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• @wafflesies@infosec.exchange 2026-10-24 23:23

  @lain@lain.com as I’m being handed off vintage computers something that really struck me was how polished Steve Jobs vision was, as I’d never owned a Mac before. Of course the problem was Macs especially the powermac g5 was it was unobtanium and wasn’t a normal home computer like a lot of apples other offerings. So by the time vista came out and caused me to switch to Linux Mac wasn’t an option so I was left coping with what I could manage on my half broken laptop. So a lot of what we knew about computers was whatever slop Microsoft was cooking up and we pretended it was good because we just lacked a better alternative Chances are these zoomers probably can’t operate these vintage machines to any meaningful extent. They want the aesthetic of old windows and old macOS without the hassle of actually using it. They want the iPod without iTunes, video playback without quicktime, utorrent without the ads, flash games without flash banner ads. All stuff we have now and didn’t have back then.

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