Author Topic: What's Bothering You? (The thread about what is bothering you.) (Read 4778276 times)

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30950 on:** Thu, 06 February 2025, 19:27:27 »

Why would video games remain the same price for 40 years? You don't think the price to develop and manufacture them has gone up exponentially? You want game developers to make .11 cents an hour?
The price of a video game has gone up just like any other product, people are just complaining because it happened quickly instead of gradually over time due to previous generations of hardware relying on game sales while selling their hardware at a loss. That model does not work in today's market, developers are hemorrhaging money, needing to turn to things like crowdfunding and early access just to barely squeeze out a game.
I feel like game prices are just starting to normalize. A 60-100hr experience should cost $80-100

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30951 on:** Fri, 07 February 2025, 11:43:14 »

Pete Souza, a former presidential photographer, said he attended one of the protests in Illinois.

“I’ve probably been to 100 political protests like this in my life, and there have always been counter protesters that show up.
Until today,” Souza wrote in an Instagram post, along with photos of the Illinois protest. “NO ONE came to support Trump/Elon. Not a single counter-protesters. ZERO.”

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30952 on:** Fri, 07 February 2025, 12:44:32 »

Quote from: fohat.digs on Fri, 07 February 2025, 11:43:14

Pete Souza, a former presidential photographer, said he attended one of the protests in Illinois.

“I’ve probably been to 100 political protests like this in my life, and there have always been counter protesters that show up.
Until today,” Souza wrote in an Instagram post, along with photos of the Illinois protest. “NO ONE came to support Trump/Elon. Not a single counter-protesters. ZERO.”

This is going no where, these people care about themselves, the rich and powerful will just sell them more distractions(copium) as they always have.

Nothing will change. The average person is not enlightened enough to care about the planet, to exist for more than themselves. When one sees the journey as merely to live a lifetime, that narrow goal is the heart of all atrocities. It's the justification for all selfish decisions.

Humanity has no future if it continues to ignore the 80 billion animals it murders every Year unnecessarily. We are the biggest hypocrites on every societal "Virtue."

What is milk, if not the rape of the feminine, theft of her blood, torture of mother and child.

A cow must be forcibly impregnated, her calf must be kidnapped so as to not drink that milk, and then we kill her and the baby for hamburgers.

All while modern science has proven that humans are biological-herbivores (starchivores).

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30953 on:** Tue, 11 February 2025, 16:02:31 »

The giant size MF DOOM is briefly in stock since this place received their shipment late. It's been sold out for almost a month everywhere and going on eBay for crazy prices. Still too poor to justify dropping MSRP on it though

https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/306319

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30954 on:** Thu, 13 February 2025, 19:58:23 »

It appears that Musk got a $400 Million contract from the military for "armored" Cybertrucks - as was posted on the Congressional Record and then quickly scrubbed.

What a guy, what a pair of guys!

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30955 on:** Fri, 14 February 2025, 16:23:59 »

My 40th Valentine's Day alone, yaaaaaaay! Here's to 40 more years of lonely sadness and anger, what a great life.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30956 on:** Fri, 14 February 2025, 16:56:08 »

Tp4 doesn't know what day it is except that it's friday.

Thanks for ruining it NT.

iri · « **Reply #30957 on:** Fri, 14 February 2025, 17:43:44 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 14 February 2025, 16:23:59

My 40th Valentine's Day alone, yaaaaaaay! Here's to 40 more years of lonely sadness and anger, what a great life.

Wow, you expect to live till 80? I see you set lofty goals.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30958 on:** Fri, 14 February 2025, 17:49:17 »

Quote from: iri on Fri, 14 February 2025, 17:43:44

Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 14 February 2025, 16:23:59
My 40th Valentine's Day alone, yaaaaaaay! Here's to 40 more years of lonely sadness and anger, what a great life.
Wow, you expect to live till 80?

Hopefully not, but with my terrible luck I'll live to be 112.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30959 on:** Fri, 14 February 2025, 17:52:18 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 14 February 2025, 17:49:17

Quote from: iri on Fri, 14 February 2025, 17:43:44
Quote from: noisyturtle on Fri, 14 February 2025, 16:23:59
My 40th Valentine's Day alone, yaaaaaaay! Here's to 40 more years of lonely sadness and anger, what a great life.
Wow, you expect to live till 80?

