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68040
512 MB  Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done ! 
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on: November 04, 2021, 20:47
The point is I *want* the fasted system you could possibly dream off. Did I mention the jealous rage I felt as a teenager and young student, towards all those rich kids living in the well-to-do suburbs, who could afford powerful workstations and yet had nothing better to do with them but to dabble in meaningless school publications and boring term papers? Even then I was writing software for Fortune 500 companies, who paid me barely enough to make month's end. I knew I'd be the CEO of my own high-tech outfit soon, if only I could get my hands on one of those machines and use it for actual development. Now, many decades later, I got money for big machines - but the tech world doesn't belong to the guys with the cool ideas and the cheap haircuts anymore. The big corporations are back in the driver's seat - more firmly attached to it than ever. So what else is an aging nerd to do, to get his imaginary revenge? I'd build me the most powerful 68k machine imaginable and run all the software on it that I would owned back in the day, if only I'd been one of those dreaded suburbanites myself. |
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Last Edit: November 07, 2021, 20:26 by 68040
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB  Posts: 2023
Reply #1 on: November 06, 2021, 15:12
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We're getting a bit off-topic, so we may want to split this off but I feel I have to post something - I assume many of us here can personally relate at least to parts of what you wrote. Just like you, I was among the ones hoping that tech, the www and internet would eventually end the reign of lawyers and MBA'ers. I was also fully convinced that access to the internet for everyone will make us more sophisticated and better human beings. Both did not happen, at least not to the degree that I would have wished. A lot of "early tech people" or "tech pioneers" are disappointed with what the turnout is. We switched from being on the information highway to the sales highway ... I see it this way - using a (quote) "ridiculously outdated" Mac OS like 7 .6 or 8.1 is our way of saying "dear profit maximizers, go to hell!". It's a proclamation of freedom. I love it for that.
Last Edit: November 07, 2021, 14:47 by Bolkonskij
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #2 on: November 07, 2021, 02:25
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When I was still young & hopeful I used to believe in Isaac Asimov, I mean truly *believed* that his postiv vision of the future was an accurate prediction of things to come. And nowadays its all just about commerce, porn and lifting Jeff Bezos into orbit (if only he would stay there). So yes, my tech nostalgia is in large part fueled by the desire to at least mentally return back to a time, when nerds like me could believe in changing the world through actual progress. Not by oppression or dogmatism or turning society into a joyless jailhouse. The promise of prosperity was gospel to me: Energy, technology, adventures - we were supposed to have more of anything all around, in a world run by all knowing machines, that we had programmed. And now we are about to enter the 3rd year of fear, with the next catastrophe - threatening loss and poverty - already looming in the shadows. I can't switch on the news w/o somebody foretelling me stories of mankind's utter demise. And in the meantime powerfull CEOs got nothing better to do than burn Millions of $ for a less than 5 minutes hop into what they call "space". When I sit before my Vintage Mac setup I feel good - better than I ever felt sitting in front of an Office PC and most certainly better than watching TV.
Last Edit: November 07, 2021, 05:45 by 68040
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Bolkonskij
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Administrator 1024 MB Posts: 2023
Reply #3 on: November 07, 2021, 14:54
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Quote And nowadays its all just about commerce, porn and lifting Jeff Bezos into orbit (if only he would stay there). This quote made my day. Love it. Thanks. Quote When I sit before my Vintage Mac setup I feel good - better than I ever felt sitting in front of an Office PC and most certainly better than watching TV. Amen. Same here. And elsewhere too. I'm sure. We need to start a "Personal Computing" revolution ...
Last Edit: November 07, 2021, 16:07 by Bolkonskij
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68040
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512 MB Posts: 950 68k - thy kingdom come, thy will be done !
Reply #4 on: November 07, 2021, 17:10
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What we need is to put the "Personal" back into Computing. Or to say it in MacTalk: "Put the 'I' back into IT". I just waisted two weeks to fully unlock a tablet I paid almost $1k for. I had to "jailbreak" (root) my device to do what? To be able to store & access files on the external SD w/o undue restrictions. Jeezus Mary + Joseph … I have to void the warranty on a brand new thousand $ tablet, just to be able to use that SDXC card for more than a dust cover? And all this because Google wants to force us into their cloud, so they may harvest our data like wheat on the field. It used to be: My computer, my data, my programs … and I do with that sheyit as I please. Yet nowadays I read this kind of standard advise on many so called tech sites: "Don't try to stop any of these countless background apps. They consume no resources you couldn't spare and were put there for good reason". Active background apps that supposedly consume no resources and stuff I don't want or need is constantly sending data about me to unknown destinations for "good reason"?? This stuff freaks me out man and I am getting darn mad that almost *every* app from the store is now collecting information about me, that they of course "anonymize" (or so they say) before they send it out to parties unknown. And don't even get me started about Windoze, where I can't alter or delete files in entire directory structures on my C partition, even when I am logged in as Admin. All of course for "my own protection". And I thought I paid for that crap to own it. :-O
Last Edit: November 07, 2021, 17:14 by 68040
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