pendell

Current Hyperfixation: Wizard of Oz

  • He/Him

I use outdated technology just for fun, listen to crappy music, and watch a lot of horror movies. Expect posts about These Things. I talk a lot.

Check tags like Star Trek Archive and Media Piracy to find things I share for others.



In my recent removable media exploration, I decided to install the latest version of iomegaware on my Windows 7 Thinkpad, just to explore the featureset. Not only was it not happy to be installed on a system newer than XP, even when put into compatibility mode, it legit bricked my Windows install, next time I did a cold boot it blue-screened. Fortunately Windows was smarter than I was and had a restore point of pre-iomegaware ready to go and undid the damage I did completely.

Basically, I flew too close to the sun and nearly perished for my arrogance. Don't install XP driver software on a Windows 7 machine lol



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Nothing angers me in precisely the same way as getting advertised to by something I have already paid money for. Like, ad-supported "free" products are nasty and exploitative, sure sure sure, but I get it. It's the only way to approximate a public commons in our capitalist hellscape. I can swallow that.

But when I have paid hundreds of my own dollars for a video game console or a television, and I boot up this new device that I personally own, which should now exist for the sole purpose of doing my bidding, and it has the audacity to show me advertisements, I am incensed. Was the money I paid not enough? Must this machine try to squeeze blood from my stone-hard heart?

I do not want your disney plus. I do not want your netflix. I do not want your apple teevee. I will pirate everything you make and even still I will look upon it with scorn for the circumstances of its polluted creation. I will pray every day for the collapse of your faceless empires of rot, and hope that one day I will awaken to a culture freed from the shackles you place upon it.