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   Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:29:07 JST Blurry Moon
   I learned firsthand why Windows NT moved graphics back into the kernel with version 3, lol. It seems basically impossible to make a secure userland graphical system that performs acceptably.
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:48:46 JST :blank:

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     @sun the hardware doesn't help either, never did we get a nice interface for it, even with vulkan doing the right thing
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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:51:06 JST Blurry Moon

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     • CapitalB
     @CapitalB I'm working on my own extremely minimal hardware spec.
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     CapitalB (capitalb@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:51:07 JST CapitalB

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     @sun

     This is relative. Modern CPUs can softdecode many codecs unimafinably fast compared to 30 years ago.
     Ppl demand too much, that is.

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     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Tuesday, 26-May-2026 07:52:18 JST Blurry Moon

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     @i I'll share my lisp machine project soon, when I get windowing and filesystem working. I'm currently working on gdi-like graphical api.
     
     files are going to eventually have a resource fork in them with typed data, similar to old mac hfs, so for example you could have a text file with embedded scheme blocks, similar to jupyter notebook