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Post #AvT5aw7NpD9SX8ZLzU by [email protected] |
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Anything written before 2023 will have less #enshittification. However, nothing… |
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Post #AvT67O6DKLiAa9UpVI by [email protected] |
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@Lydie although hardware and software then was bloody expensive compared to tod… |
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Post #AvTEHUW17sbt0itV56 by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Good times, good times. |
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Post #AvTFm1b0nWQkFYLzrU by [email protected] |
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@Lydie and then there was that infrared keyboard nonsense. Whew. |
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Post #AvTFu3jkinKDCsH0cq by [email protected] |
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@WillyECoyote69 @Lydie yeah but the Turbo button was really more of a “slow d… |
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Post #AvTG2c3F1dpZwnT3aK by [email protected] |
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@ozeng Whohaha yeah ! @Lydie |
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Post #AvTHUewtwf52zsRKJk by ltning |
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@Lydie Rose-tinted glasses allow you to forget the joys of memory management, d… |
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Post #AvTHjjZ93uddexW3bE by [email protected] |
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@Lydie i'm not sure the pcjr is ultimately the best example of things not b… |
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Post #AvTHm6LlK2HIu1NweG by [email protected] |
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@ltning Me thinking "Retry" will finally work, just this once, and hi… |
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Post #AvTHmJzabGrPDJ7R20 by [email protected] |
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@Lydie the simplicity was also fun. Word processors that were actually usable i… |
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Post #AvTIB2JlS1HndWLBAm by [email protected] |
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@Lydie i love the pcjr for its quirks. you can practically feel engineers cryi… |
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Post #AvTIBTtUvGudAAGb7Q by ltning |
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@Lydie Thinking like that might make me feel much too good about myself. But co… |
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Post #AvTIFE5vbghpJtrnhg by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Years later, while browsing Mastodon, I very sadly realise how much I mi… |
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Post #AvTLHTTBiH11RlVfnc by [email protected] |
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@Lydie We could have had a better Internet if there was some standard UI indica… |
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Post #AvTLceUfvBMnibItuK by [email protected] |
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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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Post #AvTN0w58HToNAeV2rQ by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Alhough I wholeheartedly support this statement. The 80s was also the de… |
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Post #AvTTuQFqOsaoOzLqEa by [email protected] |
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@Lydie I love that you picture an example of the 1980s computing equivalent of … |
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Post #AvTZIxz19JfNjL0Hia by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Interesting - I think back to what was available via local BBSs in the e… |
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Post #AvTZTsUFvMJzryomGG by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Yeah. Computers back then also crashed multiple times a day. Particularl… |
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Post #AvTZaYFLZmO57d1iV6 by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Best advice. As someone who writes on an offline device built by me... I… |
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Post #AvTaYpZQINuGE4A17Q by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Hear hear! Preach it! |
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Post #AvTacXLC0xBYqXGts0 by [email protected] |
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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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Post #AvTgWTfXLwGtRhHVSq by [email protected] |
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@Lydie It can still be that way. Find a Linux distro that you're happy with… |
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Post #AvTkFQkFN38dGqbxHU by [email protected] |
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@Lydie We really did have everything, didn't wehttps://youtu.be/Cd0Nu3d3b4g… |
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Post #AvTkb7jMkIbofbXk8m by [email protected] |
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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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Post #AvTkgMLVpldbRjsma8 by [email protected] |
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@Lydie It's entirely possible to do this today, on any operating system. Pe… |
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Post #AvUBFNp0w7BMy22jBI by [email protected] |
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@jacobdewitz And... |
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Post #AvUC0pISbRE9n1RGtM by [email protected] |
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@jeffnik I have some of those 😆 |
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Post #AvUCBUoD7INZQuNSeO by [email protected] |
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@petrillic Buy a wireless keyboard in the 80s! Even if it only kind of worked … |
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Post #AvUIX1HCCKQfw3a77Y by [email protected] |
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@Lydie I still remember using a shareware Basic compiler for a project ;-). … |
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Post #AvULARX8hxRKZYxue8 by [email protected] |
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@Lydie I remember actually using all function keys F1 - F12 in software... issu… |
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Post #AvUMT0pyHvRfERByym by [email protected] |
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@Lydie also components where not stressed that much. I mean, processors didn… |
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Post #AvUNAcq8s2FdY04Iee by [email protected] |
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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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Post #AvUxAiSjYyRXKpShW4 by [email protected] |
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@Lydie Agreed, but today's coders and tech bros think that having a 1GB exe… |
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Post #AvUxj1nWBJtX9EXpiK by [email protected] |
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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 😆 |
