Sometimes, tooltips appear at the wrong position. Let's say, you hover
  over a URL in your  browser  and  then  the  content  of  the  "title"
  attribute shows up. Those kinds of things.

  I  only  see  this  in  browsers,  but  as  I  don't use that many GUI
  applications, others might be affected. I just don't know.

  All the time, I thought this was the fault  of  my  window  manager[1]
  because I wrote it myself, so there might be bugs.

  But  a  few  days ago, I saw a Mac user with exactly the same problem.
  That's nice. Kind of.


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  Some random guy on the internet explained why I feel so old.  I  can't
  quote him/her, but it basically goes like this.

  I  was  a kid when phones with rotary dials were still a normal thing.
  Let's say I was five or six years old. I can clearly remember  phoning
  people  with that thing. Every other kid I knew had a phone like this.
  It was normal.

  When I first got in touch with computers, it was normal that they  ran
  at  8  MHz  or  faster  machines had 33 MHz. They ran DOS and you only
  started Windows 3.0 sometimes. Or  maybe  only  DOS  Shell.  When  you
  entered  "dir", line after line appeared on the screen. Yes, you could
  actually see that. Oh and the monitor was monochrome,  of  course.  No
  color. Just an amber screen.

  We  didn't  have access to the internet. There were only mailboxes (or
  "BBS systems" as they are called in  non-germany,  I  guess).  Dial-up
  stuff.  You had to use a special terminal program which we ran in DOS.
  Later on, there were terminal programs for OS/2. Dialing into  one  of
  these  boxes  was  very, very expensive and we could only do it, like,
  once per week, for 20 minutes tops.

  I read about computers only in printed magazines or books.

  Okay, fine.

  About five years later, I had a computer with 133 MHz. You  know  what
  that  thing could do? It could play videos. Little movies. Holy mother
  of shit. This was absolutely astonishing.

  We got access to the internet.

  A few years later, my computer had 500 MHz. We got flat rate access to
  the  internet.  A  few  years after that, my computer had 1.3 GHz. Add
  another few years and I got a dual core machine. Today, my machine has
  four  cores  (plus  hyperthreading)  and  32 GB of RAM. I don't buy PC
  magazines anymore and I rarely buy books about computers.

  All of this happened over the course of ten or fifteen years. It was a
  massive revolution. It happened *so* fast -- but to me, it didn't feel
  fast. Why? Because I was very young, a kid, a  teenager.  When  you're
  young,  the  perception  of time is different. One month as a kid felt
  like a year feels to me today.

  Both  these  things  --  me  being  young  and   technology   changing
  dramatically  --  created the illusion that I'm old. I'm not that old,
  I'm just over 30. But it feels like I have lived through  a  lot  more
  time  because  technology changed so quickly and so profoundly. I feel
  like a 60 year old professor  with  grey  hair  when  I  talk  to  our
  students about my first computing experiences. Funny thing is, they're
  18-20 years old.  Not that much of  a  difference.  They  only  missed
  those crucial years with the massive technology boom.

  So there's that.

  On  top  of  that, I feel that in the last five or ten years, not much
  has happened. Our computers have been "fast enough" for a  long  time.
  Computer  *usage*  hasn't  changed  that  much. You have a GUI ... and
  that's it. There are no such  things  as  holograms  or  holodecks  or
  whatever.  Yes,  computers  are  still  getting faster. But it's not a
  fundamental change like the one  I  described  above.  The  difference
  between  Windows  95  and  macOS Sierra is relatively small -- but the
  difference between a simple DOS command line and a Windows 95 GUI that
  can play videos is enormous.

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  1. https://github.com/vain/katriawm