Exactly.
Controversial?
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There are no more factories producing buggy whips. Monochrome CRT TVs running on tubes are no longer manufactured. Cars don't have 8-track tape players. Things change, technology advances. Newer and shinier always overcomes old and tired. Deal with it.
SO adversarial, and in-yer-face. Been getting out of bed the wrong side this week, have we?
Goodness me...
I guess a good part of the reason I like older tech & software so much is down to my being a 'late-starter' with the 'techy' side of things.....and realising just how much good stuff I'd missed out on in the past. That, and the fact that I love seeing how far you CAN 'push' older gear, and finding out just what it's still capable of.
The 'latest & greatest' has never really held much appeal for me. That's an odd thing to admit to on ANY kind of computer tech forum, ain't it?
Lolololol...!!
Mike.
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Yeah well I was around in them days and I still like older tech and older stuff etc.
On the other side of the coin old tech becomes obsolete and then it's time to move ahead like it or not.
Some of you folks sound like old crotchety old codgers who bitch and moan and complain about everything new.
And if you're not an old crotchety old codger you're on the right track to becoming one.
Stop the whining about change and just accept it as it's going to happen and you can't stop it.
@MikeWalsh
You my friend are the exception I know and understand your point of view you are like my brother was and you know who he was.
Don't get me wrong guys I still drive a 1967 Ford F100 with three on the tree and no air conditioner needless to say I don't drive it in the summer.
I still use a vacuum tube stereo amplifier and tuner and play record albums on a turntable and use a reel to reel 10.5 inch tape deck.
So yes I too like old technology for some thing although on some things as computers I prefer newer although not the latest computers.
That being the case I accept new technology and new ways of doing things although i may like them or not like them I accept them.
Not really there's a lot of cool old usable tech still around.The 'latest & greatest' has never really held much appeal for me. That's an odd thing to admit to on ANY kind of computer tech forum, ain't it?
Lolololol...!!
Mike.
This thread isn't about old tech verses new tech it's about new software verses old software.
Here's all ya gotta do.
@The Duck :-
I hear ya, my friend. Don't get me wrong; in some ways, I like modern stuff.....to a point.
My desktop rig ain't brand-new - she's now 5 or 6 years old - but you know how much "upgrading" I did around Xmas. For what it is, it's now a whole heap more capable than it was this time last year.....considering it's DDR4-gen. But then we both know, from experience, how little THAT means in the 'Puppy' world, don't we?
The desktop rig is my main 'daily driver'. Stands to reason I'm going to keep this one as usable as I can. As for the Latitude, heh; I've always liked Dells, and the enterprise-grade Lats are about as good as they come, given what I snagged it for on eBay.
Yes, it's 'ancient' by most folks' standards. but for 'our Pup', it's still got several years of life in it yet. You learn to tailor your expectations, depending on what you have available......like learning to cut your cloth to make the most of what you can do with it. And I am, quite unashamedly, a "retro-freak". I freely admit to being so.
I've no complaints.
As for up-to-date software, I will freely admit I'm almost anal when it comes to keeping browsers up-to-date, 'cos that's the major malware vector where so much crap CAN get into the system, if you're not careful.....and as the recent slew of AI-assisted kernel reviews have shown, even Linux isn't invulnerable.
Yes, the robust permissions system goes a long way towards stopping a lot of malware in its tracks, but.....it can only do so much.
As for other software, with a lot of it we tend to take the view in Puppyland that "if it works, why try & 'fix' it?" Puppy's unique construction and usage method builds on top of the permissions stuff; it ain't perfect, but it's fairly bullet-proof once you know your way around the system.
You know yourself how secure EasyOS is.
Mike.
I hear ya, my friend. Don't get me wrong; in some ways, I like modern stuff.....to a point.
My desktop rig ain't brand-new - she's now 5 or 6 years old - but you know how much "upgrading" I did around Xmas. For what it is, it's now a whole heap more capable than it was this time last year.....considering it's DDR4-gen. But then we both know, from experience, how little THAT means in the 'Puppy' world, don't we?
The desktop rig is my main 'daily driver'. Stands to reason I'm going to keep this one as usable as I can. As for the Latitude, heh; I've always liked Dells, and the enterprise-grade Lats are about as good as they come, given what I snagged it for on eBay.
Yes, it's 'ancient' by most folks' standards. but for 'our Pup', it's still got several years of life in it yet. You learn to tailor your expectations, depending on what you have available......like learning to cut your cloth to make the most of what you can do with it. And I am, quite unashamedly, a "retro-freak". I freely admit to being so.
I've no complaints.
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As for up-to-date software, I will freely admit I'm almost anal when it comes to keeping browsers up-to-date, 'cos that's the major malware vector where so much crap CAN get into the system, if you're not careful.....and as the recent slew of AI-assisted kernel reviews have shown, even Linux isn't invulnerable.
Yes, the robust permissions system goes a long way towards stopping a lot of malware in its tracks, but.....it can only do so much.
As for other software, with a lot of it we tend to take the view in Puppyland that "if it works, why try & 'fix' it?" Puppy's unique construction and usage method builds on top of the permissions stuff; it ain't perfect, but it's fairly bullet-proof once you know your way around the system.
You know yourself how secure EasyOS is.
Mike.
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If you're addressing this to me (are you?) I find that hilarious, because that's the way I feel about people who complain about OS's and apps no longer being written in a 32-bit version.
Thanks for summing up my point very well. You get it.
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