It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Better games ... probably also related to the real hackers of 80s and 90s able to squeeze the limit of x86 CPUs in "demo competitions" where the main program was not allowed to exceed 64KiB. And they squeezed that lemon to amazing heights!
Today's generation just wines about how expensive it has become to buy more RAM.
Even though I've been doing programming professionally for for quite some time, I'm not even worthy looking at these older hacker's boots.
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@grumpygamer oh I miss degaussing… someone
should write a Desktop Compositor for Linux that simulates drifting colors/alignment over time and has a degaussing button 
@HorayNarea @grumpygamer There is a potential hardware market here ... A USB connected button to attach to your monitor, which triggers the degauss emulator software ....
I smell a kickstarter project here!
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer @Viss We MUST NOT fail at teaching them how a file system works!
Documents can be free - they don't NEED to "be in the app"!
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
I suddenly feel all warm and sentimental
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@grumpygamer the real joy for me was sitting watching the defrag visuals
@colingourlay Same! Very zen-like, even with the varied experience between Win 9x and WinNT.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Or running memmaker.
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer People with btrfs still balance their filesystem every now and then and ZFS got an zfs-rewrite command in 2.4 which can be used to defrag the filesystem^^
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer I can confirm. There is a positive correlation between the time I spent degaussing a monitor and the amount of time I spent playing games.
Not sure whether or not correlation is the same as causation, but hey it's worth a shot...
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer Half-a-joke, nowadays, many game "devz" consider SSD as RAM
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer They can still enjoy sitting down until shaders compile, I guess? -
@grumpygamer People with btrfs still balance their filesystem every now and then and ZFS got an zfs-rewrite command in 2.4 which can be used to defrag the filesystem^^
@vamp898 @grumpygamer we need a funny TUI to show us it's really defragging though (I did btrfs defrag literally yesterday)
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer kids these days never had to clean the ball in a mouse and it shows
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@grumpygamer Better games ... probably also related to the real hackers of 80s and 90s able to squeeze the limit of x86 CPUs in "demo competitions" where the main program was not allowed to exceed 64KiB. And they squeezed that lemon to amazing heights!
Today's generation just wines about how expensive it has become to buy more RAM.
Even though I've been doing programming professionally for for quite some time, I'm not even worthy looking at these older hacker's boots.
@dazo @grumpygamer Funnily enough, I remember reading a letter to Your Computer (the British one) in Februray 1985, lamenting that these new 64 KB monster machines made for sloppy programming and had taken all the fun out of computers.
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@ZoidbergForPresident @grumpygamer somebody made a doom mod where the monsters are processes and killing the monster kills the process; I bet something similar could be done for defragmenting
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place and both activities used exactly the same tool!
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer I had even forgotten about degaussing a monitor
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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place and both activities used exactly the same tool!
@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
[bompf] - your hard disc is now defragged! -
It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.
@grumpygamer progressbar95 offers both:)
The former, when you don't get a perfect bar
The latter, when you have a crt, found in settings
On steam and free on mobile
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@grumpygamer there's actually an idle defragging game for steam now, to help The Kids experience the old times:
Idle Defragmenter 95 on Steam
Idle Defragmenter 95 is a relaxing idle desktop toy inspired by 90s defrag utilities. Run it as an overlay or window, watch sectors organize automatically, and unlock DOS / 95 / XP eras and upgrades while you work or play.
(store.steampowered.com)
No word on degaussing a monitor, though
Daniele Pantaleo 🦥:verified: (@ozone89@techhub.social)
@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place progressbar95 offers both:) The former, when you don't get a perfect bar The latter, when you have a crt, found in settings On steam and free on mobile
TechHub (techhub.social)
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