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Conversely, I’ve seen some kids play with real pumps and they seem to find it incredibly fun when they realize that more and faster movement brings more water.Which is funny, because the first thing every single piece of software on this planet does, is disclaiming any and all liability for anything. We bought our first kid a rolling walker/phone thing with some other features—yeah, electronic crap, but at least this one had a volume setting, unlike many modern ones that are just fixed to "deafen your child" with no other options unless you break out a soldering iron. What sets it apart from a real computer is the fact it only does what manufacturer designed it to do. PVCs are highly toxic, and at this point there are many regulations to ban their use in plumbing, consumer goods, and especially toys because they are so poisonous. I know sometimes it's hard to resist the temptation, but I personally appreciate these foone threads getting posted here (as I don't really use Twitter much, so I wouldn't otherwise see them).

I know they have a Patreon because I saw it on their wiki[0] which I read through after seeing their death generator a few months ago. The original had you cranking up the record to play notes on a music box that was crammed into the "tone arm. The capabilities are there, but it's not what those devices are for any more than a toaster is a gaming PC just because you can hack it enough to get Doom to run. Even fast-food pizza—Pizza Hut's in fact way worse than it was even in the mid 90s (they've had at least two major reformulations of the sauce, for one thing, getting worse each time), but if you find a different pizza place that makes pizza around 90s PH quality it'll be 50+% more expensive.But really, though, I just kinda find foone's annoyance about being posted on HN to be annoying in and of itself.

One of the worse aspects of growing old is having to watch things previously done well and delivering genuine thoughtful value mutate into illusory branded trash done just well enough to fleece consumers. It's arguably the most grab-able music format (cassette tapes are a close contender) and it's a very visual and tactile way to experience music. A single instance of someone getting corrected for misgendering, but with no follow-ups or toxic discussion around it. The wind-up still turns the disc manually, but all it does is tell the speaker to play while turning.This new thing, though… it doesn’t even work very well, according to reviewers who complain about it just failing to spin, or failing to play music despite fresh batteries and a spinning record. What a thing it was to behold, an authenticity that the child in us could always appreciate and be impressed and moved by. The new one has much better sound quality and a flip-over semicircle that gives it two full circles of things to point to. With a turntable and a needle that replicates a vintage record player, this retro toy grows with your child as they develop.

I have an old phonograph cabinet and my toddler is always trying to turn the crank, then wants to be held up to see the record spinning while it plays. Personally I prefer deterministic systems over mysterious race conditions in concurrent code, so I mainly work in closed systems (desktop rather than cloud) with closed-form correctness criteria, and find and exterminate race conditions and unintended nondeterminism with prejudice (since I think heisenbugs are complex, fragile, nonlinear, and bad).

So the kind of liability they feel, I believe, is just that of getting bad press over some reviewers deciding something is too confusing, leading to reduced sales.