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With thanks to a GemLog I meant to write down somewhere :( ... there was a thoughtful post about minimizing one's digital/network footpring. Back there in GemTime.
And a few days ago an acquaintance in TwitterSpace pointed at a story about someone funning FORTRAN on the IBM Mainframe OS of the 1980s ('70s?) ported to a smartphone. I believe it. I brought up a few of the earliest of those machine inside IBM back in the day (1967-9). By today's standards they were simply pitiful.
That said, it was that or paper and mechanical devices. The ATM system was/is based on that. And all of that points to a question of whether we use excessively complex and "inefficient" technology for simple everyday STUFF.
Written on a Raspberry Pi 400 with a perfectly good MacBook Air running next to it. Just sayin'
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Follow-up some time later :(
mnmlst.com and zenhabits.com went quiet nearly ten years ago. His "Now" page was updated a few months ago ... interesting.