Dig that, feel like they were super rare- I vaguely remember hearing these weren’t too successful- I’ve only ever seen one IRL once, at the front desk for an art gallery, though I hazard because even a less common machine up here in Canada
that's one of my favorite things about the switch, somewhere in the joycons there's gotta be a eeprom that stores the color so it knows what to show on the screen. completely unnecessary but totally cool
They still do, which I love. All the little bluetooth icons etc are the correct colour of the thing you've connected to your mac. Cute as both of mine are the black ones released for the short-lived iMac Pro.
If anyone had told us that it would be a non-stop barrage of everyone else's thoughts and feelings drowning out our ability to form a complete and whole thought, we might've thought twice.
"If you're not ready for the internet, turn to p25. If you feel you are ready for internet, turn to p176. if you want to hear more about the internet, turn to p52."
- Choose Your Own Internet Adventure, by Tim Berners Lee, Gollancz Books, 1987
Not me. My first full time permanent job out of college was a computer operations role keeping the Arpanet going. There was no way I was passing that up. OTOH, no one working on the Arpanet had any idea what the Internet would be like decades later.
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we could have changed our fate
For a while in the 90s I had one of those wacky clamshell Newtons on loan from a friend.
Now more than ever
But they lured us in with cats and cheeseburgers.
"If you're not ready for the internet, turn to p25. If you feel you are ready for internet, turn to p176. if you want to hear more about the internet, turn to p52."
- Choose Your Own Internet Adventure, by Tim Berners Lee, Gollancz Books, 1987
Coming down from the trees
Ready for the internet
Humanity has a terrible record on making the right choices
Wish they'd make another laptop as funky as those
*sigh*
Hoo lawdy, little did we know.