@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk in the 60s (which is when conscious life began) there were already chains of shops, for example, a lot of towns had a Dewhursts butcher, or a Boots chemist, etc. In about the 70s and 80s the idea of an even bigger entity than a supermarket took hold and things like B&Q appeared but in a ‘retail park’ sort of area, where people had to actually travel to rather than walk to, and this sort of thing increased and sucked out the facility of supplying the same. Imagine if B&Q were banned from being so big, and were forced to be ‘on the high street’. It’d put the hardware shop back on the high street, so you could go and get your paint mixed just like in the opening scene of Saturday Night Fever, when Tony Manero’s boss Fusco tells him “No, Tony! You can't fuck the future. The future fucks you. It catches up with you and it fucks you if you ain't planned for it!”. That sort of hardware shop is almost extinct now.
One of the anachronistic almost laughing stock scenarios was the clinging on by fingernails of Maplin, who supplied fairly good stuff eventually mixed in with a sea of toys, but seemed to completely deny the possibility that people are ordering electronic parts from China and waiting the time it took for an order to turn up. Back in the days of ‘the high street’, this was not a sensible or feasible option, it would be ludicrous to buy a bunch of diodes from China and wait a month for them, it wouldn’t add up, it wouldn’t be cheaper, why do it.
The way to get a functioning ‘high street’ is to prevent B&Q and suchlike from being so big and so nationwide and stop them from not being based in a high street, and also to prevent ordering crap from China from being feasible.
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Native Instruments issues a statement; likely closer to acquisition: https://cdm.link/ni-ma-update/@BorrisInABox@fwoof.space @pkirn@mastodon.social or Novation’s parent company
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The only thing that makes spam tolerable: amusing typos.@Tattie@eldritch.cafe
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor.@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place
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It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor.@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place and both activities used exactly the same tool!