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Re:Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic s... by xanderlewis on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @10:30AM (#42307188)
It’s not about being ‘better’. Older tech is just more fun! There are more moving parts, more differences between models, more to enjoy repairing, maintaining, hacking, comprehending! Modern tech is now so mature that it’s obfuscated to the point of being magic.

I don’t think it has much to do with ‘ethics’ at all — at least not for me.

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Re:Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic s... by galleywest200 on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:49AM (#42308238)
It is also reasonable for one human being to fully understand a piece of the "older tech". Modern stuff is often just a black box, even to the people designing parts of it because they only work on a single part.
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Re:Vintage digicams aren't just a fad. They're an artistic s... by mixmastamyk on Tuesday December 03, 2024 @11:41AM (#42308138)
Sometimes missing features are a feature. For example, older stuff comes without surveillance capitalism built in.
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