• bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
    29·
    4 months ago

    I still have a directory of installers for “useful programs”. Some of them probably date back to the 90s and would need dosbox to run.

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
      5·
      3 months ago

      I have the same and only needed to dip into one time for my WiiManager app to check on my Wii library backup on a external HDD.

  • mozz@mbin.grits.dev
    23·
    4 months ago

    I once watched a depression era family member of mine dismantle a Chinese take out container, flatten and wash the cardboard part of it and then put it in the paper recycling, and straighten out the wire handle to put into a little jar with other wires and bits of metal.

    Same family member once showed me a stack of paper grocery bags she had taken into her place from her building’s paper recycling, upset that someone had thrown away perfectly good paper bags.

  • marcos@lemmy.world
    21·
    4 months ago

    I have a feeling calling the “The Great” enshitification will age up like that one “The Great” War.

    • otp
      1·
      3 months ago

      “great” means large and significant. Nobody thought the war or enshittification was good

      • marcos@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        I guess you are missing some history here. “The Great” War is not the war you’d think about by hearing that name.

        In fact, the name lasted about 15 years, never to be used again.

        • otp
          1·
          3 months ago

          I’m not sure what war you think one would be thinking about – I’ve only ever heard it used to refer to WW1.

          • entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org
            1·
            2 months ago

            Their initial point was that the name “The Great War” aged like milk because WWII was bigger, not that any people thought it was good

            • otp
              2·
              2 months ago

              Ah, I see. Yeah, I had no idea that that’s what they were getting at because if something bigger came along, we could just call it “The Greater” X, lol

  • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    4·
    3 months ago

    Implying that it was worse and has gotten better, or will get better to the point where data hoarding is unnecessary. I guess it would be nice if things turned out that well.