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There’s also a bunch there about how targeting others and posting complaints about others makes for uninteresting reading so avoid it

Just saying

My concern is more so that this project will burn up real resources and be abandoned.

You’re highlighting how subjective things can be and I don’t disagree.

What isn’t subjective is the generations of the 1900s are the first to leave behind an existential threat driven by wasteful economic choices and they seem to be indifferent to doing so just to have fun.

Myself and lot of other software engineers I have worked with feel our jobs are meaningless; the future won’t care about these technologies. They’re hardly regenerative medicine or something so life changing daily life itself is improved forever like indoor plumbing and electricity.

But we feel captured by nostalgia for this work and form of economics, and apathy for a whole lot of people who will be dead before climate change is real problem

Yeah it’s not cool either though :-/

And I mean from my reference you (and the downvoters) just complained about someone having a different opinion than yours so shrug

Someone just noticed Apple’s decades old SOP. Watch the aggregate fumble about, fail over and over, then take the few ideas that survive rapid, aimless iteration attempts and add the last mile of polish.

A decade of crappy Palm, WinCE, and easily forgotten Java based mobile devices came and went before iPhone.

They know what software people refuse to accept; it’s the hardware experience that matters and they’ll wait until the hardware is there.

Modern hardware is responsible for AI, more reliable networks, and the rest of modern compute. Has little to do with the bloated software stacks we git pull into the data center

Edit: Also consider that Intel and Apple don’t just make a consumer device. They design an advanced manufacturing pipeline. The difference between print(“hello world”) and for index in array: print(contents of index)

That’s the basis of their value and why they are propped up by government and why software focused startups will always just be pump and dump schemes.

Prove “fun” isn’t just an emotional equivocation to burn resources living in one’s nostalgia only to quickly abandon it like numerous attempts at amiga and commodore style OS clones being built for fun in the 00s

If it’s not for modern computer users and lacks a meaningful ecosystem of software and purpose its first worlders avoiding contributing to real work they externalize on others

There’s enough academic wank in the world. Better to focus on pushing computing forward for the aggregate than serve personal ego

What I want is to be free of the desktop metaphor and the notion my computer is an office job data entry terminal only.

Am working on a GPU accelerated application to replace Gnome. Currently boots to a blank 3D canvas, like opening a new Blender project. Am working on using AI and a planner system to generate a viable user interface given user prompt. Users fill out the plan with possible states and relevant actions, go back and forth with AI to get there.

All runs locally and is loaded by x11 instead of the usual desktop options.

You think a throw back Win 95 clones with UNIX-like internals is what modern users want?

We’ve moved on from “back in my day, the 80s…” computer UI nostalgia to 90s it seems.

10 more years we’ll have Mac OSX Snow Leopard clone project get abandoned (have had a lot of young Millennials and older GenZ hackers talk it up at me as peak computing)

Just because they’re not grumpy doesn’t mean they aren’t nostalgia driven iconoclasts making serenity out of disdain for status quo