Comment on In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• eutampieri@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  For those who don’t know: Mousepad (at least, I think this was the reference)

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  • jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    xfce <3

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• Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I got the most badass mousepad I’ve ever seen in Germany. It was a cartoon of someone trying to sell an abacus to the king with a mouse (an actual one) with its tail nailed to it, and his advisor suggesting he wait, as in (some number of months – I got it in 1995, so details are a bit hazy) it will cost half the price.

  I only remember some of this verbatim, but it was absolute gold because of double meanings.

  Ihr solltet noch warten … inclusive Maus … auf Festplatte

  The mouse is easy enough to jump language comprehension (though “inclusive” is pronounced differently), but Festplatte means both a wooden board, as the base of the abacus was, and hard drive.

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  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This one, I guess.

    “The latest generation of ‘calculators’ (German synonym: computer), 16 colors, on a ‘solid plate’ (syn: hard drive) including mouse.”

    “You should wait - it’s half the price in six months”

    by Uli Stein

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    • Powderhorn@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s the one! Awesome! Thanks for the link.

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