Recently picket up this old Thinkpad T30 for 2 bucks at a local flea market. Its a bit scratched up and the battery is more or less dead but everything else is working fine. Its Pentium 4M, 1gb of ram and 40gb hdd might be a bit overkill for win2k but its really amazing. Running Firefox 13 and a webone proxy to deal with ssl issues.
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  • ComradeSharkfucker
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    2010 months ago

    Ill admit it is cool but as a zoomer i will never understand the millenial desire to make a computer look like this by choice

    • ɐɥOOP
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      3310 months ago

      Im a Zoomer myself and I love those old win95-2k aesthetics! You cant tell me that this doesn’t look amazing

    • _NoName_
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      410 months ago

      I think it deals with familiarity defining personal aesthetic? You grow up within a space, and the trends of that space become the norm, and within that norm there’s a sweet spot that’s ‘cool’.

      Every generation that grows up in a dramatically different aesthetic space thus ends up with completely different aesthetics from one another.

    • @triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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      110 months ago

      your life will improve if you stop sorting yourself and everyone else into arbitrary groups of named generations, that have more difference within them than between them…

      • ComradeSharkfucker
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        110 months ago

        Generations are useful in the case of aesthetics because each generation has a different source of nostalgia

        • @triplenadir@lemmygrad.ml
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          110 months ago

          so someone born in 1997 has a different source of nostalgia to someone born in 1996, but the same as someone born in 1998?