badmojo wrote on 2025-01-17, 02:21:

My iPhone started to confuse and annoy me, I fall asleep on the couch, I forget just about everything, interest in new tech d […]
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My iPhone started to confuse and annoy me,
I fall asleep on the couch,
I forget just about everything,
interest in new tech dropped right off,
note taking has skyrocketed,
My enthusiasm is dropping off while the world seems to be getting more complicated.

I check all those boxes. Is it time to start planning our estate and looking for red tag deals on coffins?

I look in the mirror, and see wrinkles and grey in my beard.

I remember messing with dip-switches on XTs, incompatibility issues with old ISA cards on 286s, having to deal with .ADF diskettes for IBM's PS2 line, manually optimizing DOS memory on 386s and 486s, getting NDIS2 drivers running under DOS, early TX chipset pentium MMX boards spontaneously exploding, the shitshows that were windows ME, Vista, and windows 8, and so much more.

I remember when greybeards used to talk about issues with 8bit micros, and wonder, when it was exactly, that I became one myself.

feipoa wrote on 2025-01-17, 10:50:

I check all those boxes. Is it time to start planning our estate and looking for red tag deals on coffins?

😂 I hope not. I've loved the whole house renovation / raising children thing but my reward for all the hard work was supposed to be full and enjoyable retirement years - no-one told me there'd be this large expanse of crap between kids and retirement. Aging parents, 'career' turning into an agonising grind, mortgage still to pay off, etc. I'm holding out for the fun stuff before I start coffin shopping!

badmojo wrote on 2025-01-17, 12:01:

feipoa wrote on 2025-01-17, 10:50:

I check all those boxes. Is it time to start planning our estate and looking for red tag deals on coffins?

😂 I hope not. I've loved the whole house renovation / raising children thing but my reward for all the hard work was supposed to be full and enjoyable retirement years - no-one told me there'd be this large expanse of crap between kids and retirement. Aging parents, 'career' turning into an agonising grind, mortgage still to pay off, etc. I'm holding out for the fun stuff before I start coffin shopping!

That all sounds about right. Unfortunately, life doesn't come with an instruction manual, but if it did, I'd probably opt out.

If you have kids, you might want to consider setting up a living trust to avoid things like probate, the will as a public record, high taxes, guardianships, etc.

I can't remember what games I have tried on each system I build, and what the experience was like (did it work, any glitches, or performance problems etc). So I keep a games tried.txt file on the desktop of each machine where I can make a note of this.

badmojo wrote on 2025-01-17, 12:01:

feipoa wrote on 2025-01-17, 10:50:

I check all those boxes. Is it time to start planning our estate and looking for red tag deals on coffins?

😂 I hope not. I've loved the whole house renovation / raising children thing but my reward for all the hard work was supposed to be full and enjoyable retirement years - no-one told me there'd be this large expanse of crap between kids and retirement. Aging parents, 'career' turning into an agonising grind, mortgage still to pay off, etc. I'm holding out for the fun stuff before I start coffin shopping!

What's funny about all of that is I haven't gone that far yet, but the letters "AMD" have a dual meaning to me these days. For the longest time it always meant "Advanced Micro Devices", now, it also means "Advance Medical Directive". 😜

Once I started working in healthcare, having one of these on file became very apparent.

RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-01-17, 14:54:

I can't remember what games I have tried on each system I build, and what the experience was like (did it work, any glitches, or performance problems etc). So I keep a games tried.txt file on the desktop of each machine where I can make a note of this.

This literally just happened to me last night! I sat down and replayed Contra Rebirth all the way through, easy enough, it's a short game. Got to the end and noticed there were save states...loaded up the last one and it was on the last level. Confused, I went I looked at the file dates and noticed they were all created back in February of 2023. Guess that explains why it felt so easy and I seemed to know parts of it. haha

RetroPCCupboard wrote on 2025-01-17, 14:54:

I can't remember what games I have tried on each system I build, and what the experience was like (did it work, any glitches, or performance problems etc). So I keep a games tried.txt file on the desktop of each machine where I can make a note of this.

StriderTR wrote on 2025-01-17, 17:57:

This literally just happened to me last night! I sat down and replayed Contra Rebirth all the way through, easy enough, it's a short game. Got to the end and noticed there were save states...loaded up the last one and it was on the last level. Confused, I went I looked at the file dates and noticed they were all created back in February of 2023. Guess that explains why it felt so easy and I seemed to know parts of it. haha

Oh boy... I do that with troubleshooting PC problems, only I think I'm even worse off in that regard.

I will spend hours diagnosing some stupid problem either on my own computer, a retro system or a customer's\relative's computer, and then I stumble upon this super helpful thread where someone explains how they struggled with it for days and eventually fixed it...

... then I realize the super helpful person was ME. It was MY thread from 5-10 years ago.

The worst is when it was only 1-2 years ago and I've already totally forgotten about it because it never came up again. That makes me feel quite worried about my future prospects... 🤣

(Don't worry, this is pretty rare... but it has happened more than once, which is plenty.)

Even worse than stumbling on your old threads from a bazillion years ago ... I installed an old Slackware release a few months ago and was shocked when I saw my own Usenet post quoted in the Fortunes database at login ... I had no idea that had been there for the last 20 years or so!

Vogons - Very old guys on newish society? 😂🥲

Very old guys offer newbies support

😉

Very old guys, only now senile...

wierd_w wrote on 2025-01-18, 08:35:

Very old guys offer newbies support

That sounds about right.

I vote for changing the official forum abbreviation to this.

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-01-18, 09:05:

Very old guys, only now senile...

LISTEN HERE! I can remember when... wait... what were we talking about again?

Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2025-01-18, 09:21:

wierd_w wrote on 2025-01-18, 08:35:

Very old guys offer newbies support

That sounds about right.

I vote for changing the official forum abbreviation to this.

I second that vote. 😀

wierd_w wrote on 2025-01-18, 09:50:

megatron-uk wrote on 2025-01-18, 09:05:

Very old guys, only now senile...

LISTEN HERE! I can remember when... wait... what were we talking about again?

Type louder, I can't hear you! 😜

Memory loss does have benefits. You can enjoy old games you played years ago as if they were new! You recall just enough to remember liking the game, but forget enough to make it fun and fresh again.

StriderTR wrote on 2025-01-18, 21:21:

Memory loss does have benefits. You can enjoy old games you played years ago as if they were new!

I'm not much of a gamer, but I can watch the same TV series or movie a couple of times a year and still not know what's going on. Stops me having to keep buying new DVDs and BluRays 😀

From Christmas...

Do I like these wire strippers so much I wanted 2 pair?

Nope...

Forgot I picked up a pair already, asked my wife for a pair for Christmas..... So, now I have two. Guess I'm practicing my government spending....Yeah...let's go with that.

"First Rule in government spending... Why have one when you can have two at twice the price!" -S.R. Hadden .. sort of. 😜

At least their good wire strippers. 😀