holy shit USB turned 30 years old earlier this year
in January
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@fluffy I'm in this toot and I don't like it.
@fluffydotorg i thought you were like 5 years older than me, you were definitely alive when peripherals were not usb yet
@fluffy I read this backwards and missed the not. I still don't like it.
they do not understand the paaaaaain
@fluffy@plush.city they don’t know what it was like to pull an RS-232c lead or a Centronics lead through a tangle of other cables fruitlessly until you’ve reached through and untangled it enough to drag it a bit further, at which the twiddly-sticky-out bits will catch on all the cables yet again, and so on
@u0421793 they won't understand assigning I/O ports and IRQs and sometimes DMA channels, using jumpers, trying to find the combination that lets you connect your mouse AND your printer AND your sound card all at once
there are software engineers who were not alive when peripherals weren't USB