A wave of painful nostalgia just hit me hard. I have a few old IBM machines that do not work anymore. When I got them – the usual way: people tossed them because they were outdated old junk – many of them were still operational. That was about 20 years ago. Over time they failed. Especially the MFM HDDs are anything but reliable. It might be possible to recap the boards or even get replacement versions for the PSUs, but there is probably no way to revive that feeling of listening to a Seagate ST-225 hard drive in action.
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The Downsides of Childhood and Adolescence
Glorification of childhood can be found often. Usually the argument goes something like this:
It was so great to be a child! No responsibilities, no taxes, no health concerns. School is much more pleasant than work. So much free time. Just playing and having fun!”
Parts of this can be challenged on factual level (free time, school more pleasant), but I won’t even go that route. Unpacking this would be a waste of time.
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Any phase in life has pros and cons. What is so stupid about this way of childhood glorification is comparing the downsides of adulthood with the upsides of childhood while leaving the opposite parts out. Still the majority buys that and looks back to their own time as a minor with rose-colored glasses. Excessive nostalgia casts a distorting veil of self-deception over the memories of such clowns who oversimplify everything. -
About 3DS Browser Requests
Every now and then a request for a usable browser on 3DS, including old series consoles, pops up on GBAtemp. This usually gets quickly dismissed with condescending comments (“Impossible”, “Don’t you have a phone?”) based on half-knowledge (at best). No, I do not think I’m fully in the know. I’m not a developer and am well aware of my limits! All I can say is that I got a usable browser running on a machine with a way weaker processor (Mobile Celeron 433MHz from about 1998/1999) with only 192MB of RAM. Having the whole Windows XP SP3 running in the background leaves very little memory for the browser.
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Random episode from the memories of LittleSinchen
Schools…
Schools are a hostile place. Schools are a dangerous place. Schools are a place of torment. And schools can be a place of child abuse.
One quote from Hermann Hesse’s “Unterm Rad” (Beneath the Wheel) has burned itself into my brain. Since I cannot possibly translate it properly into English, I used the free version of deepl.com
(more…)“By now they had reached the country road and quickly arrived at the monastery, where all the teachers, led by the Ephorus, received the dead Hindinger, who in life would have run away at the mere thought of such an honor. Teachers always look at a dead pupil with completely different eyes than a living one; for a moment, they are convinced of the value and irretrievability of every life and youth, which they so often carelessly sin against.”