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2026-02-01,
of interfaces and differences

Bay Laurel, Sunday, 1 February 12026 HE, kalends, Imbolc
2026-02-01 | 26B01 | 2026-032 | 2461073
2026-W05-7 | Q1 | Inverno

dry silhouettes, Alviso, California

2014-01-04 – Apple iPhone 4
dry silhouettes, Alviso, California

Rotersand – “Exterminate Annihilate Destroy” ↗

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I have been around computers for a long time – I started with ProDOS and MS-DOS and worked my way through Macintosh and Windows and Gnome and KDE GUIs – and while, yes, there are aesthetic and technical differences between the various GUIs, people get really upset when I claim there are no functional differences between the GUIs – once everything settled on the WIMP paradigm (windows, icons, menus, pointers), programmers have been doing nothing more than twiddling the dials – mobile devices forced some evolutionary changes but, with everything moving to glorified web pages, most of that has been abandoned – VR/AR has been ignored by everyone except the techbros who continue to insist that it’s still a thing

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