Amazon Photos sounds interesting. From what people are saying, photos are stored in their original uncompressed state.
@matigo The Be founder Gassée said that he wanted the BeBoxes to be Amiga done right—low latency media workstation with specialised chips but with Mac-like usability. To be fair, even when it was just an OS on other company's hardware it was great at squeezing that maximum performance out of a machine. Shown a demo, Intel's boss said 'I didn’t know our chips could do that.'
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@matigo Apple created the menus (or perhaps stole them from somewhere else), Microsoft copied the idea and made them long and nested some folders in. BeOS re-imagined it and made it really powerful. With BeOS/Haiku you can invoke the entire file system hierarchy from the desktop or any file or folder and copy/move/link anything entirely with the commands in the menu. When I first came across this it felt like having Ninja skills. But I suppose if you’re already a command line Ninja it’s not a big deal.
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@matigo How is Haiku Windows-like? BeOS was made by ex-Mac people and it's feel is probably more like the Mac than anything else (uses a lot of the same keyboard shortcuts)…except they decided to put the menus on individual windows like Microsoft.
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@matigo The Beta should be avoided. It’s ancient. The nightlies are light years ahead (as long you don’t pick a bad one). The nightlies also have package management a la Linux. There’s an app called HaikuDepot for handling software.
This guy has an interesting repo—lots of Java and KDE stuff—which is not ideal but better than zilch:
http://clasquin-johnson.co.za/michel/haiku/repo/index.html
Was watching the Gawain and the Green Knight documentary and Simon Armitage asked two Staffordshire farmers if they recognised any of the old English words. The tall one looked like the farmer from Shaun the Sheep after joining Village People.
Emoji suggestions instead of word suggestions coming thick and fast in Macchiato. I wonder if Apple lets you turn it off.