Spyke
tech·Technology byretrogamingpappa

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney - Spillhistorie.no

Al Lowe is an American software developer who started making games in the early eighties. His is mostly known for the Leisure Suit Larry games, created with Sierra, but he is also a musical man who loves playing his sax and still plays with his model trains. He has also created lots of other games for Sierra, not only the Larry series.

Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney - Spillhistorie.nohttps://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/Open linkView original on piefed.world
tech·Technology byBlisscast

Turn your dumb terminal into a workstation today, with X Window System! – GUI Wonderland

What if you used a late 80s Unix system for your job or university, but still wanted a nice and pretty GUI to use? Well then, let’s discover a nice selection of window managers and graphical user interfaces that will make your boring installation look awesome!

Turn your dumb terminal into a workstation today, with X Window System! – GUI Wonderlandhttps://blisscast.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/x-window-system-twm-unix-gui-wonderland-11Open linkView original on lemmy.world
tech·Technology byBlisscast

It's Time to "Linux"! – Journey to EndeavourOS #1

I have decided that, simply put, I am very, very tired of my computer acting against me and gaining new problems every day as if they were achievements in a video game, so I’m going to take advantage of my Linux experience with the Steam Deck and Raspberry Pi OS to finally start moving away from Windows!

It's Time to "Linux"! – Journey to EndeavourOS #1https://blisscast.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/endeavour-os-moving-to-linux-arch-part-1/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
tech·Technology bygedaliyah

Painting by the AI robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m at Sotheby’s

Cross-posted from "Painting by the AI robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m at Sotheby’s" by @[email protected] in ![email protected]


A painting by Ai-Da Robot, a humanoid robot powered using artificial intelligence (AI), sold for more than $1m (including auction house fees) at Sotheby’s New York on Thursday (7 November). The painting is the most valuable artwork ever sold by a robot artist, according to the auction house, driven up by 27 bids.

The painting A.I. God. Portrait of Alan Turing (2024) depicts Alan Turing, the English mathematician and Second World War cryptanalyst who is remembered as a pioneer of AI and computer science. The work was displayed earlier this year at a United Nations global summit on AI in Geneva.

Painting by the AI robot Ai-Da sells for more than $1m at Sotheby’shttps://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/08/ai-da-robot-painting-sells-one-million-sothebysOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
tech·Technology bygedaliyah

Raspberry Pi OS’s yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now official

You might want to wait a moment before upgrading, though.

Simon Long wrote on Raspberry Pi's blog that the organization started thinking about switching to Wayland about 10 years ago, though it was "nowhere near ready to use" back then. Over the last few years, the Pi team has done some things to prep a real switch:

Raspberry Pi OS’s yearslong switch from X Window to Wayland is now officialhttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/raspberry-pi-oss-years-long-switch-from-x-window-to-wayland-is-now-official/Open linkView original on lemmy.world
tech | Spyke