Checking email. Lots of unnecessary images and fancy bloated rubbish to wade through before deciding I'm not interested anyway. What a waste of time, space, and bandwidth.
Sigh.

Nostalgia.
Used to do email by creating a text file in ed/vi/emacs and sending the file from the command line using sendmail.
Fast, neat, to the point.

Again, sigh.

#OldFogey #NewAndNotImproved

I have always regarded resistance-to-change as one of the tell-tale signs of conservatism.

However, having been a member of a particular committee for about 7 years, now seeing new members loudly expressing discontent and trying to rip-up multiple established systems, I find myself wondering how this shows appreciation for the history of people's decisions that has got the society to the state it currently enjoys.

#politics #heritage #psychology #oldfogey #stickinthemud #photography

@ibboard yup, had to do it on bluesky last eve. if you don't verify then they will stop allowing you to see certain posts (some kind of mood/tone analysis i guess) and direct messages are disabled - which i assume must now be the default for all under-18's.

i verified just fine. i simply wish it hadn't worked so quickly and definitely. #oldFogey

#WritersCoffeeClub 4: What software do you use to write?

I started out with pen and paper, because nobody owned computers. When I first began sending stuff around it was from the Macintosh SE printed out on a dot-matrix printer from the bank at the University computer lab.

Nowadays I use Libre Office. It's quite fancy by comparison.

#WritingCommunity #OldFogey #writing #authodons

@grigs
I feel like an #OldFogey saying this, but back in my #CircuitCity days, if someone returned an item, we tested it to make sure it wasn't defective, then packaged it back up to the best of our abilities, and put it back on the shelf with an #OpenBox discount sticker, usually 20-50% off retail price. We never sent anything to the #landfill unless it was legitimately broken beyond repair.
#KidsTheseDays

I have officially crossed over into #OldFogey status; my kids are watching the Disney channel and itโ€™s just annoying noise with gross overacting to me.

Bah humbug. And get off my lawn, please.

What I learned today: that some people don't know what a churchkey is, or how to use one. (My mom asked her PSW to open a can of evaporated milk with one this morning. The PSW hadn't a clue what it was or how to use it.) #oldfashionedtools #churchkey #oldfashionedcanopener #oldfogey #whatIlearnedtoday ๐Ÿ˜œ

Back in the early 90s when I was learning coding in Small-C on a CPC-6128 running CP/M, I read the advice that when outputting debug info, one should consider quoting string variables in square brackets so you can more easily tell where they stop & start when reading it.

I still adhere to that advice today

dbg_printf('Me: ThisModule-XC: think [%s] is a [%s]', graph_iri, class);

#programming #geek #oldfogey #oldtimer

@pfx see, I thought it was German for snail, so I asked my partner who knows a bit of German, and they said it meant quick. Bloody shitposting, I'm never going to get it.

#OldFogey