW'd because d'oh.) Going off of these, Eclipse is using over twice as much memory as Pixiv and the old dA layout (revived by internet archive) and over 20 times more RAM than FA.
For comparison, here's Pixiv and FA. (under a CW because I forgot to censor some mildly lewd art on the Pixiv screenshot and bordline lewd on FA). Notice that Pixiv presents it immediately. There are other places to find that, but none of them present these janky notification dots. FA's system is basically dA but better. One place where you find new art and when you clear that, it stops bugging you. That's that.
So, UI design. It's not trivial, but unfortunately, there's one major oversight that is admittedly fairly minor, but I wouldn't be surprised if, as I explore further into Eclipse, it's actually a symptom of underlying issues.
The arrows in this picture point to where you can go to see what people you watch have posted. They do not link to the same place. The notification dots do not disappear in one place when you look at the other. If I clear watches under "Watch", the red dots don't go away
Hello from Haiku!
I have no plans to switch over to Haiku as a daily OS. (Not yet, anyways, but maybe one day!) I am running it on physical hardware, though. Specifically, I'm running it on my main laptop on a spare hard drive. WebPositive's a bit laggy, but, otherwise, it feels pretty nice. Maybe one day I will actually be able to run it instead of Arch.
re: language hot take
To translate my last toot:
"HAHA! I have my runic keyboard again!"
There it is in the Ibus configuration:
English - α α’αα©α±α³ α±α’αΎα
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff. πβ
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)