Let’s See What Dave Has To Say About That

It’s nice to think about for sure. Believe me, I have been. But maybe this world is what we make it. We’ll have to see.

I am just tired from everything and everyone and I don’t know what to do anymore but I wish I could dissapear from this place and none could find me start in a new place I don’t know to explain

A 1965 Ford Falcon taking cover in the rain.

Apparently in Japan they had access to this link cable that allowed the PSone to use a cell phone as a modem, turning the console into an E-Machine, doing basic E-Mail, web browsing, etc. A few games supported it as well. A lot of online sites call it the i-Mode adapter or say that i-mode is a PlayStation service, but i-Mode is just an ISP from Japan. Some sources mention that it was only compatible with the PSone and not the PlayStation, but I can’t find why that would be.

Edge Magazine UK August 2000 issue featuring Sony PSone w/ LCD screen peripheral 2000

I was at work and one of my coworkers (she’s in her late 30s) abruptly brought up a lady asking an AI questions like this on some vertical video platform. She thought it was enlightening and thought provoking.

It was literally just nonsense, the girl and the AI were just making stuff up together, each encouraging the other, compounding the stupidity. Exactly what you described here.

I was dumbfounded, I just nodded along to hit each dialogue option and go somewhere else. We’re not doing well..

What do you think would surprise a person from the 1950s most about modern computers?

How disposable they've become. We toss away computers like old socks.

How we got away from the model of timesharing for so long, only to go right back to cloud computing. People were so eager to personalize the experience, it's why things like the PDP-1 came into existance in the late 50s.

How much software went from this thing that was freely, openly shared as just a point of fact to a world where people pay for software regularly.

How much people trust a computer to think for them. A computer cannot think, it can only do math really fast, *you* have to think about how to make use of that platform to make your workload easier. People using computers in the 50s understood this implicitly, and now some people want shitty autocomplete to do the hard part for them. The human tasks that are worth doing, but that's a whole rant in itself.

How much computers just get powered off, or just run without doing anything, because of how plentiful and commonplace they are. In the 50s, no computer time was wasted, it was too expensive. If the machine was operational back then, it was busy.

Same idea.

1973 RCA XL-100 spotted (chassis GS-830).

I wish I knew people my age out here.

That’s not just any pinball machine. That’s a Williams 1992 “Fish Tales”. Completing the joke that they are fishing.