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This place is a lot like what the older Internet from the 80s and 90s was like, just a bunch of disjointed seperate individually run forums and communities run by passionate individuals in a world of digital anarchy where you can find something new every day. One minute you're downloading guitar tabs handwritten by some random metal fan, to reading about some guy named Steve's tribute website to his pet dog the next.

I think that's what draws us in and keeps us here for the older folks.

The public internet has been around about three times longer than what you're calling "old".

Geocities, Angelfire, and dialup modems are the "old" internet.

Struwelliese art style vibes.

Actually it's five sentient Apple IIGSs in a trench coat.

Mac already lets you install apps directly from developers

I just find this language interesting. How a computer now "lets" you install non-walled garden software, as if that hasn't been the default behavior for personal computers for over 40 years since the beginning.

Javascript was a toy created in the mid 90s to make dumb interactive animations and have some sort of dynamic aspect to a web page. The world starting to code entire desktop programs and servers in it was a giant, horrific, societal mistake.

That feature has always been annoying to me, even on phones. I always turn it off because "I" will control whether my screen rotates or not. Maybe sometimes I don't want it to rotate when I turn the phone (like when I'm viewing building plans at work and want to orient the screen with how I'm looking at the building I'm standing in).

Not until they come up with a better solution for emergency landings than "pop out a parachute and fall uncontrolled on traffic and people below". Even normal helis can autorotate to the ground.

Boss? Is that you?

At this point just screw an entire full size box fan to the side of the case as one of the panels.

The entire world around you that you take for granted is built down to a price. Barely anybody makes things to be good, most make things to make money, and when it comes to potentially dangerous things, the risk of harm or loss of life is factored into profit. "How many people can we kill before we are forced to shut this down or spend money to make it better?"

Beware when putting trust in human-created technology. I bet there's more than one engineer in here who wanted to design something the right way, but was then forced to cut some corners by a bean counter. It's everywhere.

Giving an example from my wheelhouse, there are stories of managers going around to engineer's prototype PCBs and snipping off decoupling capacitors one by one until the device barely functions in a stable manner. The manager then declares that that is the appropriate amount of capacitors. Also, if you want a quick heart attack, just take apart any cheap Amazon phone charger and examine it.

40 years from now when our devices just encode encrypted keys into our brains directly to identify us, we'll still be making this joke.

Not a console, but I have a working Tandy 1000 from 1984.

Mobo in great condition and case isn't even yellowed, whoever had it before me must have had it in a dark coat closet for 30 years.

They actually need to focus on hospital communications. It's scary what all you can pick up from paging systems in cleartext with a $20 USB SDR and a laptop. Patient names, rooms numbers, alert codes, everything.

'Murican walls. Made of paper, glue, and chalk.

The Fediverse does not represent the real world. There is big anti-corporate and anti-Elon bias here. Most people just don't give a shit.

"Democratic republic means you have only Democrat and Republican parties"

Same as you don’t learn woodworking when ordering a table from Ikea, or learning medicine when going to a checkup.

Maybe I'm different than most, but I DO wonder how that table is made, and I do try to educate myself on how the medicines I take actually work. There's been times I've wasted almost an entire day binging Wikipedia.

I'm not saying I have in depth knowledge of fields outside my own, but I do make an attempt. Like, I'm not a gearhead at all, and I only care about cars being able to take me to work and back. But I do know how internal combustion works, and I have a general understanding of the components of an engine.