giving the *gestures* everything, it's getting harder and harder to tell myself that my fondness for retro games and hardware is really nostalgia and not because things were actually better
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giving the *gestures* everything, it's getting harder and harder to tell myself that my fondness for retro games and hardware is really nostalgia and not because things were actually better
EDIT: i don't mean only gaming, i mean general computing
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Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!replied to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! last edited by
i dunno. i guess i'd just rather have something thats kinda rough than have something polished but purposefully enshittified
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Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!replied to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! last edited by
maybe i just miss having hope for tech instead of only cynicism
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dataramareplied to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! last edited by
@eniko This, as I've said elsewhere, is why - despite wearing my nostalgia without shame - I never really got into retrocomputing.
I don't miss old computers. I miss the promise they represented.
(I *also* miss some of their design principles. And, if we're all being completely honest here, being young.)
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Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now!replied to datarama last edited by
@datarama fwiw i do not miss being young >_>
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dataramareplied to Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! last edited by
@eniko Socially, I'm much better at being middle-aged than I were at being young.
But I really, really miss having a body that doesn't hurt all the bloody time. And not having that ever-present feeling of "there isn't enough time left".
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@Professor_Stevens @eniko I'm sort of torn about this. Leaning into the popular metaphors of the day: I loved the bicycles for the mind, and I still tend to mine - but now that the entire industry is building cybertrucks for the brain, where can we even ride our bikes?
If I make code (or write articles) and share it with others, it will be forcibly appropriated by people intent on destroying the livelihoods of everyone who works creatively or intellectually.
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@Professor_Stevens @eniko The last nerd project that got me fired up creatively was a virtual machine / fantasy computer based on the question "what if my Amiga had been a Lisp Machine?". And sure, there's still a place for that sort of thing.
But it all feels depressing and meaningless, now. What's the point? We might be trying to make our little gardens, while Big Tech is pouring concrete over the entire world. And they'll hoover up anything growing in the cracks, too.
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@Professor_Stevens @eniko And the reason I'm "torn" and not just "defeated" is this: Even writing out "what if my Amiga had been a Lisp Machine?" makes *something* in me want to get back to hacking on it.