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Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) by ElevenLathe on Monday December 02, 2024 @04:50PM (#42300793)
Maybe I've misunderstood pvg upthread but I assumed "'homebrew' has come to connote scrappy and hip" was about IT/tech because it doesn't have that connotation in the actual context of beer, at least to my knowledge.
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Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) by pvg on Monday December 02, 2024 @05:32PM (#42301085)
No, you had it right - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_Computer_Club which, as you say, is probably a borrowing from older tech nerd communities.
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Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) by jujube3 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @03:34PM (#42311028)
The "homebrew computer club" made their own computers. It wasn't about being scrappy or hip, but just a cooler way of saying "homemade"
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Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) by pvg on Wednesday December 04, 2024 @04:04PM (#42322041)
You should probably check out the denotation of 'connotation'
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Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) by jujube3 on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @02:07PM (#42380203)
You should probably check out "being a pedantic douche" -- oh wait, you already did.
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Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) by ElevenLathe on Friday December 06, 2024 @10:15AM (#42340534)
So it's about being cool but not about being hip? What distinction are you trying to make?
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