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Words are my favorite stim toy
This is why I buy 90% of my electronics on eBay or the local electronics salvage place. Can't have my work Macbook gentrifying my fucking desk
Say what you want about cassettepunk but I want something that both looks like and that I COULD throw out a 3 story window and pick up and use again. I don't care about what it looks like, I just want it to work and to last.
Apple hardware design peaked with the original iMac and I will not back down from this take.
the plastic powerbook that had a pull tab under the battery to slide the hard drive out
yeah those were amazing, screens should have more bezel not less
The feeling of buying an old mobile workstation from a couple in Wisconsin who are selling it on ebay for like a quarter of what it's worth is like this. You get it and it weighs 10 pounds and you hear it make ominous beeping noises when you turn it on and the battery lasts for half an hour, but it's fast, reliable, and has an owner's manual that tells you how to replace the main board in ten minutes if you want to.
The only things stopping laypeople from having one modern computer to use as a terminal to the internet and a few intranet-only 80s/90s/00s machines to do real work with older productivity software are
... Actually, you know what, I'm gonna make this its own top-level post!
classic mac os actually worked like a cluttered desk and I miss it every day
i try to at least make it fit in better by absolutely plastering it with stickers and i think it helps idk
