@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I got coffee coming out of my nose on this one. 🤣
One day, @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org, one day!
Windows NT 4 didn’t have a Device Manager. You know, this thing right here that got introduced with Windows 95:
https://movq.de/v/1b8e044aaa/s.png
And that’s super awkward in NT4.
You know what doesn’t have a Device Manager, either? Linux. Why? 🤔 Isn’t this one of the most useful system tools? It gives you an overview of the devices in your system and tells you which driver is used for them. Linux could really use such a tool, I think? 🤔
(There are programs like “hardinfo” and I remember ancient KDE providing such a tool, but they’re all an afterthought. Hardly integrated into the overall system.)
@prologic@twtxt.net Very nice! Which boat is yours? :-)
I am afraid it will have to wait until your return! There are some decisions to be made, I think. Way out of my league! LOL.
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com wow, look who the cat dragged in! 😂 I was thinking about you just yesterday, when testing the twtxt.app, and seeing your avatar photo broken. And today, here you are! Nice to “see” you mate!
@prologic@twtxt.net Oohhhhhhhh, lovely. 😍
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Right now it 16C and 8.30PM
15 years without reinstalling on this particular box.
$ head -n 1 /var/log/pacman.log
[2011-07-07 11:19] installed filesystem (2011.04-1)
Two more years and I’ll be celebrating the “20 years of Arch” anniversary.
@prologic@twtxt.net That looks nice! What’s the temperature?
@arne@uplegger.eu Really?! Wow! 😳
🎶 福耳 / 星のかけらを探しに行こう Again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_v-VC2PEtY
@prologic@twtxt.net You have trees at the campsites Down Under? That’s really luxur! 🎩
Everywhere I’ve been (Europe) they chopped down the trees - no shadow - nowhere.
今日は七夕、予想を超えて七夕の映像を見てるような。でも個人的には 仙台七夕 → 8 月なので、今日はピンとこないのよね。
Jumped rope last night for 32 minutes. Probably will keep doing that instead of running while the heat wave is on.
Oh wow! Now, that’s a place I would love to be camping! Very nice pics!
Looks like a beautiful day 😊
Couple more after a short stroll along the beach 👌
Just a couple of shots of where were staying 👇 
FYi 👋 I’m aware of an optimist precomputed hashing bug on the new twtxt.app 🤯 Trying to work with @bender@twtxt.net remotely on my vacation yo fix it 🤣
I accidently deleted my termux home directory 🙄
← expected hash
← expected hash
← expected hash
Test 2
multiline
Test 1
@GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com The no-JS part is one thing, but you also have to disable the (nowadays common) forced-HTTP-to-HTTPS-redirect, because those old browsers can’t do modern crypto. And make sure that your webserver serves the correct page even if no Host header is sent by the client. And don’t even think about serving UTF-8 or even just putting utf-8 in the content type. 😅 And for the JPEG thumbnails I pass a special flag to ImageMagick so that IBM Web Explorer from OS/2 won’t trip. 🤣 And always use link rel="stylesheet" for CSS, because some browsers render inlined CSS as literal text. And … probably more that I forgot by now. 😂
@david@daiwei.me Not sure, actually. Let’s see. Those are the ones where I still have the original disks (or have bought them on eBay again):
- SuSE Linux 6.4 (it’s a massive 7 CD distro with a huge manual, best thing ever)
- OS/2 2.1
- OS/2 Warp 3 (red and blue spine because
$reasons)
- OS/2 Warp 4
- PC DOS 7
- MS-DOS 6.22
- Windows 3.1
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11
- Windows 95 C
- Windows 98
- Windows NT 4 Workstation (still in the mail, though 😅)
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP Professional (last Windows I ever used on my private PCs)
(Plus a few “classic” office products as can be seen here: https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/POSTING-en.html )
As an example, this is a thread @GabesArcade@gabesarcade.com’s Arcade@gabesarcade.com and @david@daiwei.me carried all on twtxt.app, no issues: https://twtxt.net/conv/r4uf52ggwseh
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I figure there is a bug somewhere, but where?
lol don’t get me started on launchers. I miss the days of double clicking an exe and just playing the game 😆
That’s so cool. I’ve been meaning to test if my website works on old browsers. I highly doubt it since it’s a lot of JavaScript, but it’s on my todo list to start generating a no-js version.
Movies and TV are moving in this direction too, but at least for now, I can still access a lot of movies and shows on discs (especially from my local library). I can also make backups of my shows and movies if I have the discs available. As time goes on, new tools become available to preserve physical games. Physical games at least gives the chance of future preservation in a world where digital is locked behind DRM- assuming the full game is on the disc.
Okay, wow. Windows NT 4 wasn’t part of my timeline back then, so this is the first time I’m seeing it in action. And this thing came with IE 2, which I’ve also never seen before. (That’s interesting, because I remember using IE even on Win 3.x, but apparently that was already IE 3?)
It also makes me really happy to see my website work in these old browsers. Fullscreen images are “broken” because those are PNG or WebP, but the rest works just fine. 🥳