It comes and goes… When the original MacBooks came out, especially with the Core 2 Duo, they were actually competitive with other manufacturers… Then the value started to lower until it wasn’t competitive anymore.

Hey don’t give up on 2024 yet

Funniest thing is they have a page for alternatives to their own site

Culture, to me, is the sum of activities of a group of people in a certain area during a certain period.

Aren’t games made by a group of people in a certain period? Historical artists produced commission work to live, is their art worthless because it’s made for profit?

There will be no consequences for those who made this choice because going with the biggest suppliers is never wrong: they in theory have the highest reliability, and even if they don’t, then it’s not just your problem but everyone else’s too, can’t blame those responsible when the outage is akin to an “act of God”

Now that’s a flashback that works for me

Winmodems

20 years ago was still xorg.conf times

The windows 11 installer couldn’t find any hhd partitions or hard drive, while FreeDOS could. After googling for a while I had to download an Intel Rapid Something driver from the manufacturer’s website and load it up when installing windows 11.

SATA drivers flashbacks