Notices by nuxi (nuxi@mastodon.sdf.org)

@robpike I see this most reflected in my Dad. He's a smart guy, but at 85, is swimming in a world of needless complexity. We took away always-on phones that just take a sequence of digits, and replaced them with ones that need to be charged, muted, unmuted, and rebooted. We replaced TV channels with apps, all with different and constantly shifting UIs. We replaced software with SAAS portals that are never the same from one day to the next, and require separate passwords. *I* can barely keep up.

@foone "there are very few MS-DOS games that run on MIPS processors"

Careful. You know people around here are prone to take that as a challenge.

@foone Wouldn't that, technically, be EGG?

@foone "accidental polyglots"

@foone @fozztexx seems overly straightforward. There's gotta be a way to photograph the grooves and train a neural net to read it OCR-style or something.

@fozztexx @foone

Data 45s were briefly a thing

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/jul/07/video-games-on-vinyl-flexi-discs-zx-spectrum