Terry Davis has died

I don't have a dog in this fight, but some context might be useful to those who didn't instantly recognize this as I did: This is a from-scratch operating system by LoseThOS, an absolutely brilliant but (allegedly) schizophrenic programmer who posts on HN but has been hellbanned countless times for the unintelligle religious rants and insults he posts. This version looks like a rebranding of LoseThOS, the previous iteration of the operating system. It's worth Googling if you'd like more…

I personally interviewed Terry and delivered a care package for him in '18. I am Kenneth from the BBC interview: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b4r3 Things were pretty much on a downward spiral after 4chan funded his drum set: Terry got kicked out, and then Terry's van got impounded along with $1000 of a lot of electronics. Once he was homeless living in CA, people thought (and rightfully so) that he would die on the streets. It's such a shame what happened, honestly. 15+…

Skimming the source code files I really wanted to play his game: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Apps/Pilgrims/Pilgrims.html#l1 Fortunately he made a bunch of videos showing himself playing the games, with a voiceover containing his own quirky humour: http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Games.html Wow. NSFW: I noticed some bigoted comments on the blog.

My deepest condolences. TempleOS was a thing of beauty, which I would totally see used x86-64 VMs instead of 'thicker' operating systems.