Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

https://github.com/PhilipPanda/TempleOS_Theme

by housemusicfan • 3 years ago

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das_keyboard3• 3 years ago

It seems to be an Openbox theme in case anyone else is interested

hayasaki• 3 years ago

Yeah, adding "for Arch Linux" seems unnecessary. Could @dang correct the title?

soneil• 3 years ago

"Temple OS Theme / Rice For Arch Linux" is the description of the repo on the page. I understand the sentiment, but I don't think the title's the right place to correct the original author.

CobrastanJorji• 3 years ago

Well there's a thing that exists.

das_keyboard3• 3 years ago

It seems weird to me, that the linked website is just for selling cheats for multiplayer games.

Not sure what to make out of this...

Paul-Craft5• 3 years ago

Huh? The article link is to a github repo.

ethanwillis2• 3 years ago

Yea and that github repo's readme has a link to "templecheats" at the bottom. Did you read it?

Grimburger• 3 years ago

Sounds like you have rogue extension somewhere.

ethanwillis2• 3 years ago

It's a link at the bottom of the readme... if you read it...

das_keyboard3• 3 years ago

Since there seems to be a misunderstanding:

I meant the website linked in the readme.md [1] of the linked repo

[1] https://github.com/PhilipPanda/TempleOS_Theme/blob/main/READ...

OfSanguineFire3• 3 years ago

As someone who first knew Terry Davis from Slashdot where his clearly mentally ill posts seemed to get downvoted a lot of the time, it is remarkable to see that the products of his madness have become regarded as real art with staying power. He is like the Adolf Wölfli of the hacker crowd.

meindnoch3• 3 years ago

He's also the origin of the word "glowie": https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/glowie

pengaru4• 3 years ago

Kind of? he never actually used the word glowie AFAIK. 4chan is the origin.

DANmode9• 3 years ago

Perhaps the modern/mainstream popularization.

AlbertoGP• 3 years ago

AFAIK that originated with the video where he said this:

NSFW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbG6u86t4bA

Then the word “glowie” was coined in 4chan based on that, as others commented here already.

Paul-Craft5• 3 years ago

TempleOS is actually pretty cool, when viewed as the product of one man's dream. How many people can say they've written a 64-bit, multi-core, protected mode OS that comes with its own programming language? Then, throw in a flight simulator game, just for giggles.

Honestly, if it weren't the product of religious delusions common with schizophrenia, I'd say TempleOS and HolyC would be more than enough of a resume to get hired into many programming jobs.

tombert• 3 years ago

I totally agree; regardless of Terry Davis' strangeness, there's no doubt a certain level of brilliance to it. Honestly, I think that's kind of why TempleOS has been so compelling to people. It's insane, but also beyond the skills of 99.99% of the population.

So much of the so-bad-its-good stuff required effort, and TempleOS is no exception.

chmod600• 3 years ago

For someone so delusional, it's interesting that he was effective enough to do anything. How far detached from reality can you be and still create something that objectively works?

Could someone delusional also create a rocket ship? Or is there something special about programming that makes it compatible with delusional thinking?

EgregiousCube• 3 years ago

Sort of related, I was browsing the github of the author of the Hyprland wayland compositor to see what else he's built. Smiled at https://github.com/vaxerski/Holy6800 - I love this kind of useless but cool project.

diath• 3 years ago

Honestly, if it weren't the product of religious delusions common with schizophrenia, I'd say TempleOS and HolyC would be more than enough of a resume to get hired into many programming jobs.

He actually was employed as a programmer before the whole schizophrenia/TempleOS arc.

DonHopkins3• 3 years ago

Honestly, if it weren't the product of religious delusions common with schizophrenia

Are you forgetting or whitewashing his racist delusions, or are you saying that religious delusions imply racist delusions?

Going around delusionally telling everyone that Jesus loves them isn't the same thing as shouting the n-word at everyone.

DANmode9• 3 years ago

It's interesting, because in reviewing TempleOS, and his way of explaining what he had done, and how he spoke about it, I always got the vibe that the religious references were him "doing his duty" (what he was compelled to) while just being a hacker.

Not that the whole OS was an offering to God.

Did I miss that?

29athrowaway5• 3 years ago

A perfect theme to drive into the glow as directed by the space alien talking through your car radio or the NIST random number generator.

But I am disappointed at the blasphemous resolution. We can only do 640x480, 16 colors (4-bit depth).

NOTE: corrected

pengaru4• 3 years ago

We can only do 640x480, 16-bit color depth.

Heresy! 16-color (4-bit)

peyton• 3 years ago

Ring 0 only. Ring 3 is like wearing three condoms. God wants us to be close to the hardware.

s5300• 3 years ago

Sigh.

Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end.

Whether that’s true, no clue. But I like to think he deserved better.

pengaru4• 3 years ago

Reminder that Terry being hellbanned on this website was cited by those who tracked him down in person towards the end as very not good for his mental state/part of reason for his extreme decline towards the end.

Yikes. That's some serious deflection from the 4chan crowd, where the trolls came from who made it their mission to completely destroy this vulnerable person's life via the internet.

