The web as a layout tool is so far ahead of anything that was ever in Windows as to be from another planet.

That’s the main reason it’s used now. Making things look nice without having to reinvent the wheel. I guess fuck me for not wanting simple apps to use several GB of RAM.

Same until I got an MP3 player and it didn’t know what the fuck a .wma file was. Had to re-rip them to a proper format.

That’s the one. It would pull data from online so you wouldn’t have to enter all the track names.

I think we need many UIs to cater for lots of different types of users and then you just choose the one you want.

Everyone having to use the same thing is what killed reddit for most of us.

That and DVDs were like £3 most of the time. I’d always be picking up stuff just for the hell of it. Got shelves full of them.

Blu-rays and especially 4K Blu-rays were pretty much always full price of £20. That’s at least a whole month of any streaming service and sometimes two. Plus I can barely tell any difference between streaming and disc, especially on the picture quality. The audio is more noticeable, but not worth £20 a movie.

The current streaming services will slowly decline as well until they realise they need to switch to a music industry model where nearly everything is on every service. I installed Jellyfin ages ago, and the experience of just having one service to look through is so much better than dipping into half a dozen apps to see if any of them have what you want to watch.

I know what I’m after as an experience, it’s up to them if they want to provide it at a reasonable price.

I think I actually preferred the second. Less reliance on blowing you up and making you restart puzzles.

I saw someone driving a Microlino the other day. Daft little thing, but you can’t deny it turns heads. If only because people are saying “wtf is that?”

What if a worker didn’t dob them in, and they said they did in order to hide the real way they found them.

The NSA ain’t giving up their secrets that easily.

Lots of people played Among Us and haven’t killed a CEO.

Yet.

Frankfurters.

And who is going to pay for that? If they could afford to refund all their customers they wouldn’t be going bust.

That was only in the Super FX cartridges wasn’t it? Is mode 7 really 3D, or just rotating and scaling of a single background layer?

Are our modern GPUs just mode 7 run millions of times on a much smaller scale…

If it has 3D hardware it ain’t retro.

Mostly seems to be timed these days.

Bloodborne still MIA though.

TFW PS5 only.

You just know that their “AI driven platform” is a call to google for the brand names they’re “protecting” followed by takedown requests issued to the registered email followed by one to the registrar for every domain found.

We need a new internet because this one is fucked.

* that actually pays out when you need something.

And even if you don’t need billions in startup capital for land and buildings and machinery, you’ve still got cash flow concerns.

Say you want to make software, and you know you can make it in 3 years with 20 people. What are you going to use to pay the bills until you’ve finished making whatever it is? Where are you going to find people who will go without money for that time? What if there’s no market for it by the time you’ve done?

Precious Moments for nerds.

There was quite a few in the UK as well, mostly in Leicester (large Indian immigrant population there). People being paid £3 an hour when it should have been about £8 at the time.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/13/poor-working-conditions-persist-in-leicester-garment-factories-finds-survey

If you buy cheap clothes from the likes of BooHoo you should know that they’re made in these places, and if you buy expensive clothes, then they’re probably made in the exact same conditions with a nicer label sewn in the back and a better PR department to handwave away any wrongdoing.