Hopefully not, but with my terrible luck I'll live to be 112.

Tp4 has 99.99% confidence NT will not live that long, though Tp4 hopes otherwise.

Findecanor · « **Reply #30960 on:** Sat, 15 February 2025, 01:10:37 »

I expect to have maybe six years left.

If you are a doctor, and I tell you:
• My blood- levels are low, and I take strong iron supplements just to stay awake.
• I have this note from another doctor who thinks it is likely that I have some kind of cancer, but unsure which. He urges you to investigate and do what it takes so that a diagnosis will be reached.
• I have a pain in my right knee.

What would you investigate me for first?

This happened to me during 2002. After several dead-beat doctors who could not put this together and sometimes refused to do anything because I already had visited a previous doctor .... I went to the emergency room and had to lie: claiming that all my symptoms were new. First then did I get an X-ray, which led to a diagnosis. By then, the blood-cancer in my knee had spread and become chronic (treatable for the moment, but not completely: it can return) and I had a secondary cancer that led to the removal of my colon.
The bad doctors are still at their old jobs, allowed to "practice" medicine.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30961 on:** Sat, 15 February 2025, 02:10:03 »

Quote from: Findecanor on Sat, 15 February 2025, 01:10:37

I expect to have maybe six years left.

If you are a doctor, and I tell you:
• My blood- levels are low, and I take strong iron supplements just to stay awake.
• I have this note from another doctor who thinks it is likely that I have some kind of cancer, but unsure which. He urges you to investigate and do what it takes so that a diagnosis will be reached.
• I have a pain in my right knee.

What would you investigate me for first?

This happened to me during 2002. After several dead-beat doctors who could not put this together and sometimes refused to do anything because I already had visited a previous doctor .... I went to the emergency room and had to lie: claiming that all my symptoms were new. First then did I get an X-ray, which led to a diagnosis. By then, the blood-cancer in my knee had spread and become chronic (treatable for the moment, but not completely: it can return) and I had a secondary cancer that led to the removal of my colon.
The bad doctors are still at their old jobs, allowed to "practice" medicine.

In Fantastic Fungi, the documentary about the Mycelium kingdom. Ayahuasca-trips // magic mushrooms have been made into pill form and taken under professional medical guided therapy which effectively removed patient's anxiousness/ fear of death.

Existing treatments for cancer such as Chemo are HIGHLY ineffective, so much so, that doctors would not prescribe it for themselves because the side effects are so terrible and the probability of recovery is incredibly low.

Reversing cancer might be possible in the future, but that is an uncertainty you probably can not act upon.

The documentary also goes over many species of fungi such as turkey-tail which has been shown to up-regulate the body's immunity enough such that ONTOP of chemo, it may create an equilibrium that Gives-You enough years for AI to arrive at a thorough solution.

In the meantime, the Ayahuasca // magic mushrooms experimental therapy could help you in the objective side of mind such that you don't "cognate" so negatively about the predicament.

Whole-food-plant-based-diet is also a non-negotiable routine for anyone with cancer or family history, it's used by the Nuclear Industry (though not publicly talked about. But you can trust that they know plenty about their guys getting cancer and if WFPB doesn't work, a bunch of stem-field engineers wouldn't be doing it.)

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30962 on:** Sat, 15 February 2025, 09:21:42 »

Why isn't this guy president ?? Capitalism that's why. Democrats dropped the ball.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30963 on:** Sat, 15 February 2025, 10:13:44 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 15 February 2025, 09:21:42

Democrats dropped the ball.

I disagree. The Democratic Party lost because of the gullibility, disinformation, and stupidity of people who can't get past first order thinking.

Our country has been trapped in a cycle of the "Right" wrecking our society and then as soon as the "Left" manages to start repairing it - the "Right" swoops in and convinces enough gullible voters to support them (usually by framing successes as failures) that they can get back into power and continue helping themselves to the wealth of the nation. The Civil War/Reconstruction was not the first cycle but was probably the most dramatic.

One difference today is that the "Right" has achieved both an unprecedented amount of power and is pursuing its agenda with an unprecedented aggression.

