I was using Adobe Photoshop 6.0 (September 2000, and until Windows 21H2 fully broke support for it, even in compatibility mode, and Forced me to pirate and learn a new version
like Just two years ago, I used Macromedia Flash 5 (Released in 2000, and to create an animation because I have no idea how to use literally any sort of modern animation software
For the past week, instead of connecting my phone via USB and dealing with the painfully slow thumbnail generation.... set up an FTP server on the phone and use my original copy of CuteFTP 4.2 -- also from 2000 coincidentally enough -- to speed up my workflow
In today's hectic Web 3.0 world of emojified URLs and Prime 2-day shipping, what good-old-boy software are you still using because it just does the thing you need it to do without any unnecessary overhead
guiz im talking like actually using the old old version of the software, not its a modern app inspired by ClarisWorks but supports hyperthreading and x64 *sips tea*
I'm also angrily learning that the shit that appears on your actual desktop are in (username)\OneDrive\Desktop and not (username)\Desktop
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Im not sure if work counts but I'm currently using software that's older me in prod.
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Yep. I remember reading a manual entry for some shit; warning that it used the new mid-90's license file format instead of the old 80's one.
Horrible fricking software BTW. Made me practically rip my hair out
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i was trying to set up OctoPrint on debian, and Im new to lunix so it was so fricking bizzare trying to figure out command-line text editors in current year
Like yeah, I get that nano and vi are legacy programs that haven't changed since the 70s when a computer may not have had a keyboard, but you can make it a little more user-friendly on the assumption someone running Debian 10 is doing so on something newer than an Altair 8800. Like change 'Write buffer?' to the modern "Save file?' and actually use "Alt" instead of having ^ represent the alt button.
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They were written in a time where people expected to have to read documentation to know how to use a tool. That strategy still works btw
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yeah lemme like just figure out how to exit nano so i can look up the man pages on it to figure out what ^x represents (which you need to know in order to exit nano)
omg! instead of them like just saying alt-x
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^X is Ctrl-X, and ^ represents the Ctrl key in general. Alt-X would be M-X (for "meta", which is what it was called on very old keyboards).
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ok lunix apologist. it's not the 70s anymore, Ctrl is represented by "Ctrl". The software in current_year distros can be updated to replace terminology last used when AIDS was called GRIDS
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Yeah apparently the software was considered legacy in 2011...but it's still here
Most of the old guard have beat it into submission but it's old enough there's no good way to automate it (and it's going away...eventually...at some point) so that's where i come in
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