An engineering thesis disguised as a coupe: A history of the Honda Prelude
Technology like four-wheel steering and variable valve timing debuted in the Prelude.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/03/an-engineering-thesis-disguised-as-a-coupe-a-history-of-the-honda-prelude/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I'm all for getting more into the other OSes. But there is a lot of talk of this that is reactionary. It is in reaction. We are reacting to events, to occurrences. And so we must keep something in mind.

If you decide you really want to try another OS for such a reason, you've got to know that it will act different. it will not just be the OS you use now with a different name, less functionality, and less ""bad"". It is not time travel. You are not bringing future technology to the past to rapidly catch them up to the present.

This goes for operating systems, distros, softwares, communications tools... from wherever you are to wherever you see off in the distance, hopeful that it is somehow your escape.

If you do not keep your mind open to this, you will be frustrated and disappointed. If your first instinct is to make changes to make it more like what you came from, to make yourself more comfortable, you will become a problem. You will be bringing foreign ideals to this place, without learning why the place is as it is. You need to live here first, to become comfortable with the ways of movement here, before you propose that those who live here should perhaps move different.

You cannot run away and expect to stay the same yourself. Your crops will not grow here. You must eat differently. The weather has changed. You must dress differently. If you do not, you will return to what you have left, cold and starving, once again willing to put up with the grievances that drove you away. Convinced that somehow everyone in the strange land you visited must be cold and starving too, and simply unaware of it.

Colour test, this is adding in a program I found called imagej to turn the wigglypaint gif into an image sequence and microsoft paint to colour. Going back to these kinda very human, frillless roots feels like exactly the right thing to do in the face of 'perfect' AI generated art and video.
#Pixelart #animation #mastoart