🎶 I don't like computer / any more
I used to like computer / like it was before 🎶

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V6_byL8G_Z4

My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

This is the Graphics Gremlin, an FPGA-powered retro video card by the talented @tubetime whom I must thank profusely for sending along.

I love all the little messages on the silkscreen.

Well, this wasn't confusing or anything.

On the left, your standard 74LS86 quad XOR gate.

On the right, the MM74C86 quad XOR gate.

They just do this kind of shit to keep you on your toes.

#retrocomputing #electronics