OfSanguineFire3• 3 years ago

But did Terry fell that 4chan were his own people? He probably felt that the HN crowd was, and therefore being ostracized from them could have hit just as hard as the 4chan trolling.

kstrauser3• 3 years ago

That's sad and I feel for anyone whose mental illness drives wedges between them and society. I can't imagine many things more horrifying than to be a sentient mind trapped in a brain determined to play tricks on it.

That said, you can't just let someone with those issues spew awfulness even if it's caused by a medical condition. That's a rough situation for the person being banned but I'm not sure what the less bad alternative would be.

williamcotton• 3 years ago

Sure you can, you just recognize that the person saying it is a very different kind of person.

Who was actually offended by Terry’s schizophrenic ramblings? Is the n word really that disturbing when used by someone without a firm grasp on reality and in the midst of a word salad? Is it racist or just nonsense?

“Rule are rules”… well, people in wheelchairs get a different set of rules and I’m perfectly fine sacrificing some of my own personal comfort to make accommodations.

Why isn’t this the same with mental illness?

Paul-Craft5• 3 years ago

Absolutely agree 100%.

One other terrible thing about mental illness like that (as if there needed to be another) is that it's really, really hard for people with mental illness to navigate the healthcare system to get proper treatment. Even I've experienced this, with ADHD. I joke that I take medication to remember to take my medication, and that's sometimes kinda true. I can only imagine what it would be like with delusions of persecution and voices in my head telling me to do stuff.

Another thing is that in the US, it's incredibly hard to get someone like Terry on medication if they don't want to be, even if it's in their own best interests. Most of the time, I'm generally in favor of this stance, as I don't think that anyone else, particularly the government, should be able to force medicate people against their wills. (NB: I'm not talking about vaccines here.)

The unfortunate result of these things is that people with really severe mental issues can easily end up homeless, or, at the very least, on disability and unable to work, and there's nothing anybody else can do about it.

Schizophrenia in particular is a real bastard of a disease, as you noted. Apparently, symptoms only go away in 70% of people who get treatment, and 15% of people with schizophrenia end up institutionalized.[0] The symptoms apparently also trend less severe over time, but there can be sudden and severe regressions.

Terry got dealt a bad hand, it's true. But, I don't think it's fair to say that getting banned from a website led to his death. If that was all it took, then just about anything could have caused him to go over the edge.

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[0] https://www.webmd.com/schizophrenia/schizophrenia-outlook#1

caeril• 3 years ago

The "less-bad" alternative would be to remember what you were told when you were five years old:

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me"

Puritanical grown adults on the post-2008 Internet acting like scared children afraid of tokens of text are the root of the problem.

akerl_• 3 years ago

It's not viable for a community that wants to maintain quality discourse to allow continued posting by somebody who reliably mixes in slurs and bigotry.

I feel bad for Terry, because by all indications those posts were driven by mental health issues rather than intentional bigotry, but the effect of allowing them in the community is the same.

arp242• 3 years ago

And while you or I might be willing to put up with that as we're aware of the person and circumstances, there are many more people who don't know who he is and his circumstances and merely see the profanity-laden ramblings, and will simply leave. Keeping Terry on HN was untenable.

29athrowaway5• 3 years ago

The turning point was when he was kicked out of his house. That's when he became homeless and started living in a van.

That affected him in many ways, and it was noticeable. Before, he was always shaved and clean. After becoming homeless that changed.

Someone sent him a drum set and the noise annoyed his parents. He also annoyed them in other ways. Trolls were entertained by stressing the relationship between Terry and his family.

It was all the work of glowposting trolls. A reminder that we should not hesitate to drive into the glow.

red-iron-pine3• 3 years ago

A reminder that we should not hesitate to drive into the glow

you're advocating joining the CIA?

philwelch• 3 years ago

I don’t have a good answer for the question of hellbanning Terry. Spamming every HN thread with irrelevant nonsense and long stretches of randomly generated text is naturally going to get anyone hellbanned. Would it have been merciful to try and make an exception for Terry personally? I don’t know.

The thing is, it never stopped him from posting, nor did it stop those of us with “showdead” enabled from seeing his comments. For me at least, Terry was a fixture of the old HN. Every story on the front page would have that one dead, greyed out comment at the bottom that didn’t make very much sense to anyone but him. I miss seeing those comments.

jszymborski• 3 years ago

4chan killed Terry Davis. It was a concerted effort over many years to get him run out of his home and society.

HN banning him was not the cause of this, it was a symptom.

I think of Terry often, and he most certainly deserved better.

subsistence234• 3 years ago

4chan killed Terry Davis.

weird. they seem to like him

nulld3v• 3 years ago

Very cool! I wonder if someone could package this as a pacman/AUR package.

m463• 3 years ago

interesting background. He suffered from mental illness bipolar + schizophrenia. Being persecuted / talking to god are common afflictions of this illness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis

postalrat• 3 years ago

Blasphemy!

Temple OS Theme for Arch Linux

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