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What I will say on the topic of tooling is that I learned to do woodworking, metalcraft, and a bunch of other artisan skills using tools that were over a century old, and they're still as usable today as they were 25 years ago when I was learning the difference between messing around to learn and crafting something carefully.

You can't say that for anything related to computers, so I'm not going to address that today.

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Tessalation

So, when I say fifty years isn't a long time for tools, I'm saying that everything since code was run on the first microprocessor barely counts as a tool in my book, they just aren't stable enough yet.

Which brings us to my main point.

Appliances, specifically appliance grade computing.

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A bit of history.

On September 5, 1977,
the Voyager 1 hardware
was yeeted towards interstellar space.

Four years later, in 1981, the backup S-band portion of the communications hardware was shut off.

In October of 2024, after a partial degradation of the primary X-band communications interface, the backup S-band communications automatically came back online due to the fault, after a period of 43 years offline.

THAT is appliance-grade engineering.

A bit of history.

On September 5, 1977,
the Voyager 1 hardware
was yeeted towards interstellar space.

Four years later, in 1981, the backup S-band portion of the communications hardware was shut off.

In October of 2024, after a partial degradation of the primary X-band communications interface, the backup S-band communications automatically came back online due to the fault, after a period of 43 years offline.

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