Its ridiculously easy! Get a hakko

Torn

I was going to comment this. Having super tech illiterate friends is painnnnnnn . they’re so bad with tech.

I feel very similar. Trying to get all old console games before they all get taken town , Minerva’s archive is already gone. I’m sure v1m is next.

I wish i know more how to get into data hoarder groups to share data. But how to make them trust you? That parts hard. I guarantee there’s lemmings out there with 50 tb nas full of every game known to humans.

They want to take it all away from us to charge us a subscription to play 30 year old games and enjoy any media. And when they kill search and websites, the only "internet " that will be available will be an llm chatbot search, at $50 a month for 100 prompts of course. 10 additional dollars per prompt.

And since llms killed any entry and junior coders, there will be no one left learning coding or anything to bypass this. As the old knowledgeable ones die off, the youngs will have outsourced all thinking to the gibbity. And you will own nothing.

I see zero way the future doesn’t become this reality. What a shitty future !

Tatoo on inside of butt cheek.

I feel the same. Same with backups. I have like 15 hard drives. Its so hard to do it all. Especially with ADHD and insane hard drive prices now.

Yeah, only when driving or playing with old radios. Or in my garage I leave it on.

Sadly radio reallllllly sucks now for the most part. Some late night DJs are cool and play interesting stuff but otherwise it’s junk.

Same thing with big cities. More people = more assholes and crime, and more expensive. More people moving into my town is destroying all the land (ripping out forests for row after row of shit apartments) all built by the same company. More crime now because of more people coming in.

Never understood the lemmy circle jerk for megaopolises. I’m sure its just because most have never been out of their 13 sqft apartment and don’t realize how awesome wide open spaces are. Sad really.

Agree.

I mean, you can still hop on gophernet and use http only sites with HTML only if you wanted.

If you stay off of the corpo sites, install mullvad, use a different DNS, use ublock with waterfox, also Usenet, somehow, exists still. you can still have a good internet experience. The bots haven’t totally poisoned it yet.

Now in 5 to 10 years, it will truly be destroyed by slop. And nothing left. Thats when us nerds will start having our own underground web thats difficult to access and unknown to many.

Example. The Dreamcast is back online. The community is full of true nerds because its too complex for a normie (but it’s really not that hard actually) to get them up and running.

Also use more open source software. Youll enjoy computing far more.

I agree, everything was truly better then and mostly sucks now, but hey we can at least make the best of it.

My hard drives have more than doubled in cost in 6 months.

Fuck data centers.

USA… Most of my friends over 25 have houses and are married.

Under 25, renting townhouses.

I’d say yes. I worked hard to be “that person” that people like and can trust and they know I’m knowledgeable in a lot of subjects. They can call me to ask questions anytime. They borrow my cars and tools. They dont take advantage of me though. Actually I wish they’d ask for help more often because I have a lot of things and skills to offer.

Mainly I just always wanted to be likeable. I don’t enjoy being mean.

Good good. Please more of this!! Shut it all down.

And now look how high $ CRTs are, even the low end ones.

I’ll never get rid of mine. You can’t get a 0 ms latency TV with zero “features” anymore. And those commercial TVs dont come with remotes. I never liked how flat screens look either. Laggy and awful colors. I’m sure a $3000 oled is great but no thanks

I also despise massive TVs so another win. People with 80" TVs in their living room are just ick.

Looks like a deal was reached

Yeah, there really should be required classes at least!!

Honestly it’s still way too easy to get a license. I know many folks who should not drive. They should all be forced to take a hpde course and also banned from installing Snapchat, ha

As if a 4th gen firebird is even a small car in the US! They’re long as fuck

Yep. People are too afraid to state the truths you just said for fear of being rediculed.

Not sure why people can “hate” dogs and its considered fine, but we aren’t allowed to dislike human children or youll get persecuted.

Big reason I hate family gatherings. Most people can’t think beyond their immediate situation (and by extension, create “cute” babies they can treat like dolls for 4 years while giving 0 thought to the fact that now its another person in the world that will die to climate change or work in a factory forever and never own a house)

Yep I’m selfish with my time. I like doing anything I want. I just won’t have a care taker when I’m old (but I also am not an ass that would want a child to do that anyway, seems evil)

I’ll gladly donate money to help out the unhoused, and Foss projects though! Because with no kids you have money to donate to things like that.