It’s the early 1970s and you are maxing out processing time on your timeshare mainframe account skipping BATCH and yet to learn the lessons of planning, design, analysis to maximise processing per second on a leased line connected to a timeshare mainframe.
#AI / #MaxToken / #tokens / #PersonalComputing / #computing / #architecture / #PC
When I started my recent uxn project I was feeling really burned out by tech, and my personal laptop was a small part if that. I bought it three years ago, and while its a decent laptop on paper (Zenbook, 4k screen, 16gb ram, 1tb hdd, the usual stuff) I started to hate the thing. I had to send it in for screen repairs once and the battery now only lasts about 10 minutes before my system starts panicking, meaning its barely even portable now.
In the spirit of #uxn and reusing older tech I pulled out my "travel laptop" -- a 12 inch linux-compatible chromebook i got for less than $200 CAD in 2018. Disposable laptop in case it got seized or dropped while out of country.
It's a terrible laptop by modern standards. The screen is tiny, the keyboard is weird, the charger is some stupid custom tiny pinhole, no usb-c ports, 4gb ram, 32gb storage, and takes 30+ seconds to boot firefox.
And you know what? I love it. I didn't at first, but what do you even need for coding? Vim and a terminal and some documentation is plenty. Don't even need internet most of the time if you have the uxn docs downloaded!
Now this little guy is my daily driver. It's not logged into a single account I own (I still have a cellphone for that). It's simple and small and peaceful computer-ing.
When the #AIbubble pops, let's not suddenly forget that the world's silicon foundries/chip fabs chose to pivot away from general/personal computing, in the name of higher profits.
2000s Windows ME by Microsoft—So Many Possibilities!
Remember when your PC felt like it could do everything? This Windows Me spot leans into that fresh-boot excitement—bright, friendly, and full of “ready for more” energy. If you ever installed ME and felt the future click into place, this one’s for you.
#windowsme #windowsmecommercial #microsoftwindows #microsoft #personalcomputing #dialupera #windowsxpnostalgia #pcgaminghistory #earlyinternet #turnofthemillennium #2000scomputers #retrotech #
Ostrom's 'Tragedy of Commons' seems incomplete regarding opensource:
Farmer's have never experienced all their crops getting inspected and cloned 24/7 by robots from a handful of superfarmers.
Luckily there's an antidote since the 90s:
robots.txt
Just joking :)
It feels like the "dont copy that floppy"-people went "sloppy that floppy" to lure us into their slop-malls.
My current personal antidotes are: #permacomputing #localfirst #personalcomputing #retrocomputing
The concept of an "AI" PC keeps swirling around those days.
This time its #Nvidia with an #arm CPU and a GPU with 6,144 CUDA cores(...) but running... windoz 🤣
Anyway, #linux support might happen at some point but unclear if there will ever be a "new era" for #personalcomputing
After the explosion of #smartphones , #surveillancecapitalism and tech oligopolies the trend has been dumbification and disenfranchisement.
But one *can* envision a different timeline
Over 30 laptops and 10 desktops coming this fall with "the most efficent platform ever built"
For those designing and writing #software who haven’t learned that processing time can be a scarcity. 🙁
You’ve never submitted pre-designed code with obscure languages, typed up on cards, passed the deck to the Ops centre and waited (usually hours, sometimes next day) for a result. This was the batch, mainframe era. You learned to get the software to work, then optimise, maybe. 🤣☺️
From idea to deploy did get faster, more convenient and cheaper; Now you’ve moved back to mainframes.
#PersonalComputing / #batch / #mainframe <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/02/github-copilot-users-threaten-exit-as-metered-billing-kicks-in/5249826>
“Laura Alice Bracken, a #Geelong-based artist, started building her own cyberdeck as an extension of her creative practice, in which she was experimenting with #MIDI controllers that take #biofrequencies from #plants and transform them into #soundwaves.
But Bracken, 39, wanted something she could take out into #nature and, after falling down a rabbit hole online, her mind started to widen to the world of #cyberdecks.
The device she is making – housed inside a vintage abalone shell – will also double as an e-reader.
“I just found out my #Kindle is about to be made redundant,” she says (Amazon recently announced they would no longer support #eReaders made before 2012).”
“It is a perfectly good Kindle ... so why is it suddenly going to be trash? It’s because they want to sell new ones.”
#PersonalComputing / #computers / #hardware / #DIY <https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-young-women-building-their-own-computers-as-a-middle-finger-to-big-tech-20260424-p5zqvv.html> / <https://archive.md/t0DR4>
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