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@deprogrammaticaipsum @khinsen

I think the essence is retro machines are steeped with agency.

You feel almost entirely in control of a small, mailable, magically powerful world, with nearly no external obligations. Even the physical “pull it apart and fix it” level.

Modern machines don’t, and in particular, **neither do modern business models**.

I’d like modern SSD, Ram, Network, CPU and GPU, Battery and display. And modern computer science and language theory. But I also want that agency back.

I think we can have both.