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Can’t grandma still use the old computer while we all use our new computers with new software that’s enriching our lives? I have countless instruments at my dis

• chongli 4y ago
  Sure, grandma can still use the old computer. That's not the point. I see people constantly make this conflation here on HN. It's the idea that you can't have new technology while keeping the benefits of old. It's rubbish! What made the Classic MacOS great and easy to use were its solid, fundamental principles. We have abandoned those principles for convenience's sake.
• bacchusracine 4y ago
  >Can’t grandma still use the old computer while we all use our new computers with new software that’s enriching our lives? Sure! And so can Uncle Joe and Aunt Mable! But why should they have to? We used to have this thing called 'sane defaults' and configuration options, which allowed people to set things to their preferred level. Why is it now suddenly that everything is hardcoded to behave one way? Nothing is allowed to be configurable? So much of this is about configurations and not about the age of the software being used.
  • flenserboy 4y ago
    Consider how little testing most software apparently has before release. If that's not going to happen, why would they put the effort in to making it configurable?
• selfhoster11 4y ago
  No, she can't. For the simple reason that it'll risk getting hacked the moment it's connected to the Internet.