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@philpem i don't own an apple 2 nor am i super well versed in them but i saw recently that a common modification was to send shift key presses to a joystick button because the shift key on apple 2 works different than expected for common word processing usage

i'm computers

acidjazz

space ghost is aesthetic

care for a soft focus and a sparkle filter? #decemberween

thank you to the dozens of people who responded to my plea for a text editor on Linux that has better font rendering than gnome with telling me i need to just use vim or emacs instead you truly are a shining example of your tvtropes page

@adrianco i think graphical user interface and pointing devices are legacy enough for Linux to have mild support for them by now

@abeltramo i just want fonts to not look like this, if you had been following the saga https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/111661866229294061

@abeltramo i'm using windowmaker

@karinakimi @Iwillyeah i think tone indicators are in bad taste (they make a secret language i have to feel excluded from (and back in my day we autistics just used parenthesis to explain everything (maybe i'm just too old for younger autistics who do everything different from me)))

i promise i'm not trying to be difficult i just think that linux will never be as good as windows was in 1995 until it can learn to render aliased full hinted variable width typefaces without it looking like uneven pixel salad

the people who tell me i need to build my own DE from packages from the ground up are telling me to use my "distro"'s default text editor

@davidhmccoy i love np++it's my main editor but i figured there has to be something else native i could put on my toy 90s retro chic Linux install but nothing with the exception of wine actually knows how to render aliased fonts with hinting

Windows had it right all along

@abeltramo wine is the only thing that seems to render fonts without antialiasing in Linux properly after all

@abeltramo Kate tries to install the whole of kde which i don't want and vscode might be a bit overkill

i might just have to use notepad++ under wine oh well