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I guess @rasteri and other #PC104 users can now get the beloved #ISA-#USB #Flashdrive card with native PC104 pinout to stack on boards.

  • Not that this is much of an engineering feat, as PC/104 is just a different form factor of ISA, but still nifty for #legacy / #industrial setups that may want to have more flexibility re: data storage.

I wounder if anyone got those ISA-USB controllers to work on #Linux distros tho.

  • Obviously they're slow (according to @TechTangents in the realm of a 1x CD-ROM drive) and not bootable, but still useful for systems without native USB ports.

I sadly don't have any system with ISA or PC/104 at hand (gotta build one i.e. #tiny486) so I can't test it anyway, but maybe a future revision of the #WeeCee may benefit from such an option (which I think also has the potential to be a good "bridge machine" for people dealing with legacy / industrial systems...

#PetPeeve: I hate that "Music" is one of the standard home folders on desktop computers. I love music, but I want it to be "Audio" -- not all audio is music (plus "audio" pairs better with "video"). When was this default established, in #MacOS X 10.0, #WinNT, earlier? (I think NextStep or BeOS might have had a "Sounds" folder.) Now, seemingly every #desktop uses this default: #Windows, #Mac, #FreeDesktop environments (#GNOME, #KDE), are there any exceptions? Like the #DesktopMetaphor itself, we're stuck with it, even though it chafes.

#GUI #UserInterface #Legacy #OldManYellsAtCloud
#UnreasonableExpectations

Y con respecto a mi última publicación sobre las actualizaciones innecesarias, junto con la falopa que escribí sobre #Legacypunk, estoy llevando adelante un experimento en donde estoy poniendo un poco en práctica eso:

Tengo una compu vieja pero potente para la época, una laptop con un i7 de primera generación con la memoria maxeada a 16gb.
Le instalé Slackware, que es una distro que saca una actualización cada un millón de años, y me propuse usarla como una especie de "arca" o "cápsula del tiempo".

La idea es preparar esa compu como si me tuviera que ir a vivir a un bunker sin Internet:
¿Qué software me llevo instalado?
¿Para qué la quiero/puedo usar?
¿Qué material guardo para poder consultar/leer/estudiar?

Ya voy a escribir algo en mi blog al respecto, explicando un poco mejor cuál es la idea y cómo viene siendo mi experiencia, así que atentxs (?)

Never touch a running system: Und wieder einmal finden wir ein prominentes #Legacy System vor - diesmal ist es die #US-#Luftverkehrskontrolle, die seit fast drei Jahrzehnten auf #Windows 95 und Disketten läuft.

So oder so steht man nun mittlerweile aber vor der Herausforderung, dass für die Computersysteme aus 1995 so langsam keine Ersatzteile mehr zur Verfügung stehen. Daher wird die Aktualisierung der Systeme innerhalb von 4 Jahren zurzeit von der #FAA ausgeschrieben:

tomshardware.com/pc-components

Tom's Hardware · FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems - Windows 95 also being phased outBy Jowi Morales

Never touch a running system: Das Land #Berlin tut sich zunehmend schwer mit dem Ende von #Windows 10 am 14. Oktober 2025. Denn von 96.613 Windows PCs erhielten bisher nur 11.744 Geräte das erforderliche Update.

Und Sorge bereitet der Berliner Verwaltung nun insbesondere auch der Umgang mit teils jahrzehntealter #Legacy Software, die auf den Altgeräten zurzeit noch läuft.

Damit läuft aktuell alles auf einen erweiterten #Supportvertrag mit sechsstelligen Summen hinaus:

golem.de/news/ernste-it-krise-

Golem.de · Ernste IT-Krise: Berlin droht massive Windows-Sicherheitslücke - Golem.deBy Michael Linden

Father's Day has me thinking about those 1950s afternoons when my father walked me to Yankee Stadium and taught me that passion doesn't require conforming to expectations. While other fathers taught sons to slide into home plate, mine taught me to appreciate the art of base stealing. We created our own legend in the shadow of the House that Ruth Built.
#FathersDay #Baseball #Family #Yankees #1950s #Bronx #FatherDaughter #Sports #Memories #Legacy
medium.com/beyond-the-scoreboa

Black and white photo of crowded Yankee Stadium with players on the field
Beyond the Scoreboard · Creating Our Own Legend - Beyond the Scoreboard - MediumBy Angie Mangino

"Slow innovation, timid ideas, process over imagination, small-minded thinking, diminished ambition: these are the signs of an abandoned future."- Futurist Jim Carroll

So Apple had their big developer conference the other day. This is the event where they lay out their plans for the coming year and the future about software, hardware, and new lines of business.

And it seems it was an entirely ho-hum affair - essentially consisting of a new software design (that many are panning), scaling back their AI efforts, and introducing a few new features here and there, This is from the company that reinvented the phone, music, computer and other industries with bold visions, a fundamentally new technology that reimagined entire industries.

Apple finds itself trapped in what I call the "innovation plateau paradox" – having achieved such extraordinary success with revolutionary products like the iPhone and iPad that subsequent releases inevitably feel incremental by comparison.

Way back in 2014, I wrote a document - 25 Trends for 2025.

What was trend **#24** for 2025 on the list? I suggested this:

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Apple is delisted

Once one of the world’s most innovative, cash-rich, highly valued company, Apple enters a new phase in 2025 when it is delisted from most global stock markets.

Why?

Most industry leaders never survive; there is always someone with a better idea.

It’s the age-old rule of business: incumbency is not a guarantee!

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Tongue in cheek, my main point was that eventually, unless they keep relentlessly focused on creative innovation, every company eventually fumbles, makes mistakes, loses its mojo, and starts to fall behind. (Check out trend **#25** on my list from 2014 - it's kind of fun! And I did a full analysis of my prediction from 2014 in a post last December.)

That's where some people are pointing out how Apple seems to be drowning. Sure, it's had stunning innovation in the last few years, particularly with its staggeringly fast and extremely powerful new Mx-computer chips. But the rest? It's stumbled badly on AI, abandoned a long-running effort to get into the car industry, and failed with the mass consumer market launch of its VisionPro headset.

The real challenge isn't just about creating the "next big thing," but about maintaining innovative momentum when you've already transformed entire industries.

When it's one big announcement is something like "liquid glass," you have to wonder.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is working hard at working to make trend **#25** on his original 25 Trends for 2025 list (that he wrote in 2014) come true.

**#Innovation** **#Apple** **#Future** **#Technology** **#Stagnation** **#Disruption** **#Reinvention** **#Competition** **#Legacy** **#Evolution**

Original post: jimcarroll.com/2025/06/decodin