Sometimes it’s fun to just make stupid shit for no other reason than to entertain yourself or others. Do you get mad at a painter because their painting can’t do anything?
If you paint a painting, you refine a skill in the process. Also, you get a painting when you’re done.
When you mush together a bunch of obsolete junk, you get nothing when you’re done but a heapnof obsolete junk your wife will yell at you to get rid of.
Now, if the person who made this turns it into some sort of sculptural decoration or interactive art work, now we’re talking. Even if that was not the original goal, flipping it into something thought provoking now has value.
That would be the best ending to this story. Art has value.
Oh boy, wait until you see what else The Serial Port has done.
Their bowling alley PC was a particular delight. Not that it achieved anything, but it was still cool because they could.
No, it is a waste of time with no value.
Do meaningful things. Society suffers under the weight of pointless nonsense like this.
If you are intelligent enough to make old hardware do things it was never meant to, you are wasting your potential and time.
Use your brain to solve a problem, not make up a problem for which the solution is useless.
Sometimes it’s fun to just make stupid shit for no other reason than to entertain yourself or others. Do you get mad at a painter because their painting can’t do anything?
If you paint a painting, you refine a skill in the process. Also, you get a painting when you’re done.
When you mush together a bunch of obsolete junk, you get nothing when you’re done but a heapnof obsolete junk your wife will yell at you to get rid of.
Now, if the person who made this turns it into some sort of sculptural decoration or interactive art work, now we’re talking. Even if that was not the original goal, flipping it into something thought provoking now has value.
That would be the best ending to this story. Art has value.