My flatmate used to watch TV in the living room quite loud when I was trying to sleep in my room.
I set a Raspberry Pi with an IR led running an Apache server close to the TV. From my phone I would visit the Raspberry IP and send signals to the IR led to lower the volume.
Sometimes, you just love a device and don't want to use something new. I still shoot a 5DmkII, and there's really only one feature that is available in the newer models that I'd love to have on my older body (specifically number of focus points). I've used all of the models after that including mirrorless, but this older body still my fave.
So the 10 year old camera isn't that strange to me.
Fax machines are still regularly used for business purposes in Japan.
While uploading some trip photos at an Akihabara cafe in 2018, I noticed that my laptop at the time (a used Dell XPS from 2015) appeared significantly newer than the laptops of the other patrons. There were even a couple of integrated trackballs, which I haven't seen in a laptop since the late '90s. I also suddenly realized I was a bit under-dressed in a plain polo shirt and slacks.
Let's note has circular trackpad (It's traditional design, IMO it's bad now) so maybe OP mistook it for trackball. There's no laptop with trackball within a decade AFAIK.
Modern science differs from Middle Earth knowledge in having the willingness to admit ignorance. No scientific law, concept, theory or idea is sacred.
I don't think Middle Earth Christianity, Islam or whatever other premodern traditions of knowledge would agree in those two views. Everything that was important to know about the world was already known and written in the Bible, Qur'an or the Vedas.
How on earth there was going to be any secret of the universe yet to be discovered by mere immortals?
Middle Earth doesn't have Christianity, and indeed the books really lack any real discussion of religion. God exists and so do angels, but there are no clergy or real religious rituals.
It looks like your projects resonate with people, and more important, you are capable of putting them in front of many eyes. Which is even harder than writing code.
For that reason, don't seek the validation of VCs and figure out a business around it. Let your customers be your VCs.
I set a Raspberry Pi with an IR led running an Apache server close to the TV. From my phone I would visit the Raspberry IP and send signals to the IR led to lower the volume.