• @towerful@programming.dev
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    511 month ago

    It’s like “I have a windows computer, I install software on it and use the software. Why would I need more than 1?” Turns into “ooohhh, computers are great. All the things I can run and host. Software isn’t just a gui”.

    It’s like learning to love computers again

          • melroy
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            31 month ago

            Curses? What’s is curses? /s

            I just use ascii.

              • melroy
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                41 month ago

                Punch cards? What are that? /me grapping my abacus to add up 2 numbers.

                • @Jankatarch@lemmy.world
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                  41 month ago

                  Abacus? What is that?

                  /me grabbing my dedicated pile of stones so I can throw one into ground for each individual sheep I see to make sure I didn’t lose any as counting wasn’t invented yet

                  • melroy
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                    31 month ago

                    Dedicated pile of stones? Why is that?

                    /me carved tally marks on a cave wall. And slashing tallies on bones. I will call it tally sticks!

      • @ulterno@programming.dev
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        11 month ago

        It’s the thing you run when your Parallel Processing Card is not doing anything and you go - “might as well”