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  • anomnom@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldOur duty
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    3 days ago

    We also used to get to retire and do the childish hobbies for 15-20 years after our careers ended.

    Our grandparents had dolls, model trains, antiques and organs to play.

    You can’t give most of the shit away now, not just because tastes have changed, but I think because housing, employment and free time are all a fraction of what they were 40 years ago.













  • Postscript (not the P in PDF, even though I think it should have been) is how Portable Document Format is made.

    PostScript’s original purpose was for formatting documents to print with laser printers, but to also interpret font hinting and display features for lower resolution printing. But it required printers to process them before rasterization.

    It was so good at this that it made sense to also use it for the much lower resolution of computer screens once computers were powerful enough to do the rasterization themselves. Hence the PDF replacing most .PS (PostScript) files, unless you were a graphic design student in the late 90s.