I’ve shown my systems to many of my friends and they are by far more interested in what the X23 can do. I’ve even succeeded in convincing a few around me to embrace the command line and to try to do without the mouse.

I don’t think going back to old technology is a “giant joke” for the young generation. It is just unfamiliar territory that we’ve never experienced before. (my first computer came with Windows XP. Console? Framebuffer?) It’s not that we think going back to old technology is a joke, we simply didn’t know we can watch movies without X.

Once we get our feet wet, and have enough knowledge to get ourselves around, “old technology” doesn’t seem so old anymore. In fact, they are newer to us than Windows XP!

Don’t worry about the old-person-whining. You are not alone on that …erm… fight.

The good work you are currently doing, sharing such an amount of useful information nowadays, is helping me develop a Project for a non-profit, with just a bunch of rusty computers, so, please, keep doing what you are good at!

I totally agree your ideas and would like to remind you and the other people reading this blog, that, although we, “first-world-people”, already forgot that computers are meant to be useful, there is still a 90% of people in this planet who think a 15-year-old computer is high-tech. Try to convince them about iPad-stuff, and you’ll see what happens…

…and yes, our global garbage footprint ends up on their lands, too.

Once again, thanks for the good work.

I only recently started to agree with your philosophy towards electronics. It upsets me that before I did, I had already built a powerful desktop and bought a pretty powerful laptop. But that is where it ends. Thank you for helping me to achieve that.