https://www.businessinsider.com/cable-tv-household-50-percent-decline-brian-wieser-2025-11

 Lions have now witnessed the rise of cable TV in the 80's & the fall in the 2020's.  They didn't have cable TV until 1989.  Then they downgraded to local channels in 2006, citing rising costs.  It was canceled some time in 2010, after Comca$t began encrypting the local channels & charging for a digital output.   They offered explanations of the fully encrypted network being more efficient & digital TV using more power than analog.  The internet ate it up, but lions knew digital TV looked so good for the price, it was eating up all their set top box revenue.  Average internet commenter consumers didn't know about the cheap options enabled by digital TV.

The golden age was 1999-2005.  It took some time for younger lion to realize the digital HD channels were on cable.  If content continued to abound, a younger lion might have invested in HDMI capture to continue watching encrypted channels.  By 2006, it was all reality TV shows & news shows.  There remane a few DVD's from the 2006 era, when it was cheaper but less convenient to buy DVDs of all the good cable shows than watch them on cable.

 The idea still exists of climbing some mountain in view of Sutro tower to briefly peek at the local channels, using a phone DVR.  Ham radio hiking is apparently a thing for the lucky few who are HAM radio users & able bodied.

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We would be so lucky if she got back to weightlifting videos.  

 

 

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Finally got around to making Linux look like an HP9000, after 30 years.  All FVWM has are some hard coded MWM styles.  Any more customization requires recompiling it.  The original HP border width was the same as the default FVWM border width at 6 pixels.  The original HP fonts look too much like a turd to go back to, sadly.

The original, flatter MWM borders just conveyed more power than the rounded borders of FVWM.

Younger lion tried to make programs look like Irix, but at this point, Irix looks too much like a cartoon.  Younger lion was fascinated by Irix's use of italic helvetica, but the HP seems to have become the classic in lion minds.  Gootube has recently had an Irix fascination. 


You'd never guess this copy of Freecad wasn't pro/engineer on a $10k workstation.

 

Where it all began

No-one is developing for vintage UNIX boxes the same way they're developing for vintage 8 bitters.  Making a vintage 2D game on UNIX would be trivial.  Just blit a 640x480 bitmap at 60hz.  Store the entire scene as a DAG.  The ideal platform for a 2D game would be javascript though, as lions have done with many programs.  It might be smarter to prototype a game in javascript to figure out the timings, graphics, & sounds, then port it to a C64.













 

 

 

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