@vaartis @espectalll

I wager those logos were made by folks who didn't grow up with color television.

@sillystring @vaartis they all promoted the color features of their respective hardware

@espectalll @sillystring yeah
that is true

@bhtooefr then don't put a rainbow

you can't get everything in life, deal with it *puts on sunglasses*

@apetresc Sinclair Spectrum ZX, pretty popular across Europe in the 80s

@js I've seen another older one that got viral as well lmao https://mastodon.social/@kennethlove/100588742672507115

@espectalll I’ll think I’ll set up a bot today that mirrors Tweets to Toots. Hopefully everyone can follow this mirror then and we’ll have a single Toot. I guess I’ll mirror people on request.

@js yeah, you could have a Mastodon instance where you login with a Twitter account, mirror all tweets, and then lets you easily move on to another server

@espectalll I thought about people just message me a Twitter handle they want to see mirrored here.

@js my idea is better lol

@espectalll Will only give you people willing to move to Mastodon. Those are usually not the problem.

@famicom luckily we're getting more colorful phones lately, which I think are more important (Huawei, Sony, even Samsung), and you can also get a wide variety of desktop case... even with... LEDs...

@espectalll I actually loved how iPhone 5c looked, but nowt the fact that it was just an iPhone 5 in a new case. I hope we see more bright budget phones. That's the reason I loved Lumias

@famicom SAME, I both wanted the 5c and got a Lumia 630. I like my XZ2 Compact's moss green tho.

@espectalll how's the compact? For me, I feel like 5" isn't exactly "compact" enough. I would've called it an XZ2 Average Screen Size

@famicom It's... small enough. Kinda like the iPhone 8 but thicker and with less width, the most important things (being able to hold it with one hand and fitting in pockets) still apply

@espectalll thanks for the pic. I currently own a 6s+ and it's honestly bigger than comfortable. I think I'll go with an SE 2 if/when it releases

@espectalll imagine if they did an iPhone CE (Colorful Edition). Like 5c, but good

@famicom They could perfectly do it, making colorful iMacs and iBooks was *their* thing, after all, and there's the (RED) edition iPhones.

@espectalll I'd love to see the return of polycarbonate macbooks with all the different colors

@famicom Honestly I think it has just exactly the size it has to have - a tiny bit larger anywhere and it wouldn't work. If you think an SE2 or equivalent would work better... well, I bet Apple is basically going to do the same and just make a slightly-smaller device but with more screen-to-body ration than the 8. We'll see soon.

@calmbit is this from the Atari ST lol

@espectalll Nope! It's from a custom virtual machine and architecture that @dr1ft has been developing, and I've been assisting with :)

@espectalll @calmbit it's from a custom architecture vm that me and her have been working on for the past few weeks

@dr1ft @calmbit oooh, neat! Where can I check it out?

@espectalll @dr1ft https://gitea.vertesine.com/dr1ft/STARVM is the current home of the VM, although it's still in super-beta mode right now. There are some extra files required to run it that aren't included, but exist on seperate repos on @dr1ft 's account. It's early days yet :)

@calmbit @espectalll I don't even think we can call it beta yet, or even alpha lmao

@dr1ft @calmbit that's call a pre-alpha... perhaps you need some milestones?

@espectalll @dr1ft we're still sorta figuring things out as we go along, but milestones would probably be a good step in the right direction :)

@espectalll @calmbit ah she beat me to it sorry to double up your notifications

@dr1ft @calmbit lol it's ok

@Lenneth Exactly! Apple did it first and that worked out, so everyone had to copy it... except IBM, of course.

@espectalll Hahaha, yeah IBM never changed at all. Their dull logo reflected all of their offices too, the building designs in the interior were so dreadful back then

@beefgnawpolis sure, the Novena laptop did it

@espectalll @beefgnawpolis thats disgusting

@kurisu @beefgnawpolis I guess that one in the picture looks too orange lol

I get it still looks quite unpolished tho

@espectalll @beefgnawpolis yes, the thinkpad keyboard is a big oof

@espectalll @beefgnawpolis kind of looks like a bento box

@deadsuperhero @beefgnawpolis indeed, I wouldn't find it strange if they were inspired by that!

@espectalll @beefgnawpolis "What if we could make computer users think about lunch all the time?"

@thomasfuchs :next: 👌

@thomasfuchs @espectalll Was that the last model before before the hardware in favot od NeXTOS?

@shepgo @thomasfuchs what

@shepgo @thomasfuchs oh I think you mean

"Was that the last model before they dropped hardware in favor of NeXTSTEP?"

...I don't think so

@benjymous > for Windows and macOS

I think like half of the fediverse doesn't have Windows or macOS 🤔

@benjymous Still, neat idea, in particular I find the mix of old with new (JS, VSCode support) pretty interesting