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This is fantastic. To me, this is one of the greatest side-effects of agentic coding; adding new functionality to vintage, abandoned or obsolete hardware. It gi
by bensyverson 5mo ago
This is fantastic. To me, this is one of the greatest side-effects of agentic coding; adding new functionality to vintage, abandoned or obsolete hardware. It gives me hope for a solarpunk future where e-waste gets a more functional second life.
- manytimesaway 5mo agoSo, making obsolete hardware relevant by using the technology that's accelerating their "irrelevanceness" ?
- prokopton 5mo agoCan hardware became more obsolete?
- addaon 5mo agoYes. Discrete 74 series TTL logic ICs were quite obsolete; CMOS versions replaced them. But now with new generations that are not level-compatible with the TTL versions, the TTL versions are even more obsolete.
- hyperhello 5mo agoTo me it proves that a technology can be understood and implemented by one person.
- bensyverson 5mo agoLife isn't black & white
- yjftsjthsd-h 5mo agoHow is AI making old hardware obsolete faster?
- pqtyw 5mo agoIf anything it's the opposite (by making new hardware unaffordable)
- manytimesaway 5mo agoPrices for retro hardware are going up due to hoarders & sometimes social effect, too.
- pndy 5mo agoYou are aware that there's a huge retrocomputing community around the world that with hearts and passion preserves old machines and software?
- manytimesaway 5mo agoBeing part of it myself, I think I've heard of it. But I fail to understand how using the very thing that's shortening hardware life nowadays is "passionate". Different values I presume.
- chongli 5mo agoThere's no acceleration here. Vintage Macs are 100% obsolete. They can't get any more obsolete than that. They can, however, become MORE relevant for hobbyists through the development of new software for them. What could be better than that?
- bbbbbbbbbbbvyt 5mo ago[dead]