Archduke Musk's historical MO for takeovers is to strip everything down to the ground, and then add back, piece by minimal piece, "just enough" to make it appear to start "working" again. Anything and everything else, such as science, health, education, food, housing (and any form of art!) is merely collateral damage.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30964 on:** Sat, 15 February 2025, 10:43:18 »

Quote from: fohat.digs on Sat, 15 February 2025, 10:13:44

I disagree. The Democratic Party lost because of the gullibility, disinformation, and stupidity of people who can't get past first order thinking.

Our country has been trapped in a cycle of the "Right" wrecking our society and then as soon as the "Left" manages to start repairing it - the "Right" swoops in and convinces enough gullible voters to support them (usually by framing successes as failures) that they can get back into power and continue helping themselves to the wealth of the nation. The Civil War/Reconstruction was not the first cycle but was probably the most dramatic.

One difference today is that the "Right" has achieved both an unprecedented amount of power and is pursuing its agenda with an unprecedented aggression.

Archduke Musk's historical MO for takeovers is to strip everything down to the ground, and then add back, piece by minimal piece, "just enough" to make it appear to start "working" again. Anything and everything else, such as science, health, education, food, housing (and any form of art!) is merely collateral damage.

Did you even watch what Bernie said? "Paraphrase" DEMOCRAT Oligarchs Dropped the ball.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30965 on:** Sat, 15 February 2025, 11:42:50 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 15 February 2025, 10:43:18

DEMOCRAT Oligarchs

Dropping down to the level of the Evil Ones is not a legitimate response to evil. As Bernie said "For some reason, which I cannot understand, they suffer from addiction to greed."

Each party (aka "Faction" when the Founding Fathers were bemoaning how horrible they are) has 3 components: (1) the mega-wealthy "puppet masters" of that party (2) the elected politicians of that party (3) the persons who voted the politicians representing that party into office.

(1) The politicians - and only the politicians - bear responsibility for the policies and actions of our government.
(2) Puppet masters, on the Right, under Reagan, were able to commandeer a large portion of "the media" and spread their propaganda and outright lies with complete impunity.
(3) Persons who are eligible to vote have a responsibility to keep themselves informed. That is the crucial component to the survival of any sort of democracy. Who could possibly believe that the mega-wealthy have the well-being of the people as a priority? Only an utter moron.

Federalist 63 excerpt
"So there are particular moments in public affairs when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn. In these critical moments, how salutary will be the interference of some temperate and respectable body of citizens, in order to check the misguided career, and to suspend the blow meditated by the people against themselves, until reason, justice, and truth can regain their authority over the public mind? What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against the tyranny of their own passions? Popular liberty might then have escaped the indelible reproach of decreeing to the same citizens the hemlock on one day and statues on the next."

In the 15th minute, Bernie zeroed in on the crux of the issue.

You cannot continue to use your disingenuous both-sides-ism to "explain" evasion of the responsibilites of citizenship.

Trump is just Trump, always has been and always will be.
But anybody who participates in or supports the MAGA movement bears responsibility for what is happening today.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30966 on:** Tue, 18 February 2025, 22:51:32 »

Not often in life you meet people who are very clearly, sensibly, an order of magnitude more intelligent/cerebral. You follow the conversation, very quickly, you realize, they don't have the answer to existential questions either, and that deep sinking feeling sets in, this is it, I am going to go become a drunk, because this is the end why bother.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30967 on:** Tue, 18 February 2025, 23:07:13 »

Can we start using luigi as a verb?
As in: 'I wish someone would luigi Elon'

I think it could catch on, open to interpretation

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30968 on:** Tue, 18 February 2025, 23:08:32 »

It's a good thing you're white, or they'd send you to that new fancy 30,000 bed concentration camp.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30969 on:** Wed, 19 February 2025, 08:07:08 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Tue, 18 February 2025, 22:51:32

they don't have the answer to existential questions either

Existential questions are, by their nature, unanswered.

Is the environment of the planet in grave danger? Of course it is. So why is it still a question? Because large numbers of people refuse to accept a reality that they do not like.

Quote from: noisyturtle on Tue, 18 February 2025, 23:07:13

Can we start using luigi as a verb?

Great idea!

