I like how full text search of every book and human thought ever was a SOLVED PROBLEM in 2001, and now dicks at search engines and my own phone – a piece of silicon faster to respond than God was ever imagined in scripture – prevent it from working, _as a retroactive infantilizing design choice_.

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers!

age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

Una paz venir acá después de estar cinco días en el quilombo de actualidad que es Twitter. Se agradece.

I landed one a few years back for £15. The HDD was shot, so I installed an SSD - huge improvement! Only 350Mhz CPU but with tweaking and optimising, it plays games and even many MP4 films pretty decently. Not bad for a low-end 1999 computer! ☺️

At some point I'll put together a thread about this...

Patagonia truly is wilderness untamed! Furious winds transform the turquoise waters of lago Pehoe into a raging sea, blowing crashing waves side ways & literally lifting the water off the surface!

#bluesky #photography #landscape #sunrise #nature #mountains #landscapephotography #naturephotography

Black hole with pseudo-C64 aesthetics.

The last Photo I took.... Hopefully the first of many more over here on Bluesky...

Northern Lights Lights Over Polmaddy,GlenKens,Galloway Forest, Scotland #Scotland Polmaddy

Yup.

In fact, Windows 98 is around the time I started my web dev journey building my first website in Notepad.

That's right. No syntax highlighting. No copilot. Just plain text. 🤪