🍎 ⤑ Mac: oh Mac, o Mac, oh Ma-a-acc..
Ohh my, oh my Macintosh.. 😔
Taught my impressionable young self so many an information-technological thing,
and kept it from learning so many such a thing, too. For there was no, say,
MS BASIC or TURBO PASCAL here, so the young self found itself baffled in
incomprehension its parents were unable, and uninterested, to clear up. This
incomprehensible abyss showing itself as well when visiting friends or family
with games on MS-DOS, all so sadly
otherwordly Microsofty incompatible.
Anyway, such. a. cool. thing anyway. But then where did we it go wrong? And
wrong, and wrong again.
“Quo vadis”.. So.. 🤔 Ad quem? ..ivisti. Quo.. abiisti? 😶 Romance language verb tenses be gone – time waits for no one.
To my kiddy self, the Macintosh Classic II pictured above was magic, even with its monochrome screen. [oh such a footnote this could be, 'cause color kid self enchanted by a colour screen not long after] A pinnacle of something that was, and was to come, yet turned out never to come? Never came to be! And then, Steve Jobs? And then‽ 🌈 OS X. But then iPod, and iPhone – the Apple never the same ol' Macintosh again. Intel, ARM, System Settings, and wallpapers.
🤖 DAS ENSHITTIFIKAZIONSZEITALTER! by then long underway. And yet another
blogpost extremely TBC, too bad, for shame.
so let's continue, this 6/9/25 15:42
Not just coincidentally an
oh-so-topically relevant
Reddit link to process, but an entire folder of screenshots of Madness,
carefully casually collected over time, then zipped and
scp'd to the mothership,
since I'm pretty confident it contains several screenshots adequately
highlighting the Second Downfall of the Apple from several angles.
Will take a lot of f* time to sift through. 😞 For now it looks like this.. 🙌
total 113M -rw-r--r-- 1 frits frits 1.6K Sep 6 16:24 contents.lr -rw-r--r-- 1 frits frits 98K Aug 6 10:16 mac.II.jpg -rw-r--r-- 1 frits frits 112M Sep 6 15:37 MKSCRTFFS.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 frits frits 1.4M Sep 6 15:38 Screenshot 2025-09-06 at 15.38.02.png
..but right now this dungeon of a soul needs cleaning. 😒