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #30970 on:** Wed, 19 February 2025, 08:44:01 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Thu, 06 February 2025, 19:27:27

Why would video games remain the same price for 40 years? You don't think the price to develop and manufacture them has gone up exponentially? You want game developers to make .11 cents an hour?
The price of a video game has gone up just like any other product, people are just complaining because it happened quickly instead of gradually over time due to previous generations of hardware relying on game sales while selling their hardware at a loss. That model does not work in today's market, developers are hemorrhaging money, needing to turn to things like crowdfunding and early access just to barely squeeze out a game.
I feel like game prices are just starting to normalize. A 60-100hr experience should cost $80-100

I believe you are in this industry and it's not that I don't want people to be able to make a living, after getting their computer science degree. My gripe is with general greed. Its the same with movies, instead of creating artistic movies with a small budget, every movie needs to be a 500mil investment, hoping to make a billion. I have stopped buying "AAA" titles because most are broken, incomplete, and not worth their time investment. Now, there are exceptions to the rule, but there are no shortage of creative, fun games, that only cost $20-$40 at regular MSRP pricing. Dredge, Stardew Valley, Dave the Diver, Untitled Goose Game, Raft, etc.

Couple that with games are shipping broken with the expectation that paying customers dog food the game and only after a few months and a few patches, do they get a full game.

EDIT: Also selling a game with a season pass with the hopes that they will deliver DLC that is anything close to what was promised. Stop selling games/content that doesn't exist.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30971 on:** Wed, 19 February 2025, 12:15:10 »

So, the United States pushes Ukraine into war with Russia.

War starts> France+Germany says hol'up let's negotiate> Britain+USA says NO negotiations, blows up the gas pipeline, we need to hurt Russia, Ukrainians can die, it's not our army dudes, sends weapons, cash, etc, props up their puppet Zelensky.

Now, Trump comes in, calls Zelensky a dictator, and "sells" Ukraine back to Russia for Mineral rights, which we won't even be able to collect on. Because they'll be rebuilding infrastructure for at least 20 years, after which climate change basically kills everyone anyway.

What a waste of money and munitions. We have a ton of problems producing munitions btw. It just doesn't fall off trees. It's a highly toxic industry chemically, and minerally. Extraction of metals is 1% stuff, 99% tailings, which just pile up onsite, and it's just toxic pollution. The chemistry pollutes rivers, population centers. Workers have way higher rates of cancer. These factories are horribly toxic because they don't have oversight/laws which can be enforced, when it's producing for the enforcers.

Zelensky can't exactly surrender to Russia himself, that would be the end of him and his chain of oligarchs, they'd all be hunted down to the ends of the earth.

Surrender is generally going to be a good thing for Ukraine and the world, but it's only a short term reprieve.

Trump torpedoing our own economy, well, again, good for the earth, bad for the low income americans, it's really just tax the poor so the rich can continue to spend lavishly. This is on the positive path, but it's absolutely the LEAST effective climate measure in relative terms.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30972 on:** Thu, 20 February 2025, 17:29:40 »

Very glad I got my flu and COVID shots Tuesday, a day before my own government announced defuding flu and COVID vaccines.
Amidst the worst flu season in years, while there is a bird flu outbreak, a new COVID strain, and measles are somehow coming back.
But defund and get rid of vaccines for these problems. Don't forget to cough on your local billionaire, and stock up on ammo!

phinix · « **Reply #30973 on:** Fri, 21 February 2025, 03:46:24 »

Quote from: noisyturtle on Tue, 11 February 2025, 16:02:31

The giant size MF DOOM is briefly in stock since this place received their shipment late. It's been sold out for almost a month everywhere and going on eBay for crazy prices. Still too poor to justify dropping MSRP on it though
https://www.bigbadtoystore.com/Product/VariationDetails/306319

Why do you want that noisy? Do you collect those kind of toys?

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30974 on:** Sat, 22 February 2025, 09:05:59 »

Was going to buy some colored pencils today, then all this AI stuff show up in Tp4's feed, and it's like, yea..... Just give up Tp4, you're hughmahn.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30975 on:** Sun, 23 February 2025, 16:45:35 »

Last month: "Two men died after they contracted a rare fungal infection from exposure to bat feces, also known as guano, that they were using to grow cannabis plants."
My local dispensary: "Bat **** is grown 100% naturally using naturally sourced bat guano"

no thank you, I'm good on that

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30976 on:** Sun, 23 February 2025, 16:55:09 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Sat, 22 February 2025, 09:05:59

buy some colored pencils

Blick is my favorite supplier.

https://www.****blick.com/categories/drawing/

iri · « **Reply #30977 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 16:38:14 »

USA is now a Russian puppet state and it's pretty hilarious!

