I’ve been using computers for a long time — sat down at my first one in late 1979 or early 1980.

So I used them when they were crappy, slow, balky and terrible. Funny to see them and related return again to being crappy, slow, balky and terrible. Not, as in the past, because there limited resources but because surveillance capitalism and user-hostility has ruined it all.

We had about a decade or so of really good years in there, though.

What’s puzzling about so many sites “optimized” for smartphones is that they do not work correctly on smartphones.

My hypothesis is that this is due to unskilled developers using frameworks that are terribly slow and not knowing how to do any better. Many sites today, whether viewed on a smartphone or a real computer, are slower than they were on dial-up 25 years ago.

For a future house, I need to research what kind of plants are best at removing CO2 combined with hardiness and light requirements.

It seems that even moderate levels of CO2 reduce cognitive performance, and CO2 scrubbers just aren’t really something commercially available. I could build one as it doesn’t require much actual tech or knowledge, but plants are much nicer and don’t break in the same way that tech does, and are also cheaper.