Gregory's Serverif we can use normal every day operating systems to virtualize weird operating systems we can use weird operating systems as our daily drivers and virtualize normalcy, just keep it in a little box when we absolutely have to interact with it.
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 "can you open a file" "well, i can open my files. what do you mean" you feel me, bleep bloop OS "your computer looks weird, what is it?" "it's trenchcoat os - it uses an amoeba microkernel and a port of qemu with GEM as a display environment. It's running on those small spider-like robots that are crawling up the wall." "I'm calling the cops." @djsundog my local coffee shop rearranged the table in the corner such that you can't sit in it with your laptop facing the corner anymore. I think they got spooked that a guy in a hoodie with a laptop covered in strange stickers would sit there for hours at a time. If they could see my screen they'd probably be extra spooked. @djsundog   @djsundog i’m 100% here. for years, inching my way further and further into the web browser as an OS. sure, today i’m bounded by the likes of android and ios and osx and windows and linux, but once web runs on a potato, gg legacy operating system paradigms— you were… very co-optable. the web is my favorite virtual os.    @TheGibson @djsundog this is... basically my core reason for wanting to actually learn docker or something for the same purpose instead of yeeting it into the sun. |
@djsundog just like my brain