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #30978 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 16:57:54 »

Quote from: iri on Mon, 24 February 2025, 16:38:14

USA is now a Russian puppet state and it's pretty hilarious!

Only if you don't live in America or on Earth? Somehow Russia isn't the bad guy, despite attacking a nation that was not hostile in any way.

iri · « **Reply #30979 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 17:00:36 »

I do live on Earth, but it's still hilarious!

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30980 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:32:23 »

Quote from: TomahawkLabs on Mon, 24 February 2025, 16:57:54

Quote from: iri on Mon, 24 February 2025, 16:38:14
USA is now a Russian puppet state and it's pretty hilarious!

Only if you don't live in America or on Earth? Somehow Russia isn't the bad guy, despite attacking a nation that was not hostile in any way.

That's not what happened. The Ukraine Invasion is 99% USA's fault. Our own military generals warned us for 2 decades that Pushing Atlanticism (Nato) was going to result in the destruction of Ukraine. That was Putin's red line, and we deliberately crossed it by our policies in expanding Nato Nuclear missiles eastward, even though we promised not to do so near the end of the Soviet Union in negotiation with Gorbachev.

It seemed like a good idea at the time, because the US could effectively destroy Russia, but the reverse was not true. But even after They've demonstrated Full-Capabilities to thoroughly Annihilate the United States, we CONTINUED to prod them with, maybe Ukraine joins Nato. Putin flipped the table over, and here we are. We just lost half the United States to Russia.

You do not understand how severe this is, but it was inevitable given our own disillusion with our capabilities. Capitalism played right into their hands.

In the end, it doesn't matter, this is all small potatoes compared to the climate apocalypse in the next 20 years.

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #30981 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:35:25 »

**** Russia. They are the bad guys flat out. Have been since god knows when, but specifically with Crimea. Regardless of what US did, Russia is in the wrong.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30982 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:38:28 »

Quote from: TomahawkLabs on Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:35:25

**** Russia. They are the bad guys flat out. Have been since god knows when, but specifically with Crimea. Regardless of what US did, Russia is in the wrong.

It's a popular perspective if you've been indoctrinated by OUR own, American mass media. But the problem is, WE and parts of the UK are the only population which believes that.

Everyone else in the world is well aware that America has been the biggest most Belligerent Gangster in the world by a significant margin, NO ONE LIKES US. Our sponsorship of military coups and genocide on nearly every continent. The News media makes it seem like we're awesome and we're great, but that's just not the reality in our world standing.

PUSH COMES TO SHOVE, we just don't have the capacity to rule the world (anymore), it is simply not possible, and our System of government doesn't know how to behave / play nice.

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #30983 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:42:45 »

The US is far from innocent in the world of Geo-politics. I've listened to Flobots, thank you very much (joke). But jokes aside, the US is very rarely the good guy and more often than not playing puppet master for our own gain, but I can't think of a single thing Russia does or has done that makes them a good guy. They are one of, if not the biggest batch of oligarchs (yes, the US does too, but that's playing what-about-ism) and they don't even try to hide it. What Russia has done to the Ukrainian people is objectively wrong.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30984 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:49:14 »

It's important to understand that ALL Oligarchs of any nationality are *******s. By extension, 98% of rich people, most of whom are captains in the system.

What is an oligarch, he gets fat, you do all the work, and when he gets his panties in a twist, you are expected to die for him. That's the system. There's no such thing as COUNTRY, or Democrap or Repooplicant.

There's just YOU, a Slave, and the Slave-Master. He owns this land, and you, who was born on his land.

They're all the same relative to YOU, and the rest of the Slaves.

Read, get educated.

If you're really smart, kill them back (some how).

If you're just mid-tier intelligence like Tp4, do the absolute minimum amount of labor, play vidya, throw wrenches into the engine when no one's looking.

