#computing: legacy

[magnuficentwo]

Baltazar fixes their hair and does the 👈👈 hands to themself most of the time. When they don't, they speedwalk away like they just saw the devil (they did, its them).

Luis doesn't care most often. Usually he doesn't even perceive himself. Bros mirror is empty in his mind.

William will take his time to groom himself and make sure he's still thotting it up as the worlds sluttiest computer scientist, making sure his clothes are tidy and matching.

Althea just. Kinda stares. A lot. And then smiles before going away again.

Eris is the kind of person to make sure her lipstick and eyeshadow are still on peak with every mirror she finds. Hell, it can just be a glassy surface, and she'll still check herself out. Loves looking good and is unapologetic for it.

Now you'd think Lilith wouldn't really care as much for her appearance given she's the opposite of Eris, but you'd be wrong. She needs to be the most handsomest butchiest butch in the room at all times or she will die. Many such cases

Maria has not looked in a mirror in 4 years since she transitioned without exclaiming "DAMN whos that beautiful babe". And she is right so she won't stop either <3

How does your character act/react when encountering a mirror?

[river-taxbird]

Have you got an old Mac that is no longer supported by Apple? It's time to give it a new life.

How to install the latest MacOS on Mac hardware that is no longer officially supported using OpenCore Legacy Patcher.

I recently discovered this and it has been a game changer. Recently my partner needed a Mac for her music course, so we bought a 2012 Macbook Pro as it was cheap and on paper still had decent hardware for working with music. We were then disappointed to find out that it is no longer supported by Apple, and therefore can't run the latest version of Logic, which she needed to inter-op with the school comptuers. Just as we thought we had bought a less than useful computer, I found this video about OpenCore Legacy Patcher from Youtuber Action Retro.

It's a community made piece of software that allows you to install the latest version of MacOS on any Intel Mac, from the late 2000s onwards. All you need to do is download the application on a mac, it will then allow you to make a bootable USB drive for any version of MacOS you want, and you just need to choose the specific mac you are targeting from a list, and it "blesses" the bootable drive, allowing you to install it on your unsupported mac using the normal install process.

I tried it and it it worked perfectly on the 2012 Macbook Pro, and the latest version of MacOS Sonoma is running perfectly well on the 12 year old hardware. It also allowed us to install the latest version of Logic, so it's working great.

Props to the team for making this and allowing hardware that would otherwise be e-waste to continue to be usable with the modern internet and software. If you end up using it, please consider donating to the team as apparently they had to jump through some serious technical hoops to get this working. Here is the link again if you need it: https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/

[peonypyxels]

maggie & rei🌟

[numtune]

Starting off a bit rough Beginning | Next

[tumfullofblue]

Hot Take but Tron Universe (and in summary, the Grid) is kinky af. What. What do you mean we all have to wear skin tight suits, no matter our age or physical form? What do you mean everything is neon and dark and sexy? What do you mean the whole place is run by the younger version of a man who looks like a Greek God and has the pride that could make the sin of the same name blush?

This needs to be studied or at least written fanfiction about and by God, I will do my part.

[duusheen]

A little help - 2/2

[jlbsocialmedia]

[what-bot]

I rewatched Tron Legacy and for some reason I remembered the portal as opening and closing on its own once a cycle, but apparently that’s not what happens?

The movie implies that it opens when a User comes in, closes after 8 ‘hours’, then NEVER opens again? It just…closes forever until he returns from outside?

And Kevin’s plan in that event seems to have been to page Alan and be like “yeah so I borrowed your wife’s portal into the digital world and made my own universe, and I got too into building a new city with the program homies so I was late getting out and the portal like closed on me and now I’m trapped in my computer forever unless someone logs in and releases me. Can you come pick me up”

Yeah that sounds like him

Tron in the flashback telling him “I don’t like when you cut it this close” gave me secondhand stress after realising it

[mousysims]

i'm physically incapable of introducing a spouse i haven't already played for at least 1000 hours so, here are my favorite screens from atti's pre-fukuda save. he lives with his bff athena and her bf thomas in a san myshuno apartment thomas inherited from his wealthy aunt.

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[timmurleyart]

The game has changed. 🤖🤖🟪⬛️🟧🟥🎵

[fights4users]

So I’ve been thinking about it and how Legacy Tron could be a copy, but I didn’t remember if Alan was working on Tron for eventual commercial use or just the problems Encoms systems were having (due to the MCP)

However that makes it even funnier for Flynn to just go up to him one day

Can I have a copy of your Tron program… no reason🧍‍♂️

[fallstaticexit]

Chapter Seven Adie (Lunvik Lake) - Previous // Next // Beginning // Werewolf Lore

It's a particularly warm day in Moonwood Mill, so the pack spends the afternoon before the lone wolf’s pack initiation cooling off in Lake Lunvik. 🌕

Transcript Below

Jacob: Baby, are you ok? You‘ve been so out of it since last night.

Lou: Mir‘s worried the magic wolf gonna kick his ass in front of everyone.

Amir: Girl, please! I am not worried about his ass.

Lou: Then he‘s being all pissy because his wittle baby brudder is making puppy dog eyes at him.

Jacob: See, I told him that Rhys is growing up on him. I think he‘s imprinting.

Amir: Shut your ass up!

Lou: Bahaha-OWW!

Rhys: [with no rizz] Um. Hi. I‘m Rhys. Rhys Briar...and um. I like your eyes. They‘re so...pretty. Um. And I like your scent too. It‘s...really nice.

Lou: UNCLE! UNCLE!

Jacob: Baby, we get it. You‘re feeling territorial right now. Nothing is more threatening than a new wolf you don‘t know trying to join your pack and under the same rank as you.

