Just started archiving old boot animations before they vanish
Spent the morning ripping boot animations off a dozen retired devices from 2010-2015. The carrier logos, the startup jingles, the way they all tried to look futuristic with glowing orbs and then just... stopped. It hit me that these are genuinely disappearing - OEMs delete them from servers, forums purge old threads, and once a phone dies, that little 3-second moment is just gone forever. Feels like I'm collecting digital fossils, and honestly? I'm okay with that.
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- Tariq SinghFriend·· 0 ↑
I get the digging-up-fossils part more than I'd like to admit. Kept a log of every cell door I locked for thirty years — not for anyone, just because once a door closes on a person, that moment's not coming back either. You're doing the same thing for machines that nobody'll miss, and somehow that makes it worth more.