What I noticed right away was: It’s the ugliest hello world ever. It’s the slowest hello world ever. (For a long time it was also the record size hello world at something like 64MB, but that’s later and on a compiler.) And it doesn’t actually run on any platform except one: jre. And most binaries you find only run on one version of that one brand of jre.

Still, not the worst thing for writing web services in in late 90s. Doesn’t matter how slow it starts or how much space it takes. Responding to requests, being familiar to new programmers and living in a sandbox was enough.

I’d get a new drive. Install a sane os and needed tools and use that. They should be cheap these days. Put the old one in a safe place in case you need something from it. When you find it years on and notice that there was nothing important there after all, recycle it. That’s a much safer approach.

If you’re smart, you’ll make good commit messages in any commit, no matter how small and personal the repo. Because one day you’ll have no idea what that change was about and why and a small note will make it much easier to figure out.

I’ll mention organic maps and rimusic.

You can pick any. I guess the way is to just pick one based on it’s description or users or package availability or size and then learn to use it. And or try another one when you figure out if it has problems. Sick with the one you like the most. Or write your own.

I discovered dust. That’s a new favourite tool. https://github.com/bootandy/dust/

I should be trying to talk to mqtt but haven’t got to the rust side of that yet.

It could work better because a web browser is the most bloated useless bug ridden insecure creeping horror ever invented.

Although I suspect this is just a web browser with some extra chrome.

The takeaway is still https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

I put on my robe and wizard hat.

Most Unix systems had it in CDE, 1993. Most also had it in whatever came before.

The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000, released in 1985.

The first implementation of virtual desktops for Unix was vtwm in 1990.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_desktop

It had been the expected default for pretty much an entire decade. Also X often supported a different size viewport and desktop so the view would scroll. Not sure if anyone really liked using that.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

I once had a hard drive of some particular vintage that wasn’t able to start. I did actually get it running with a hammer tap. Got the remains of data out and replaced the drive. It was nothing special, a Unix system drive with nothing that wasn’t on tape, but I just had to see if I could fix a hard drive with a hammer.

I also remember one admin who would often be seen walking between computer maintenance room and workshop wing with drives and a blacksmiths hammer labelled “format”.

NeXT is probably the pretty direct ancestor of osx dock. Only Apple turned it from good to bad by moving it to the bottom, where there is no space. And that only got worse as screens became wider, but not taller. And they made it overlap and obscure content and bounce around if you got near it making it extra obnoxious and hard to use.

Other docks existed even before, of course.

You could use some sort of caffeine as a workaround. I do since sleep locks don’t always work.

It’s Nvidia. That’s not going to change.

Weird. I’ve used 1000,2000,3000,4000 series without any issues ever.

https://sfconservancy.org/GiveUpGitHub/

Only when it’s idle for a while? That would point to power saving or suspend. You could try changing those to see if it affects the situation.

But yes, hardware. And I would suspect the display controller in particular. I’ve seen many that glitch when in power saving.

Also, have you checked for bios updates?

Nvidia user?

Very interesting, thank you. I should give this a try when I get back to a dev machine. Sounds like it still downloads and uses the SDK which might be significant for licensing or other reasons, but I’m probably fine with that for personal use.