Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

@rl_dane @cerement Currently, the graphics system uses 24-bit color, plus an alpha channel for transparency. It supports setting individual pixels, as well as basic image buffer rendering which supports nearest-neighbor scaling. Rotation is not supported, as I deemed it too high-level for this system; although, via negative scales, you can effectively flip the image 90° 180° etc.

This is in the standard Devices specification, and is implemented in the emulator.

@rl_dane I watched the video up to the part where he yelled 'F*** YOU' (yikes, hater)
But anyway yeah he had some really good points -- mainly just reading Purism's email. That email was being culty and they really went wrong with how they lied to their customers. I'll be moving, thanks for the tip. Maybe I'll self-host @ golemwire.com.

@rl_dane I took a look at https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/ , and one thing I don't understand... do my posts continue to exist and be searchable as long as librem.one is up, even if I move? I know you've moved before. Your posts at @rl_dane are still viewable, but that's "GoToSocial". Is @RL_Dane moved or just redirecting? Sorry for all the questions.

@hollowone I think it's a bit different this time around, since instead of just offering advanced art tools, the computer can take the whole 'art project' from starting prompt to finished graphic.
That said, I believe that "AI art" cheapens art. I used to just be able to look at an art piece and think, 'wow, someone liked this idea enough to labor over it', but now I often look at a piece of art and think, 'caring human or emotionless machine'? And scroll away a lot of the time :(

@rl_dane @stefano OK, so I looked into Purism, and it looks like they were refusing refunds due to needing the money, right? If so, that's kinda sad but also you can't just refuse refunds and keep people's money.
Thinking about it, maybe this has something to do with Kyle Rankin kinda quietly stepping away from the CEO role. And me emailing them a long time ago (I checked, about 2 years ago) asking about them updating this Mastodon server, and them saying the update was in the planning phase. 🤔

@rl_dane Oh? Never heard of that... what happened?
I've thought about switching from social.librem.one, but what will happen to my posts?
At any rate, any suggestions for a server to switch to? It would be nice to be on a Mastodon version beyond v3.1.1 XD
Fosstodon maybe?

If anyone is interested, let me know, and I'll take a temporary break from the videogame project and publish #SubSky online. #ISA #programmingLanguage #programming #UXN #lowTech

I've always wanted to build my own computer system, OS and all, which would be, ahem, perfected. I designed an ISA called SubSky and wrote an emulator/VM implementing it, and made a language + compiler. (It's kinda like UXN in nature, actually, just 32-bit and more 2000s-era than 80s-era.) A 16-opcode, 3-operand RISC with an operand/"pseudoregister" referring to the stack. I'll have to publish it sometime. I'm making a videogame for it.

Cc: @rl_dane (it didn't seem right to reply to the thread)

@rl_dane Yeah, whenever I have the opportunity to use my Mom's mac I'll use that feature. It even opens the menu for you to *show* you where the menuitem is. \*chef's kiss\* [no I don't have markdown on this Mastodon server]

On the topic of Unity, I think Unity had the feature too. You'd press Alt and then type (and hope the UI wouldn't bug out). I think it's pretty clever.

@rl_dane That's fair. I have a computer friend who thinks the same way.
I remember how Canonical's Unity (despite its flaws) had a feature (maybe it was just part of #compiz (oh compiz! I forgot! So much fun!)?) where the titlebar would turn into a menubar when you hovered over it (IIRC). Unity was so pretty. If only it wasn't so buggy. (It was so bad it was the reason I [temporarily] left Linux as a kid.)

(I wish parentheses worked in spoken language like they do in text lol)

@rl_dane Yeah! Like, what's wrong with menubars? Too much text? Menubars are just so fast.
Must be that some designers believe it takes up too much space. But it's space well-spent (especially, in my opinion, if it is a "global menubar" at the top of the screen like Mac OS. I love those. You can set it up in KDE, BTW!).

@searchliaison I enjoyed it while it lasted, thanks :)

@rl_dane [*Thinks about doing it...*]
I feel like it's a key example of modern UI design gnome wrong.

@laamaa Hey! Two days ago I bought a bunch of music off Bandcamp. I'm trying to slowly replace my streaming of music with music I actually own copies of. I'm not really a Spotify fan!
I've listened to some of your stuff before, like Controversy, so I took up your 75% offer and I'm gonna have fun listening to all these :D thank you!!

@adam I wish almost everything was designed in this sort of way.

@rl_dane " Third, again, this is bad nod toward "simple" atomic distros, the Flatpaks and all that, whereby system and applications are separate. Nope. Wrong implementation."
I *completely* disagree with that, but yeah this guy sounds like me sometimes too 😆