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is there some way to make modern linux to look exactly like this and i mean with bitmap fonts and everything en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HelenOS

i've tried long to make a modern linux that plays nice with old-looking windowing managers and never succeeded

lol i've been banging pots and pans about this for years now because the t.co shortener goes down in brazil every other day but nobody cares if the first world can still access it

manual QRT: social.veltens.org/@angelo/110

i don't think i'm ready to reclaim tranny yet but i'm coming around on faggot and i'm a huge fan of dyke

tone indicators give me the same cliquey vibes as when that small sect of mastodon's pnw transes tried to coin "fractalia" except thankfully that one didn't take lol

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if you wanted to indicated tone we had a perfectly good system in place already it's called parenthesis (serious) (all the autistics are using it)

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"why don't you use tone indicators" why don't you stop using a secret coded language i wasn't informed of

suddenly encountered a weird glitch where mastodon would be frozen and looked to be spamming requests in millisecond intervals

"that's weird". i switch the tab to twitter. hey that started doing it too. nothing would update. switch to a youtube tab i also had open. same thing! the internet is broken!

my headset was sitting on the F5 key.

in case you missed it… yesterday i finally published my Flash era web 1.0 throwback collection of games to Steam. it’s completely free! (because that’s what the web should be and tetrageddon is old-web :)
store.steampowered.com/app/354
i’m still very proud of this. imo it’s a beautiful hilarious weird thing that exists on its own terms.

#IndieGame #IndieGames #GameDev #Games #VideoGames #Gaming

ummm actually *tendrils come out of my mouth and suck away your will to live* *pushes my glasses up* 🤓

@scout @zens@merveilles.town umm i'm very aware of retr0brite (as it was originally spelled) it has not stopped retro nerds from admonishing me that my consoles yellowed "because i left them exposed to sun" (i did not)

@zens@merveilles.town the question of "is it UV or is it oxygen" is an interesting one as people in retro communities swear up and down UV exposure is what yellows plastics and i've had a dreamcast yellow to smoker teeth tinge completely light-sealed in a closet

UV affects thermal paper and keeping it dark should in theory keep it longer, but you're still fighting against the chemical stability of the paper itself regardless

i'm not sure, for thermal paper, if oxygen plays a part

@zens@merveilles.town the quality of the image "burn" also influences it, a very finely dithered picture faded quicker than a highly contrasted text print for example

@zens@merveilles.town longevity also depends on the quality of the thermal paper, i've printed on very cheap receipt rolls and had it fade in months whereas using a high quality fax thermal roll lasted for over a year so far under the same conditions

@zens@merveilles.town i imagine you can make it last longer if you can laminate it in something that blocks UV light, but it's still not going to be a stable print

@zens@merveilles.town not that i know of, anything of the sort about increasing the longevity of thermal prints boils down to "scan it"

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