2017-08-07 – Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX7
fishing boats, Ko Phithak, Thailand
recent discussion complaining that computers are no longer fun when you have to deal with all the subscriptions, dark patterns, and LLM slop – and I think this is one of the big reasons retrocomputing and VCF and fantasy consoles and «toy languages» and virtual machines and emulators and permacomputing have been doing so well lately – it’s not just the nostalgia fix, it’s that something like an Uxn ROM isn’t going to ask you about your cookie preferences – RetroPie doesn’t serve you ads, pop-ups, and agreements – WordStar didn’t default save to the cloud – VisiCalc didn’t need an always-on internet connection
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