I’m kind of sick of being into tech. Everything is riddled with ads and speculative investment. You have to manage your expectations so much because everything has a good likelihood of turning into garbage at a moments notice. It’s just not fun anymore. I know I’m probably a bit nostalgia blinded, but I miss the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s so much. Games were new and interesting, tech was moving at a lightning fast pace, things were fun.
I know it’s more complicated than that, and there are reasons things are how they are, but fuck man. Anyway, off my chest.
You literally are walking around with a supercomputer in your pocket, with the entirety of human knowledge at your fingertips in a moment’s notice.
Stop expecting that you need to buy every shit new product, and literally just stop. Tech is fine, it’s the people who constantly get roped into ‘fashion tech’ that are the problem. Buying a new phone because if you don’t you won’t look cool, etc.
I got an Android phone from 2018, and it still works as good as ever. I still play modern games on a desktop PC, and uBlock Origin/Firefox means I never see a single ad. I don’t use applications with ads. You shouldn’t either. Start focusing on swapping yourself over to F/OSS stuff, and this world you’re so frustrated over – it goes away. Just stop consuming everything.
the entirety of human knowledge
That’s grossly overselling the Internet. Unless what you want to know is either in vogue, or makes someone money, there’s a solid chance you won’t be able to find any good information on it. God forbid you should want to learn about something which shares a name with a completely different, but much more popular, thing.
And speaking as someone who very specifically does NOT want the newest things, they try very damn hard to force it by constantly updating standards so older tech is no longer compatible/usable (2018 is not at all old in my books).
Wikipedia would be a good example against you argument. I can find out details of the reign of Caesar Augustus as well as how many valence electrons are on a carbon atom. Neither of those is in vogue nor particular money makers and I know exactly where to find the info just by searching Wikipediea. Additionally, all the sources are linked so I can go down a rabbit hole on any deeper version of the topic if I want.
You listed one of the most popular historical figures, by far, and some physics/chemistry, which I can assure you is involved in making enormous amounts of money, as someone in the nanotechnology field.
Try finding actually legitimate information regarding Tartaria.
I think we have more than enough apps/applets and hardware can keep going (especially VR/MR) and what I want now is integration, I want my google account to talk to my insurance company so I don’t have to process things manually. I want my banks to talk to each other to pay bills. I want all of my groceries tracked and my bank account create a budget for me.
Go off cuz it’s all 💯
1.a. Modern tech is awesome because you can basically get a device to do anything, just by sticking a CPU in it.
1.b. Modern tech is boring because you can basically get a device to do anything, just by sticking a CPU in it.
1.c. Modern tech is terrible because to get a device to do anything you need to stick a CPU in it.
2.a. Modern tech is awesome because you get updates which fixes bugs delivered straight over the internet.
2.b. Modern tech is terrible because you get updates which fixes bugs delivered straight over the internet, making it acceptable for companies to deliver a buggy product.
3.a. Modern tech is awesome because it just works!
3.b. Modern tech is terrible because it might just not work, and you have limited error information and even more limited tools to slove the issue.
4.a. Modern tech is awesome because we have so powerfull hardware that we can just power through complex problems.
4.b. Modern tech is terrible because we have so powerfull hardware that we have forgotten to optimize code, reducing the effectiveness of moderns computing power.
I feel like we’ve arrived at a low point of personal computing, whereas the arrival of the Amiga marked the high point. “Here, have some affordable hardware and software, we leave you alone to run wild.” And people did, resulting in amazing outbursts of creativity. Of the people, for the people. In fact, I’d liken it to the discovery of fire or writing.
Nowadays, computers are a lot more powerful, but they are not equally more empowering. Unless you think making or watching trite, interchangeable corporate puppet influencer videos is worthwile. Software is bloated, repulsive, intrusive, and you have to fight ads, upselling attempts and recurring fees on a daily basis. It appears to be a losing battle…
