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good lord.

so i go to install some kind of disk formatting /checking utility on the raspberry pi- so i go to “add remove software” , do a search for “disk utility”

wait a bit

get a list of really cryptic package names, none of which seem to have the words “disk” or “utility” in their names or descriptions, let alone their relevance. I try a bunch of variations with no luck.

so i do a search on the web. it says i need gnome-disk-utility

so i dearch for “disk-utility” (notice the difference?)” in add/remove software and it correctly pops up as the only result.

There’s no add or install button. I guess that the correct procedure here is to check the checkbox next to it and click “apply”. a pop up explains that it’s installing now. That finishes. I go to look for it in the start menu. It’s nowhere to be found.

I try to type “gnome-disk-utility” in the terminal- nothing happens. there’s no such command.

I search through the launch menu again and find a “Main Menu Editor” utility. I … guess that will let me edit the start/launch menu?

i navigate to the accessories menu. I click “new item”. I am presented with a small form

Name: ____
Command: ___ [Browse]
Comment: _____
[ ] Launch in Terminal?
[Cancel] [ Ok ]

so i type Disk Utility for name
gnome-disk-utility for command
“format disks” for comment…

the Ok button is greyed out.

I click browse expecting a list of installed applications and .. it’s just an ordinary file browser that starts out on “Recent” by default. There Is Nothing resembling a disk utility in Recent.

i browse around pointlessly in the file browser having no idea where the applications are getting installed.

I hit cancel. I go back to the Add/Remove software application to verify that it installed. I browse around for clues in it’s description

I right click on it to see if there’s clues in the context menu:

Remove Package
Visit Project Website
Required Packages
Dependant Packages

since i have nothing left to lose i visit the website

i see a page titled

Apps/Disks
View, modify and configure disks and media
[scrolling down]
[scrolling back up]

tiny tiny grey text next to the title reads

“gnome-disks.pi”

i go back to the menu editor and try “gnome-disks” for a laugh

the Ok button enables

—- Okay who the fuck designed this?

if that thing can tell me whether I guessed right why can’t it give me a fucking menu?

Who thought any of this was good enough?

who can I strangle?

From last year, my demo of how you can use interference patterns to produce different colours.

Imaging this printed at like, printing dot scale with a transparency of black dots overlayed on a CMY backing.

#colourTheory #colors #colours

Anyone else remember that time Nintendo built an experimental operating system with a tiny core of c++, and the rest of the squeek inspired OS and UI written in Javascript?

and then google bought it and abandoned it?

update:

apparently not fully abandoned after all

https://www.esrille.com/unbrick/

update2: okay, i envy this level of web design