In the end, NOTHING MATTERS MORE, than eating 100% Veggie, that is the most critical action any human can take upon himself to do.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30985 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:57:45 »

Trump wants what Putin was able to do, which is to superseded democracy and install a fascist regime that rules through fear. Thing is Trump won't live that long, so all he's doing is making more work for everyone to reverse his damage once he croaks. Putin is in good health, and will continue to 'win' every election by default by poisoning and pushing his opponents out of windows.

It works for Putin because he was KGB and has a network of highly trained ops to do his bidding. Trump is attempting to do that with a network of teenagers with God complexes. It aint gonna work out the way he thinks.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30986 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 19:09:14 »

It depends on how well Trump can rally the military generals. If they go this route, what will happen is, Trump will die, and we'll have our own Putin step up.

Luckily we have a few level guys in the military, but if they kill these guys off really fast, they can take power.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30987 on:** Mon, 24 February 2025, 20:08:33 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Mon, 24 February 2025, 19:09:14

we have a few level guys in the military

I used to assume that while the enlisted ranks included quite a few angry troglodytes, the general officers were generally more educated and disciplined. Sure hope that remains the case.

iri · « **Reply #30988 on:** Tue, 25 February 2025, 04:09:33 »

Quote from: TomahawkLabs on Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:42:45

I can't think of a single thing Russia does or has done that makes them a good guy

Yes of course -- your propaganda machine will never mention this.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30989 on:** Tue, 25 February 2025, 11:44:11 »

Quote from: iri on Tue, 25 February 2025, 04:09:33

Quote from: TomahawkLabs on Mon, 24 February 2025, 18:42:45
I can't think of a single thing Russia does or has done that makes them a good guy
Yes of course -- your propaganda machine will never mention this.

If we're talking about Pu7in's when we're refering to Russia, he very much is a pretty bad guy. His regime is entirely kleptocratic.

Western governments are largely also kleptocratic, but there's a small fraction more focus on public good/ infrastructure, not much but it's there.

In the end, the point to take home for Iri the Slave, living in a Slave-master's world, isn't to argue about WHO has the best/worst Slave Master.

Iri isn't Ru55ian, he's just Iri. Ru55ia, is the Slave master's Machine, the technology of enslavement.

That division only serves the Pu7in, or 7rump or B1den, They're all equally bad.

noisyturtle · « **Reply #30990 on:** Wed, 26 February 2025, 17:10:29 »

Michelle Trachtenburg passed away today. She was only 39.

One of my childhood crushes, her passing left me with such a weird and sad feeling. Unexpected in many ways.

tp4tissue · « **Reply #30991 on:** Wed, 26 February 2025, 19:52:21 »

Too many books, Tp4 can't learn all this crap.

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30992 on:** Wed, 26 February 2025, 20:22:30 »

Quote from: tp4tissue on Wed, 26 February 2025, 19:52:21

Too many books

I suggest moving this to the top of the list.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196774338-the-light-eaters

TomahawkLabs · « **Reply #30993 on:** Thu, 27 February 2025, 12:23:31 »

I joined discord, specifically a server for older hardware (alps, etc). They are very staunch about not modifying or harvesting old key switches because preservation. But a keyboard is but a tool to interface with a computer. Nobody will be using an IBM 5140 laptop in todays world. The switches are the only thing of value (outside display/museum).

fohat.digs · « **Reply #30994 on:** Thu, 27 February 2025, 14:11:59 »

Quote from: TomahawkLabs on Thu, 27 February 2025, 12:23:31

harvesting old key switches

The switches are the only thing of value

Agreed. While most things get more poorly built yet much more expensive as time goes by, there are dramatic exceptions.

Electronics, in particular - my first computer was a 1986 "IBM clone" with an 80286 processor, 10MB hard drive, and 1MB of RAM and cost me $2800 with monitor (but no printer).

And even though 1980s keyboards were generally much better built than today's wisps of plastic, the switches are often all that is salvageable. Even the key caps usually included a few truly oddball configurations that don't work in today's world.

PS - and don't forget how valuable those 1975 dollars were when gasoline cost half a dollar per gallon and the minimum wage was two dollars per hour ....
PPS - and a label saying "Made in Japan" meant that it was cheap junk !