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Weird Windows 98 styrofoam plate
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plateshutoverlock
Jun 19, 2022, 7:42:47 PM6/19/22
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A couple nights ago I had a dream that a Goodwill store was throwing away excess donations, and I came across a Windows 98 CD that in the dream world was being mass distributed for free like the AOL CDs in that era. There was a little colorful paper pamphlet of some sort wrapped in plastic along with the Windows CD, and a styrofoam plate that was painted a rather dark bronze color and "Windows 98" with an unusualy stylized window logo and some text in jet black lettering. The CD was tucked under the plate, on the fold side and the wording was on the bottom part of the plate. The whole thing was supposedly some "collectors edition" of Windows 98
I walked away for a moment, came back, and the Goodwill store staff was in the process of moving the garbage, and I was about to frantically try to find that Windows package as well as a couple items I wanted then I woke up.
I walked away for a moment, came back, and the Goodwill store staff was in the process of moving the garbage, and I was about to frantically try to find that Windows package as well as a couple items I wanted then I woke up.
plateshutoverlock
Jun 19, 2022, 7:44:40 PM6/19/22
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"The CD was tucked under the plate, on the fold side"
supposed to say food side.
Richard Silk
Jun 20, 2022, 1:00:58 PM6/20/22
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On Sunday, June 19, 2022 at 6:44:40 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:
> "The CD was tucked under the plate, on the fold side"
> supposed to say food side.
(In regards to the Windows ’98 CD):
> "The CD was tucked under the plate, on the fold side"
> supposed to say food side.
The older operating systems work MUCH better than the newer “appeasements” to the “smart” phone industry, which is rather lazy by comparison, and thus far more prone to error. “Ahhh, for the good ol’ days!” If only they’d kept yesteryear’s algorithms and simply updated the processor speeds. How I miss good ol’ DOS 6.x!
PSoL:> “I walked away for a moment, came back, and the Goodwill store staff was in the process of moving the garbage, and I was about to frantically try to find that Windows package as well as a couple items I wanted then I woke up.”
Denotes a *touch* of materialism, an “attractant” type of “sin.” The key to inner peace is to be happy where one is, with what one has. This comes from a VERY elementary teaching of Jesus in Matthew 5:44— “Love thine enemies.” Too long an explanation perhaps, to “unpack” in a brief analysis of dream content, but it’s there (at the heart of the matter.) tinyurl.com/matthew544
plateshutoverlock
Jun 20, 2022, 4:23:09 PM6/20/22
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some old memories, it feels like a giant weight has been lifted off my
shoulders. Even with it's stability issues and rather awkward UI design,.I
feel like I am once again back in control of everything, that nothing
I don't know about is happening behind my back, and that I won't
be blitzed with notifications or "Your experience will be better..." or
all of the second guessing and unwanted overrides of modern operating
systems.
The industry needs to do a full course reversal into that direction.
Richard Silk
Jun 24, 2022, 4:30:24 PM6/24/22
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On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:
<snip>
I started feeling "amiss" when they (the industry at large) began over-blowing the BASIC computer language into "visual BASIC" and other formats.
Keeping the computer at a "computational tool" level was *LIBERATING* yet turning it into a demographics data mining operation feels "depleting."
Just last month, gmail made changes to their system which *deliberately* rendered Outlook Express as "obsolete" / non-functional.
Very upsetting. I may have to switch to a different email provider after all these years....
<snip>
> I can say for sure that when I boot up Windows 3.11 in Dosbox to relive
> some old memories, it feels like a giant weight has been lifted off my
> shoulders. Even with it's stability issues and rather awkward UI design,.I
> feel like I am once again back in control of everything, that nothing
> I don't know about is happening behind my back, and that I won't
> be blitzed with notifications or "Your experience will be better..." or
> all of the second guessing and unwanted overrides of modern operating
> systems.
>
> The industry needs to do a full course reversal into that direction.
AMEN!
> some old memories, it feels like a giant weight has been lifted off my
> shoulders. Even with it's stability issues and rather awkward UI design,.I
> feel like I am once again back in control of everything, that nothing
> I don't know about is happening behind my back, and that I won't
> be blitzed with notifications or "Your experience will be better..." or
> all of the second guessing and unwanted overrides of modern operating
> systems.
>
> The industry needs to do a full course reversal into that direction.
I started feeling "amiss" when they (the industry at large) began over-blowing the BASIC computer language into "visual BASIC" and other formats.
Keeping the computer at a "computational tool" level was *LIBERATING* yet turning it into a demographics data mining operation feels "depleting."
Just last month, gmail made changes to their system which *deliberately* rendered Outlook Express as "obsolete" / non-functional.
Very upsetting. I may have to switch to a different email provider after all these years....
plateshutoverlock
Jun 25, 2022, 6:59:20 PM6/25/22
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what was going on, even though I didn't have the source code,
nor did I run those OS's under a machine language monitor.
Nowadays, OSes in general are more and more like black boxes,
overly complex to the point even the developers don't know
exactly what's going on with the very OS they are adding and
changing code for. Most Linux distributions which you have
access all of the source code to are impossible for one
person to fully understand the internal workings.
Yes, we need to go back to simpler OSes, that does not have
all of the bloat and eye candy that is really there for marketing
purposes, stuff that is also plaguing the %100 free and open
source Linux distros. If this is something for a Smart TV,
then fine, the OS can be a noisy seizure inducing circus.
But I expect my work computer to be a tool, and look like
one too.
Richard Silk
Jun 30, 2022, 11:20:39 AM6/30/22
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On Saturday, June 25, 2022 at 5:59:20 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:
Consider: 1) a CORE OS, then with 2) selective add-ons ("apps") for individual purposes.
At least, that's the way things *started* back in the day....
> On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:30:24 PM UTC-7, dicksilk wrote:
> > On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:
> > <snip>
DS:>
> > On Monday, June 20, 2022 at 3:23:09 PM UTC-5, plateshutoverlock wrote:
> > <snip>
> > Very upsetting. I may have to switch to a different email provider after all these years....
PS:>
> With MS-DOS/Windows 3.11, I had a very good idea about
> what was going on, even though I didn't have the source code,
> nor did I run those OS's under a machine language monitor.
>
> Nowadays, OSes in general are more and more like black boxes,
> overly complex to the point even the developers don't know
> exactly what's going on with the very OS they are adding and
> changing code for. Most Linux distributions which you have
> access all of the source code to are impossible for one
> person to fully understand the internal workings.
>
> Yes, we need to go back to simpler OSes, that does not have
> all of the bloat and eye candy that is really there for marketing
> purposes, stuff that is also plaguing the %100 free and open
> source Linux distros. If this is something for a Smart TV,
> then fine, the OS can be a noisy seizure inducing circus.
> But I expect my work computer to be a tool, and look like
> one too.
Agreed!
> what was going on, even though I didn't have the source code,
> nor did I run those OS's under a machine language monitor.
>
> Nowadays, OSes in general are more and more like black boxes,
> overly complex to the point even the developers don't know
> exactly what's going on with the very OS they are adding and
> changing code for. Most Linux distributions which you have
> access all of the source code to are impossible for one
> person to fully understand the internal workings.
>
> Yes, we need to go back to simpler OSes, that does not have
> all of the bloat and eye candy that is really there for marketing
> purposes, stuff that is also plaguing the %100 free and open
> source Linux distros. If this is something for a Smart TV,
> then fine, the OS can be a noisy seizure inducing circus.
> But I expect my work computer to be a tool, and look like
> one too.
Consider: 1) a CORE OS, then with 2) selective add-ons ("apps") for individual purposes.
At least, that's the way things *started* back in the day....
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