Subj : Re: Hi all!
To   : Nightfox
From : hyjinx
Date : Fri Sep 19 2025 07:51 pm

 Ni>   By: hyjinx to Nightfox on Thu Sep 11 2025 09:01 pm

 Ni>  hy> When computers started to become more about tools rather than objects
 Ni>  hy> fun and tinkering. That's probably when I lost interest in the hardwa
 Ni> 
 Ni> When was that?  I feel like they're often still for fun and tinkering.  I 
 Ni> like they've been both for fun and tools for a long time..  You can still 
 Ni> your own desktop PC if you want to, and these days, there are also DIY pro
 Ni> you can make with a Raspberry Pi board & similar things - There are a lot 
 Ni> fun projects you can work on.  And there are still good games for computer
 Ni> 

Normal consumer computing (so, I wouldn't consider the RaspberryPI part of that) was fun and interesting. Every other month, you were wondering what new amazing tech was coming along - new graphics like the advances from 4 colours to 16, to 256, to millions, new CPUs which were significant marks better than the ones before. Exciting new operating systems that did things that no others did before it in some way or another. Untold amounts of tinkering, just for tinkerings sake.

Now Windows has been amounted to a big pile of advertising, CPUs are all pretty much meh, all the same, Graphics cards, whilst insane, are all just doing the same thing, just faster, PCs encouraged tinkering and upgrading, different computer types still existed on the market - Acorn Archimedes, Macintosh PPC/64k, Atari ST, Amiga and the 8 bits before them. Linux has been turned into a big lot of boring blah - enterprise kubernetes containerised IoT function deployers.

Yawn.`


hyjinx // Alistair Ross
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