Inactive Terry A. Davis / Terrence Andrew Davis - Creator of TempleOS (formerly LoseThos/sparrowOS)

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Fellow schizo Charls Carrol wore TempleOS merch on his latest video with CEO Eric Hayden and Letty from fishtank.
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RIP Terry Davis. You are missed. Bless you.

Also, it boggles my mind that Terry spent his life making TempleOS as his monument to God, probably thinking the whole time that that's how he will be remembered, and for that he shall, but by far and away the biggest legacy of Terry is the phrase "glow in the dark" referring to feds. Now, I was around when Terry was alive, I don't remember that being a phrase at all before him. I don't think anyone even said it in that way before him. I might be wrong. But whenever someone calls a fed "a glowie", Terry smiles from heaven on high.

Just goes to show you the weird ways life can work itself out.
 
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I learned of this guy through his "elephants" video yesterday, I've since gone down the rabbit hole and damn.. He was a brilliant soul in spite of his mental illness. To spend 10 years building an entire operating system from scratch, and all for the glory of God, he might be the most devout Christian in recent times. I've felt a strange sense of melancholy all day long, maybe this one hurts extra since beneath the schizophrenia he really seemed to care about spreading God's word and making people happy. Finding this thread to see how many people here truly cared about this man (extremely rare for a lolcow) and still make a point of remembering him 5 years after the fact, it's very touching.
 
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TempleOS version intro's over time

(Source: various from 2010 - 2014)






Part of Terry explaining how templeOS works, from the first stream with working audio (or not just hymns)

(Source: 2010-10-20T07_00_00+00_00 - LoseThos Operating System Demo V6.15 Part 1 (WAr-xYtBFbY))






Demo of his mesh editor and his first person shooter

(Source: 2012-02-28T15_55_41+00_00 - Mesh.wmv)




"when you're doing something original, it's not always fun."

(Source: 2012-12-07T08_02_00+00_00 - TempleOS Games - X-Caliber, RawHide, Wenceslas (t2ta1rKko1k))






"Let's do rocket science"

(Source: 2012-12-05T08_04_00+00_00 - TempleOS Tour Part 1 (vpujlg-XhEs))





percival is one of the main things that makes it difficult going through the earlier streams

(Source: 2012-09-12T07_00_00+00_00 - LoseThos Demo 8.05a (I4Kt3pCG9j0))





(Source: 2010-10-20T07_00_00+00_00 - LoseThos Operating System Demo V6.15 Part 1 (WAr-xYtBFbY))


i'm primarily trying to keep the file sizes small, i know the resoultion of these videos is weird but it was either leave this batch as is or spend another 4 hours rendering videos. future ones hopefully wont be as autistic

most of the videos up until this point is Terry showing off the operating system. he gets pretty technical and if you're actually interested in TempleOS these videos are great to watch and can get downright ASMR until percival

anyways i know it's a little thin but i will be chipping away at this over time hopefully
 
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In the spirit of making short, fun little clips of Terry, i made 2 and a half hour compilation:


it doesn't have a fucking obnoxious descending shephard's tone every 5 minutes so i can actually use it for ASMR!

these are all from 2010-2012. he is heavily focused on showing off technical stuff about TempleOS. he makes himself laugh a few times though and its great but he rarely gets sidetracked. there's not a lot of easily clippable content here but it's so comfy. and sad sometimes.

watching through the archive it seems that from 2013 onwards is where his mental health starts to get worse. 2014 is where he starts making a lot of (albeit shorter) videos for Larry Page (2013 has 21 videos for the whole year, 2014 has 106 just with larry page in the filename) but he also begins musing on other topics, eg:


unfortunately percival starts talking more and its like nails on a chalkboard to me and heavily limited when i could watch through the archive. the compilation would be an hour longer but editing around the bird became too time consuming and if I don't finish this up now I never will also i'm not going to be able to work on this for the forseeable future due to real life but i will eventually get back to it
 
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I recently read “The Best Minds” by Jonathan Rosen, which is a book by the author about his childhood best friend Michael Lautner who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia .

Lautner was an incredibly intelligent guy who started exhibiting symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia in his early 20’s, after having graduated summa cum laude in three years from Yale.

After five years of psychotic breaks and hospitalizations Lautner returns to Yale to attend Law school. With medication, doctor supervision and the support of a lot of people he graduates. His story was going to be turned into a feel good movie directed by Ron Howard and staring Brad Pitt called “The Laws of Madness”. It was until Lautner murdered his pregnant fiancé (or, as he said, a wind-up doll imitating her) in 1998 and suddenly turned the story into a big downer.

(Howard still wanted to direct a movie focused on an inspiring schizophrenic so ended up directing A Beautiful Mind three years later)

The book is an interesting insight on how society has failed people suffering from schizophrenia via good intentions. Tackling society wanting to believe that a smart, logical person can “think” their way out of severe mental illness, by conflating schizophrenia with anxiety, depression and other conditions also labeled “mental illness” and by romanticizing schizophrenia/madness while demonizing forced medications and institutionalization to treat people with florid delusions. Lautner wrote op-eds and articles railing against forced hospitalizations and medication - leaving out the irony that the only reason he survived and graduated law school was thanks the hospitalizations and medication regimen. (He had also been off his meds for months when he murdered his fiancé)

Lautner was just a six years older than Terry. It’s good reading for anyone interested in the subject of schizophrenia or curious as to why more couldn’t be done to save Terry from himself and his delusions.

I hope someone can write a great book about Terry one day.
 
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On Terry A. Davis​

As someone formally diagnosed with schizophrenia who happens to be a programmer, I often get questions such as, “What do you think of Terry A. Davis and his OS, TempleOS?“ While people who ask me this question often mean well, it is often a catalyst for some complicated thoughts on mental illness and product development.

I want to be delicate while also being realistic about Terry. He was, indeed, a brilliant programmer. Where I disagree with him is in his insistence that there was a grand conspiracy to hold back his operating system, perhaps orchestrated by the CIA. Anyone who used his operating system could tell that it was, at the very least, unpolished. While it did have some recreational value, it did not provide a product that people could use that would enrich their lives.
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