Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement

• BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  While putting in a new generator is absolutely a better idea, that means it’s not the original car. Plenty of classic car (and computing and video game and music and any hobby) enthusiasts run original hardware on purpose. Where’s the fun in building an Apple IIe if you use a flash drive instead of the hard drive? Where’s the soul in listening to The Four Tops on a digital recording instead of the vinyl master? Why play Sega on a flash cart instead of the original cartridges? Why drive a classic Civic if you’re trying to drop a K20 in there?

  New stuff is objectively better. A 4Cyl Mustang makes more power these days than a V8 from the 90s, more so for older models. You have to be a little irrational to put that amount of time into running something just because it’s older.

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  • sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Where’s the fun in building an Apple IIe if you use a flash drive instead of the hard drive?

    Not to be that guy, but the Apple IIe didn’t have a hard drive. External tape or floppy were your only storage choices. The real cool kids had two floppy drives, so you could pirate games directly disk-to-disk.

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    • BigPotato@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No, be that guy, correct incorrect information. Thank you.

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    • sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      so you could pirate games

      What‽‽ I never used my dual drives for that.

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  • sxan@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think you misread their comment; they weren’t saying people they know are putting on new parts in old cars, they were saying people they know are maliciously putting leaded gas into new engines, presumably to “stick it to the libruls”.

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