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Interesting — why does this post get penalized from any top HN page even after 40+ points in two hours?
No one knows. Don’t worry about it. Just because it resolves to a number doesn’t make it matter.
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What sorts of things do you do with a NanoKVM?
Mine hasn't actually arrived yet! I'm still waiting for it in the mail. I don't think I'll tweak that much, all I really want to do is flash the published open source firmware, attach it to my tailnet and use it to control a little server I keep in the crawl space under the house (because crawling under there whenever it needs a reboot + entering disk encryption keys is distinctly unpleasant).
I have one on a server. The server itself is accessible (it's in the rack cabinet I have in the office) but sticking a display on it is fiddly on a good day, so it's been a major QoL improvement!
You will never have a system as productive yet user friendly for building programs ever again.
That left "desktop" computing as no longer where the action was, but just a legacy platform for people doing their day jobs, and most things being dumbed down into single-purpose apps that cannot be modified, customized, combined, or anything fun/interesting/not intended by the vendor.
When you turn 30
I go to events like vintage computer festivals, and old folks are having a party with computers.
I look at younger people with computers, and for the most part they are just commodity tools for hosting apps and watching media. Even younger people describing what they are doing for fun with computers are building "home labs" of application hosting systems.
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agreed, I think much of the appeal for me is the physical element of wiring things up and seeing it do something more than changing a few pixels on my screen. Soldering is very relaxing as well.
How you know me so well. I also like how cheap all of the parts and pieces are. It's like the next step after Legos. Although, they have way more interesting Legos today than what I had as a kid. I've bought components with an a specific project in mind, but once it's built I find myself taking them apart and making a new something with it combined with other parts I have lying around. Things are cheap enough that I…
I can learn “ten things a computer can do” from twelve minutes on TicTube. But non-trivial things I am motivated to do play out over years. Also, I no longer fret missing out…fomo is a young person’s malady.
Shocker, you're 25 years older and feel nostalgia for the way things were when you were young.
> I won't vibe-code it, what's the fun in that?
I mean, find out what the fun is in that? Or don't and cry on HN? Your choice.
> I don't care for coding new stuff.
OK, don't code new stuff then.
Take the opposite view that computers are more fun than ever and see if you can understand that perspective? What would someone who believes that be doing on their computer? Why would that be fun for them?
If you're not willing to consider that seriously then yeah you're probably just going to get sadder and sadder.
