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Anything written before 2023 will have less #enshittification. However, nothing…
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@Lydie although hardware and software then was bloody expensive compared to tod…
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@Lydie Good times, good times.
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@Lydie and then there was that infrared keyboard nonsense. Whew.
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@WillyECoyote69 @Lydie yeah but the Turbo button was really more of a “slow d…
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@ozeng Whohaha yeah ! @Lydie
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@Lydie Rose-tinted glasses allow you to forget the joys of memory management, d…
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@Lydie i'm not sure the pcjr is ultimately the best example of things not b…
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@ltning Me thinking "Retry" will finally work, just this once, and hi…
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@Lydie the simplicity was also fun. Word processors that were actually usable i…
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@Lydie i love the pcjr for its quirks. you can practically feel engineers cryi…
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@Lydie Thinking like that might make me feel much too good about myself. But co…
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@Lydie Years later, while browsing Mastodon, I very sadly realise how much I mi…
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@Lydie We could have had a better Internet if there was some standard UI indica…
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@Lydie Boy oh boy was early Viseo great!You just bought it and got your own key…
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@Lydie Alhough I wholeheartedly support this statement. The 80s was also the de…
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@Lydie I love that you picture an example of the 1980s computing equivalent of …
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@Lydie Interesting - I think back to what was available via local BBSs in the e…
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@Lydie Yeah. Computers back then also crashed multiple times a day. Particularl…
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@Lydie Best advice. As someone who writes on an offline device built by me... I…
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@Lydie Hear hear! Preach it!
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@Lydie meanwhile in 2027 I’ll be watching an ad before I can use my toaster a…
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@Lydie It can still be that way. Find a Linux distro that you're happy with…
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@Lydie We really did have everything, didn't wehttps://youtu.be/Cd0Nu3d3b4g…
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@Lydie We lived in the country; so our folks went to the city and bought one as…
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@Lydie It's entirely possible to do this today, on any operating system. Pe…
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@jacobdewitz And...
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@jeffnik I have some of those 😆
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@petrillic Buy a wireless keyboard in the 80s! Even if it only kind of worked …
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@Lydie I still remember using a shareware Basic compiler for a project ;-). …
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@Lydie I remember actually using all function keys F1 - F12 in software... issu…
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@Lydie also components where not stressed that much. I mean, processors didn&#3…
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@Lydie I remember having a Pentium II 350MHz Compaq Deskpro with Slot-1 socket …
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@Lydie This one exactly
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@Lydie I installed my very first Debian 3.1 Sarge in that one.
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@santiago I never saw one like that. The ones we had at school were more like …
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@Lydie ...and no weird wrong version python packages or other missing dependenc…
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@Lydie Yeah the 80s rocked.Back then memory was expensive and in short supply.U…
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@Lydie Agreed, but today's coders and tech bros think that having a 1GB exe…
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@Lydie Indeed, the days of efficient coding are long gone. It's been like t…
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@Lydie Someone was doing that for Windows XP I believe... In a virtual machine …
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@Lydie Win7 x64 is pretty all right. It's out of support but it works well …
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@Lydie It's a "good old days" type myth. Our memory fools us and …
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@tasket @Lydie An industrial vacuumer cleaner’s big nozzle as an icon might b…
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@Lydie I feel the 90s were the better realisation of that than the 80s -- CPU s…
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@lacertacz Perhaps for some. But I loved this stuff as much back then when I …
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@drwho Sure why not 😆
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