Pineapple on pizza. Eeewww! :]

Cool nic! I take you you started out as a play on quixotic, and then you found some crazy characters? That’s unique.

Expect as you like. Jokes are, as they are. Not much to be said about Haiku, its a joke.
Really. Get over yourself.
Its ok if I don’t like something. I’m not disagreeing with your or criticizing your post. Check Lemvotes. I upvote you.
I’m a bit bemused by all this fragility displayed, but I’m sure we will all get past it.

The website in question was in fact shit. Some things are easily judged in objective terms.

As to SvarDOS, I’m on the fence. There are aspects of it that seem unstable, and for most DOS usage these days, stability is the only thing you actually want out of it.

Are you upset about my opinion of Haiku? That project is a joke that I’ve been watching for over 2 decades. I am extremely surprised they got it along this far. Its better than ever. Still kinda silly with their branding and copyrights.

Stop and think about this for a second. You post into the void. Nobody replies. Look back and see it.
I read one of your posts, spend an hour or more on the site you link, dig deep into it, come up with an opinion, and post a cogent reply.
What did you expect when you posted? More of nothing?
This is what its like when actual people converse about things wherein they have opinions.

I’m not in the least bit upset about anything. I enjoy your posts. You post about things I care about.
Nice to meet you, regardless of the friction.

Ok, ya I just read all that again. I should take another crack at this silly thing.

I use them. I play with them. I judge them as I like. This is a place to discuss them. Would you rather empty silence?
You are also an OS fan. We have far more in common than not.

In this particular case, SvarDOS is trying to play in a space where real tools may actually be required.
Is it a real tool? That is an open question.

Let me at him. I’ve beaten better. I’m the final boss.

My CPX11 Cloud Server is apparently going from $4.99 to $6.99.
I just looked through my email. I haven’t gotten a note about the increase yet, my February bill is paid.
I love having all my music on my NextCloud on my Hetzner.
I will pay $7/month.

I’ve been using FreeDOS for a really long time. Decades.
https://www.freedos.org/

I’m all for new stuff, new emulators, new toys.
But if I had a job to do, I’d probably go with FreeDOS, because its THE standard.

There isn’t a whole lot of info on the SvarDOS page that might allow you to differentiate their offering from FreeDOS.

• It doesn’t have version numbers, which does not actually sound like a good thing to me.
• It has an online package manager. You know, like FreeDOS does with FDNPKG16.

So … I want to know more, but this seems a bit sketch to me.

Edit: Their site is shit. Took me a while to find this.
*** Why would I want to use SvarDOS instead of FreeDOS? ***
http://svardos.org/phpamb.php?fname=help%2Fhelp-en&f=freedos.ama

Dunno. I’m not buying the reasoning. …
… But then again, I’ve heard less coherent reasons to fork the code.

“A disk image menu is finally added to DriveSetup so that disk images can be worked from that GUI without resorting to the command line.”

For me, the new DriveSetup hung during install.
Switching back to the main installer app let it get past whatever its issue was, and it completed the format.

Loudly. That’s how I argue.

I loved BeOS. Haiku is not BeOS.
Its not even very much like BeOS. That being the case, I don’t quite understand why it exists.

Here. Go read their confused mumble of an explanation.
https://www.haiku-os.org/about/
… Now, what did you get out of that?

Like, if they just straight up said “We don’t like Linux or Mac, and want our own groovy icons”, I could get along with that rational. This vague bullshit about some higher purpose just sounds hollow and lacks meaning.

Over and over its the same story. AI makes everything dumber.

Yes. Ok. Let’s do that.

I think we will see the rise of human verified and curated social spaces and information sources.
Honestly, oldskool encyclopedias sound pretty good right now. 100% human curated info.
Its getting to where I would pay for that …

No its not!

That makes perfect sense. I like to browse anon, till I hit something that makes me want to interact. That habit seems to subject me to a lot of the cross-posted stuff.

I browsed for a while, and I like it. I’m gonna sign up. eviltoast goes down every now and then. (I do believe its been me and large graphic files that was at fault on occasion.) It would be nice to have a second home.

So, moist is mbin? That’s pretty cool lookin. I like it.

Hmm. Well I enjoy being from one of the smaller instances. That one looks quirky. Cool.
I think you were lookin for this tho … https://moist.catsweat.com/
That is an interesting site design. I’m gonna poke around.

Well … its cool and all. And the people are nicer. And smarter. Mostly.
But you can read the entire feed in an hour. And we’ve got cross-postings and bots. And crusaders.
I guess that leaves more time for IRL in your day.