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Post #2451641
2026-04-14 00:02 UTC
@Cheeseness@mastodon.social My preferences also align with what was around when I was a kid. And funnily enough, that stuff is still around cause it didn't just randomly stop working. I take that to fuel my bias.
And no, it's not sustainable where we are. Even with the EU forcing companies like Apple and Nintendo to make devices with replaceable batteries... that's just a start. Heck a storage medium I don't have to check every 5 years for data loss would be NICE. I'll take it in chunky size, too!
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@Cheeseness@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 00:31
@memoriesin8bit@mastodon.gamedev.place 100%! The "what was around when I was a kid" thing seems to be very strong regardless of how old one is. I grew up in the 80s, and so 80s stuff feels natural to me. The idea of hand-wound memory seems like too much, but I imagine there are people older than me who'd see that as a far healthier place to return to. I often think about what the impact would have been if right to repair had become normalised in the 70s/80s/90s alongside the rise of microcomputers