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Now I'm playing with power.
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A quote from Computer Lib (1974)
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Note: obviously not everyone is doing this, and some people can hold their sand.
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As for this setup, it handles all the most important audio-visual physical media: VHS, DVD, NES and GameCube.
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I think this cultural shift actually started around 2008–2010, with the advent of crypto and the metastasizing of complex web frameworks that started to replace native apps.
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I didn't learn in school that a free market economy is about the suppliers installing fascist regimes to force demand and fix prices, but maybe I understood it wrong.
Not to be alarmist, but VHS will be FIFTY YEARS old next year.
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That CD Walkman was like $5 or $10 at a thrift store btw. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115719341759043316
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It should be noted that Ted Nelson here has a bit of a naive viewpoint, as the reasons for how a machine is designed and why it exists are because people made it and people literally always have an agenda.
In other words, a machine exists because it does something that a person actively decided it should—it is the embodiment of non-neutrality.