I can get on board for all this “you have become what you hated” fun poking.
But let’s be real. And I won’t be alone in this because Lemmy is loaded with tech folks who probably spent a lot of time sitting at a desktop computer in their younger years. I submit the following:
My parents staring at facebook on their phone all evening is an objectively worse activity than teens/20s me sitting at a desktop computer doing 20 different things all evening. One just might turn you into a software engineer or IT professional and the other just might turn you into a drooling nazi.
I think it’s stupid when we say that “brainrot” is new. we always had it. but the amount and availability is out of proportion.
I’m 2000s we got some random badges viral video once a month or two. now? you can enjoy non stop brainrot slop 24/7.
in 2000s I learned so much from the internet, between slop there was so much good stuff. now? I don’t realise I spent 6 hours scrolling and learned absolutely nothing.
I can get on board for all this “you have become what you hated” fun poking.
But let’s be real. And I won’t be alone in this because Lemmy is loaded with tech folks who probably spent a lot of time sitting at a desktop computer in their younger years. I submit the following:
My parents staring at facebook on their phone all evening is an objectively worse activity than teens/20s me sitting at a desktop computer doing 20 different things all evening. One just might turn you into a software engineer or IT professional and the other just might turn you into a drooling nazi.
Yep. I’ve never seen anything good come of scrolling TikTok.
Playing TF2 on a shitty computer forced me to get creative, squeeze every last drop of performance out of my system.
Playing Gmod taught me programming, maths, and introduced me to a lot of friends.
I think it’s stupid when we say that “brainrot” is new. we always had it. but the amount and availability is out of proportion.
I’m 2000s we got some random badges viral video once a month or two. now? you can enjoy non stop brainrot slop 24/7.
in 2000s I learned so much from the internet, between slop there was so much good stuff. now? I don’t realise I spent 6 hours scrolling and learned absolutely nothing.