> They're just tools. Honestly when I was younger computers were just a lot more fun. You want to do a LAN party? Be prepared for an hour of diagnosing netwo

> They're just tools. Honestly when I was younger computers were just a lot more fun. You want to do a LAN party? Be prepared for an hour of diagnosing network problems -- and we liked that! Take that one example and multiply it by everything. Tweaking and customizing and finding random cool software was all part of the experience. Same with smartphones before the iPhone. These days perhaps products all just too good and too finished. They are just tools now -- they have less intrinsic fun hacker value on their own. I have gone a little Retro -- picking up old devices and not using them for anything useful.