BeOS - The Forgotten ‘90S Operating System (Retrospective & Demo) (mastodon.sdf.org)

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BeOS - The Forgotten ‘90S Operating System (Retrospective & Demo)

https://youtu.be/MzosnPSETzk

(also testing submissions from Mastodon… hope this works as expected)

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[-] rev@ihax0r.com 7 points 1 year ago

I was thinking of BeOS last week. I always wanted a BeBox but was a poor highschooler

[-] SJ_Zero@lemmy.fbxl.net 6 points 1 year ago

Beos shall never be forgotten!

[-] lackthought 6 points 1 year ago

dang, I was hoping this would create an actual linked post on Lemmy instead of a text post with the link inside

maybe that can't be done from Mastodon

[-] user224 2 points 1 year ago

YouTube videos cannot be embedded. At least not yet.

[-] lackthought 4 points 1 year ago

ah ok, good to know!

the text post w/ link inside is still pretty cool from other fediverse applications anyway

[-] user224 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But I am curious how embedded media like images, videos and audio look like for you on Mastodon.
Image:
Test image

GIF:
Test GIF

Video:
Test video

Audio:
Test audio

These are all nicely embedded on Lemmy. At least on the website.

Direct comment link so you can check it through Lemmy: https://lemmy.sdf.org/comment/1084675

[-] lackthought@mastodon.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

@user224 @retronet tried both the Mastodon website in firefox and also Mona (MacOS client) and I get… nothing

(trying my own screenshots from Mastodon (Mona) to see how those appear)

[-] lackthought 3 points 1 year ago

welp I'm back on Lemmy and I see my Mastodon screenshots didn't come over? :(

here they are from Lemmy

[-] user224 2 points 1 year ago

So I guess only option is direct links. It is good idea to include those anyway for compatibility.

[-] aperson@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Fwiw, though the media didn't embed for me, they all did show up as links.

[-] user224 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Are you going through the website or some app?

I tested it with these:
Opera 74 (Android 11): Works
Firefox 104 (Manjaro): Works
Internet Explorer 11 (Windows 7): Doesn't format the website correctly, though media was embedded into the mess

[-] aperson@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Viewing with voyager.

[-] user224 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I see nothing over here from your side.

[-] lackthought@mastodon.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago

@user224 @retronet I guess media just straight up doesn't federate

oh well its still cool to be able to view, reply, or submit text between systems for now

[-] some_guy 6 points 1 year ago

I installed BeOS on my PowerPC Macintosh in the days right around the NeXT acquisition. It was a spiffy OS, at least for a teen nerd without much knowledge beyond Mac OS.

[-] ryan659 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It does still live on, somewhat, in its spiritual successor, Haiku: https://www.haiku-os.org/

Its last release was in December 2022.

[-] cfenollosa 4 points 1 year ago

I actually used beos as a daily driver for a few months. This was maybe around 2000 or 2001. WinME crashed a lot for me and I couldn’t make linux detect my winmodem. Installed beos and everything was great. Dual booted with windows 98 when I wanted to play StarCraft.

Moved to Linux soon after but I will always remember those great days.