Movies and TV Shows

Eh, as an IT guy, I love seeing computer screens on TV. They're either a good laugh, or they can be quite interesting.

Among the interesting/iconic interfaces:

• The 3D "Unix" system in Jurassic Park
• The Matrix
• Minority Report

I also love seeing vintage/fake-vintage interfaces in movies, such as SolarOS (a take on Solaris) in Tron: Legacy

and all the hilarious ones such as the infamous "I'll create a GUI in Visual Basic to track the IP address" scene in CSI.

Also, here's a bonus link for you retro fans: https://www.windows93.net/

The Other Place had a whole sub*cough* dedicated to this, called "itsaunixsystem", for the scene in Jurassic Park mentioned in other post (the software used was real, it just was really slow and impractical).

I wouldn't mind having something like that in Lemmy.

The only thing that bugs me when they use modern phones on screen is when you can tell they aren't on a call. As an example, my phone screen turns off when I put it near my face if I'm on a call. In a lot of tv shows you can see the phone screen doesn't turn off since they aren't in an actual call and that takes me out of the fiction post haste.

I don't have problem with it when it is done right.

I liked cameo from Czech TV presenter in Spiderman - it was small detail but everything was done right, it looked exactly like Czech news.

But when it is some cheap screen recording playing on loop I am torn from the story immediately.

C'mon it is not that hard to customise some Linux DE to satisfy some unixporn lovers.

It irritates me when a computer or phone makes some kind of noise while it’s loading something.

As long as they aren't parodies I don't really care. I find this is more common when Apple products are used.

There's a few UnixPorn communities out there ( !unixporn@lemmy.ml ) and I think they really demonstrate how varied UIs can be.

If you are using a tiling window manager like i3 you might not have a cursor for example.