&gt;You&#x27;re being down voted for the shaming part but I thought I&#x27;d expand on your other points.<p>I figured, but in my defense, it&#x27;s supposed to be a benign statement. We&#x27;re a social species and being &#x27;shamed&#x27; and &#x27;pressured&#x27; into conforming is part of the contract (obviously within reason). Nobody runs around naked yelling obscenities partly because of social &#x27;shaming&#x27;. That&#x27;s all I meant, and I thought I qualified it sufficiently. Guess not.<p>&gt;I find it futile to try to justify that interest to others.<p>I don&#x27;t think you need to justify it. It&#x27;s a quirky hobby but completely benign and seems fun and interesting. I don&#x27;t have a problem with OP loving his Newton either, though if you put up a blog post extolling the virtues of the Newton over modern smartphones you HAVE to expect some eye-rolls.<p>&gt;this is not easy to do without sounding pretentious.<p>Yeah, though that&#x27;s subject to individual interpretation. For some, someone using certain words will be pretentious.