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Software > Window managers >

(on Wikipedia)
abandoned [ 1 ] was https://web.archive.org/web/20190313003108/http://wmii.suckless.org/ [ 2 ] the author died: https://web.archive.org/web/20140208043925/http://www.lmt.uni-saarland.de/de/aktuelles/grelich.html
https://code.google.com/archive/p/wmii/

A window manager

Forked into i3m, which has since become its own independent project.



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Entertainment > Games >

https://store.steampowered.com/app/512250/
http://vilemonarch.com/oh-sir-insult/

Like scrabble with words, assemble phrases to do varying degrees of insult-damage.

This definitely should appeal to some people, but it doesn’t appeal to me. I think this would be especially attractive to people with an Android phone.



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Entertainment > Games >

(on Wikipedia)
https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180610001951/https://wftogame.com/

An awkward dungeon management game, with walls you can’t dig out, rooms you build but don’t know how much of or what size, and an interface that could only be inspired by a 1980s DOS game.

Absolutely not recommended.



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Projects > Software > Operating Systems >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.android.com/

An operating system most notably on mobile phones, but also found on media boxes.

Fundamentally flawed – It is tethered to Google in as many ways as they’ve made possible. From a time server, to internet traffic compression. From google play requiring an account requiring your verified phone number. From hoops to download and install software from their store. It’s fucking awful.



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Linux logo - 'Tux'

Software > Scripting Languages (sh) >

(on Wikipedia)
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/dash/dash.git
http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/

A POSIX-compliant, and small, shell. See also sh.

Since it’s creation for Debian, this has become the standard “vanilla shell”.



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