Date: 2025-06-01

Duck tape empire

This is about the hell. Junkyard where every stupid idea and
randomness glued together got its name and standard.

As usually this is not technical review. This is pure raw and ultimate
objective truth. God said, I wrote. Who really cares if some port was
called PS/2, SCSI, VGA, serial or parallel. All were shit.

Little note: God said, this should be accessible over Saint Firefox,
Fossil Gopher and God's favorite channel NEX. So you get your freedom
as he promised.

Disclaimer: Quality of this article is not high. You read it once if
you must and never return. I can't even correct typos as I don't feel
to read it again. But, let's be honest, you, as a person, haven't
muddied much water either. So this may be adequate for you right now.
If you improve a bit I can give you some better icecream. For now,
let's appreciate what we have. We all deserve it.

Let's jump into trashfield. Let's kill the myth. Old computer hardware
and software weren't better. They were bad, they were just first. In
every way. Underpowered, overcomplicated, inconsistent, fragile.
Designed by accident, not intention. We called it computing. It was
mostly survival. Constant fight just to keep the system alive.

All those ports from the past ye? Better not even name them. Plugging
things in was a gamble. Getting them to work was an exercise in ritual
and luck. Each a proprietary handshake with barely documented quirks
and zero interoperability. The time when opening a text file could be
a crash risk.

Yet, we never got rid of it. We built on top of it. Layers upon layers
of abstraction, compatibility, and glue. Legacy code wrapped in
wrappers, then emulated, then virtualized. X86, BIOS/UEFI, FAT32,
QWERTY layout. Hacks, workarounds so some trash from 1970
works. Here we are in 2025 still carry it. Even worse, we built
everything on top of it. We built world of skyscrapers on random shit
from era of dinosaurs.

We need to stop romanticizing the past. The truth is, it was garbage
then and it's radioactive now.

Terminal, a joke that never ended. It was shit even in 1980. Like most
hardware and software. Current state? Worse. Technical debt with UI.
Remember that time, that whatever "plug and play" you pluged in
computer never worked before you download some driver from random
website? You got official installer and it just did not run or did
nothing at all. Is it different now? Yes! Everything is hidden under
layers. All shitware is there already, saved deep at very bottom,
encrypted, covered so you never really see how bad it is. Modern
operating system? It's just new skin.

We don't rebuild, we decorate ruins. Instead of replacing we polish
it. Modern tech is not clean. It's not efficient. It's not better.
It's bigger, slower, more complex, because it's just the old junk,
repackaged and made worse.

Solution? Available only over NEX. Premium content.

The system is broken because we never had the guts to kill it.
Minimalism is the knife. Use it.