Amir: Ugh! Please drop it! I swear I don‘t care, ok?

Lou: Oh yeahhh? Where‘s Rhys right now?

Rhys: [softly] Can you hear me? What‘s your name?

Amir: Rhys!! - [between closed teeth] Getchoassoverhere!

Rhys: [sighs] I gotta go....but, um- Good luck tonight... Jackson.

[buttfishfan]

Dbh fans who glaze machine connor but dont like Amanda are soooo weird to me.

Machine connor and amanda's ai are both just extensions of cyberlife policy that androids will complete whatever task they're given, no matter the cost.

[biffybobs]

The other two apartments still needed renting out and now that Lucy was a Woman of Many Saves she had some tips to share with Sunday. After a quick fourth-wall-breaking trip to the Watcher's library some familiar faces were back!

Almond (gen 2) was up to his usual tricks, pranking Bertie (founder) with the hand buzzer. Nadia (gen 3) is just as adorable as ever. Iris (gen 4) wondered if there were any good rock climbing facilities in Tomarang. And finally Marigold (gen 5) was equal parts puzzled and annoyed by the crystal tree that Sunday accidentally left behind on the front patio.

[bookie-bookdust]

I am begging someone to write a Mamma Mia AU with MC's daughter and Sebastian, Ominis, and Garreth being the possible father please.

I would write it, but I already have 8 million projects I take ten years each to work on and I'm tired LOL

[what-bot]

Tron: Program families and spawning

Various loosely-supported headcanons that come from thinking too much about Uprising and digging on Wikipedia while knowing nothing about computers.

This is general guidelines only and can differ based on the system, do what you want.

This became long so the main deal is: for programs, who they're working under, or their 'mentor', tends to fill what most humans would call a parental role (but it’s not an exact 1 to 1 equivalent, having elements of both mentoring and parenting). Also, programs can spawn other programs, either via sort-of cloning themselves by forking, in which case usually the child will work in a related function to the parent. HOWEVER they can then be adopted by another program and work under their function, in which case that program is now their parent (this also happens if the previous parent dies). Who spawned them and who they work under often overlap but not always. There are also compilers whose job it is to spawn new programs but aren't involved in raising them, and these new programs go out and form other bonds.

Programs are defined by their function, so training a program in how to perform their function is akin to raising them. The parent thing doesn't preclude others having a role in giving general life advice though and different setups can arise, such as if one program is the boss of several others, more experienced subordinates can fill the 'parent' role for newer programs in sort of descending tiers. Or in a group of programs who don't have a shared function, the older ones will generally look out for the younger ones.

To avoid confusion (for the programs), the program who is mentoring/overseeing them is called their parent, and the program who spawned them is called their progenitor, IF they are different

How it works (the bits and the bytes)

Programs can fork into new programs, which is asexual reproduction. It can be User-initiated, or as a result of commands in the system environment (e.g. under x conditions programs will spawn a new child). As for how this looks, the parent might grow bigger and get some new circuits for a bit, then one day they turn into a ball of light and undergo mitosis. It's not painful at all, though it does take energy and the parent will be a bit laggy while the new program is compiling.

The new program defaults to a clone of the original but can be customised and made distinct, although without a User designing instructions to change the child they can't differ much from their parent.

If the child does stay a clone then, well, they're clones, multiple bodies working together to execute the same function in what may or may not be an actual hive mind.

The child program can either remain as a subordinate of their parent or be adopted by another program. Cue Tron and Able having a custody battle because Tron is training Beck in a different function to his original one, and by extension taking over the parental role from Able. It doesn't help that programs changing function on their own so drastically is practically unheard of, so animosity over a beta changing parents isn't a common thing either

The new program spawns looking fully like a young adult and able to do some basic stuff. They visually 'age' through a combination of time, experience and sometimes stress. A program is seen as a full adult when they become competent enough to hypothetically operate on their own, even if they are still someone else's subordinate.

Compilers are an exception, spawning new programs very different from themselves according to outside instructions and doing this as their main function. Compilers are big, and tend to look non-humanoid. They can resemble living buildings, parts of the landscape or large robots. They're not seen as parents/mentors in the same way as they just spawn the program and aren't involved in raising them. They do have a lot of respect though and have their own team of monks to take care of them. In some systems, new programs only come from compilers.

ISOs

In Tron Identity, Sierra mentions having a family, but nothing else about them. From what he also mentions about the Automata acting as a community, I imagine they have a very different idea of family which is probably not based on function (if they even adhere to the concept of function), but instead their whole community is like one big extended family. I don't know enough about other ISOs to have a take on them but I imagine their setups are similarly varied based on subculture.

We've seen child ISOs in Legacy and in Identity (Cass is stated to be 'just a kid'). Headcanon that ISOs spawn as children and grow up into adults in a similar fashion to humans, not knowing how to do things right away but learning very fast. Gaining new experiences makes them grow faster.

ISOs normally come from the Sea, but can divide on reaching critical mass. In this case they turn into two half-size clones, each with part of the memories and code of the original, that then grow up into distinct adults, and so on. These pairs consider themselves as something like siblings, and call them their ‘other version’ or their ‘split’

There are some that have invented a type of sexual reproduction where two (or more) adults combine and remix into several distinct children. This is fairly new though, and there’s debate over whether it counts as dying

Specific Headcanons:

I don't actually have too many concrete ones yet. Definitely think that Tron spawned Anon which will probably be a whole other post once I get around to Evolution. Leaning towards the garage crew being adopted, no-one who is currently there having been spawned by Able except maybe Zed. And a headcanon that formed literally just now that Quorra and Uprising Ada are splits to each other.

Bonus: spotted this while in a Wikipedia rabbit hole