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9yo me played with the office 2000 assistants for hours but never got diagnosed

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microsoft was cooking in the late 90s ngl

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@mia omg do you remember the dog that would search for files??
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@lucy i remember the cat that shredded them

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@mia this is why we can't have the year of the linux desktop. there's no cute assisstents shredding your files.
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Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯

@mia actually where would i even put these? does swaybar support sixel??
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@lucy no but mpv supports transparent video and lua scripting

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@lucy perhaps that’s overkill for animated gifs

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@mia you'd probably want the animation to transition between states for like "resting" and "shredding" and "searching" or whatever. so it'd be a 2D animation atlas. or at the very least you'd sync the state transitions.
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@lucy nah the resting animation can be interrupted at any point and everything else is essentially blocking anyway

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@lucy or rather, resting is just static with occasional short random anims

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@mia of course it can. but it can be fancy.
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@mia @lucy wait… there's transparent video formats?
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@lanodan @mia @lucy yes, vp8/vp9 support it and probably others
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@lanodan @novenary @mia oh the bullshit you can do with video formats
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@lanodan @novenary @lucy some very old ones too, like quicktime rle. but also ffv1/ffvhuff, webp, lagarith, etc.

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@lucy @mia @lanodan lmao this one causes mpv to hang when using the hardware decoder (android)
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@novenary @mia @lanodan android moment
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@novenary @lucy @lanodan android graphics and hardware codec drivers are hilariously bad, they regularly crash browsers

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@lanodan @novenary @lucy all it takes to cause artifacts and glitching with most hwdec drivers is video resolutions that aren’t divisible by 16

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