That is already happening. I like to frequent Vintage Computer Festival and for the last few years a few of them have had MD-Con as part of a convention within a convention. A whole room dedicated to MiniDisc tech showing off laptops, desktops, camcorders, pro-hifi gear, etc. There is a collector that even brings a large portion of his collection which is all in blue including rare blue color minidiscs themselves from company promo's. One example is a promo MD from Boss Coffee in japan which looked fantastic.

There is even a revival in the software used to burn/format minidiscs since most of the original software is ancient now.

Its pretty fun to visit them as someone who used a minidisc player through highschool and college until I got the original Microsoft Zune. A lot of the people I met at the last two MD-Con's loved looking through all the models presented at the con to try and find the same device they back in the day.

https://www.mdcon.live/

This is why I would like to see regulation on disposable lithium powered devices. Some other countries are enforcing it finally with all the disposable vapes littering our environments. Easiest method is similar handling to lead acid batteries requiring you to return a battery to buy one, or pay a core charge. It could even encourage people to pick up vapes off the ground so they can go buy one without the charge.

If recycling is set up properly the core charge is going to be enormous and make me question if its worth turning in the old battery or repurposing it as home electricity storage.

I just upgraded my 2008 Thinkpad R61i to 8GB of DDR2 a few months ago while I was also upgrading to a core2duo.

DDR2 and DDR3 are still in active use by SBC manufacturers.

Unfortunately its not so cheap anymore as everyone ramped prices up of course.

Last year I could still get 32GB of DDR4 for under $60 from chinese brands.

I've gotten older games running just fine with Whisky/game porting toolkit. Sometimes you also need something to fix old DirectX issues like dgvoodoo2.

If you want to make it even easier you could try loading it via Heroic Launcher which supports game porting toolkit.

(Do note: whisky.app is out of development now that the Dev quit to do being pestered by the community so much)

For military equipment you usually need the original frame (or part of it with stamps) because it has serial numbers stamped on it for the DMV to go by when registering.

Our family had ford tractors, ford mowers, and ford trucks until enough pain points added up to cause a change. Now they haven't bought a ford in over 40 years.

This is honestly one of my biggest fears about the modern auto repair situation. Previously it was fairly common to eventually find service manuals for sale second hand after enough time had passed. Or someone would scan and dump them online. Then it turned into waiting for PDF's to leak from dealership CD's.

Now with having them locked down to dealership tablet pc's I worry they will never hit the public.

Except the fact that there is still tons of old un-archived software out there in the wild because we used floppies for decades.

One of the greatest things about the retro computing community is when they buy or find old software they tend to try to image it and put it up on archive.org.

So much software has already been lost to time unfortunately.

Maybe if you ignore the entirety of the retro gaming scene where people are using old engines and modified old engines because they bring along a lot of the feel and expected behavior.

The average modern Unreal and Unity game feels like shit, but some dev's can pull off making new engines behave like old ones we love. It requires a lot of work. Just look at New Bloods catalog of games that pulled it off. DUSK (unity), Amid Evil (UE4), Ultrakill (Unity). Each one of those games had a lot of passion behind them driving for gameplay perfection in the style of a retro game and/or engine.

Can't wait for more terrible UE5 games.

Why am I not surprised. GhostBSD seems to joyfully delve into the slop and attract the worst to FreeBSD.

By refusing to use it because the BSD's are my escape from vibe coded hell