Well it has a place, I suppose. For me: I wasted a lot of time and effort farting around with config.sys and autoexec.bat getting drivers to load etc.
Could I sue for lifetime wasted?
Could I sue for lifetime wasted?
I loved tweaking AUTOEXEC.BAT so much that I created a front end menu shell which could be end user customised that at one stage became the de-facto program launcher for an entire state government here in Australia for a couple of years in the '80s.
The Greek roots of “nostalgia” translate as “the pain of returning home,” so it’s a false dichotomy. :)
And personally, I currently have a bad case of emacs configs.
I spent so many hours of my youth messing with that :) and this is one of those things where built up experience became completely irrelevant over time.