Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)

“Sub-grift-ions”, a lesser writer might have titled this

There is something sublime about low tech gadgets. An analog camera, a magnetic compass, a record player, a number 2 pencil, a swiss army knife, a skateboard. Tactile controls are royalty because they control something real. A shot from my Minolta XD-5, a film camera I recently purchased cheap on eBay. A certain subculture of the modern internet grasps for the simplicity and analog nature of times passed. You can spot it around the internet in places like Low Tech Mag, or on BIFL, or archivists saving music to their local disk, two-stroke fanatics, off-grid folks, woodworkers, frugal buyers, the list goes on and on.