My back hurts.
“Now” is relative, right?
I’m 60, and the list is long, but I read /r/Teachers and seriously don’t get what’s going on in public schools now. I can say that public school was CERTAINLY better when I was a kid. Grades mattered, kids got held back (and other kids shamed them for it), no eating in class, turn your assignments in on time, stay in your seat, pay attention, and shut up. Apparently, none of that applies now?
And, don’t try to say “it’s Covid”. Yeah, it’s gotten a little worse since then, but this shit has been increasing since long before five years ago. Also, yeah, “parents”, but schools traditionally have been the place where kids got an education in spite of how dumb their parents were, that was the fucking point.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, there’s a cloud outside my window that needs a dressing down.
I don’t get TikTok or short form videos. They are mostly nonsense that just shortens the attention span of viewers. Or the trends and dumb challenges, like why does everyone just repeat the same thing as everyone else? Is it just to “be cool”? Because it’s not cool, it’s dumb, you just look like a stooge or a sheep. Or the ones where people mouth the words and put some movie line audio over it? Like wtf is that? It’s all so mind numbingly dumb!
Also, I don’t understand a lot of the music kids listen to these days. It started when I first heard dubstep, it’s progressed to a lot of the stuff that gets popular. Just give me some good old punk rock or 90s punk/pop-punk and I’ll be happy.
I actually hated Twitter when it came out for the same reason. Still hate it now.
I purposely only watch long form YouTube. The short form shit ia rotting people’s minds. I can tell my friends are getting dumber from it.
Then you look around at people who haven’t read a book (of any kind) in over 10 years and you see why society is crumbling from within.
100% agree and its like you took the thoughts out of my brain. The people I know who watch short form videos a lot have no attention span or patience. I agree that lack of reading, and IMO streaming services like Netflix, also contribute to this.
I’m very happy/lucky that my city has a pretty good reading community and lots of indie bookstores. I’ve become a lot more vocal about reading and books when I talk to people offline, even though most don’t read. I just want to encourage others to read, a lot of the nerdy shirts I used to wear have turned into indie bookstore shirts so I can advertise. I talk about my local libraries, again I’m lucky to have 4 branches I can access: 1 county and 3 city circulations. I encourage people to use the library for printing (it’s cheaper than that big corpo store you use and the money stays in your community), borrow books or movies, use digital services, and different book sales and musical events.
If I can’t do much in the big picture, I’ll at least promote as much as I can to help people I have direct contact with.
There’s too much automation and it’s not only making people dumber but causes more expensive problems.
Soda and juice is too sweet for me.
A lot of music in public spaces is too loud.
No longer understanding slang is normal.
There’s not enough hours (days) to decompress after a work day.
Soda and juice is too sweet for me.
And ketchup. How did anything be ever want something that sweet?
On the upside, anchovies on pizza got a lot more acceptable. I’ve had some more-mild anchovy pizzas that I’ve really liked, and can generally at least tolerate them. As a kid, I could never understand how adults could manage them.
Hell yeah: anchovies, marmalade, dark chocolate, bitter or sour anything really
I refuse to support or use subscription software, because back in my day we paid for software once and if we wanted a newer version we had the choice to just stew in our bug ridden version lacking the latest features forever and WE WERE HAPPY TO DO SO
I miss the days where you would actually own a copy of what you purchased. I also miss going to movie rental places.
Technology is stupid, things where better in the old days
Tech peaked around 2010 ish. Nothing after that is needed and is mostly to steal data for advertising and spying.
I’m pretty impressed with where active noise cancellation on headphones has gotten.
I can see that. I don’t like how they make the music sound though and much prefer open room speakers or open back headphones.
The spatial aspect of music is lost in headphones which is a bummer, because there can be so much dimension and emotion in it.
Side note, with ai being shoved in everything its very likely any new noise canceling is using ai and recording you and everything around you when you use it (see, webex and discord noise cancelling) and let’s be honest, its recording you even when youre not using it.
I can see that. I don’t like how they make the music sound though and much prefer open room speakers or open back headphones.
I get that and I do have some open back headphones too. That’s fine for a quiet environment. But if you’re wanting to listen to something in a noisy environment, your options are basically some form of isolation or trying to drown out everything else.
Ya for sure ! What closed back cans do you like?
For ANC, Sony’s WH-1000XM6. I’ve had people complain that I occasionally sound muffled when using it as a headset, though. The only other circumaural ANC headphones I’ve used are Sennheiser Momentum 4s, which have a lot of problems and I wasn’t happy with for other reasons. No complaints about being muffled, though. Other than that, all my ANC experiences have been on various earbuds, not headphones.
For non-ANC, just a passive closed-back circumaural, my favorite so far is a Beyerdynamic DT 770. It’s an old design, first got one back maybe in 2000, but it’s been comfortable and durable, and has decent passive isolation. I picked up another pair a year or two back, and that’s what I typically use at home, where I don’t need ANC, if I’m seated at my computer. It doesn’t have a detachable cord, but that’s really the only thing I’d complain about.
Can’t exactly use the DT 770 as an example of technology advancing, though, given context of the discussion here. :-)
But it’s true this time!
Brunch and Tea not breakfast, lunch and supper. Fucking love eating at 4 pm. What the heck? I still have to make supper for everyone else on weekdays but those 9pm meals are not my preference anymore, on weekends it’s late breakfast and the teatime meal and that’s it.
Woke up because I threw my shoulder out from rolling over wrong in the bed. Couldn’t fall back asleep because I was in pain. Couldn’t look at my phone easily because how how my shoulder hurt. Got up exactly with my alarm instead of sleeping in because I was bored and in pain.
54 and just this year my neck has started to look stringy, especially in bright sunlight. Ugh. At least I can manually fix the hairy ears.
It takes ages to recover from a bike ride… I’m too old for this shit now.
Also, life experience allows me to flag marketing bullshit easier and that make me want less and less tech
These youngunns and their docker containers…
It’s fine and all, but I prefer to run stuff without them
depends on your job role but for my job we have 1 project that’s not containerized and each time we have issues with it I want to crush my fucking balls
containerization is incredibly wasteful but it does solve some problems
How is it wasteful?
like flatpak. when you don’t build all your containers on the same base image and shared layers, then you’ll store lots of slightly different versions of the same libraries and other files, both on disk, and then in memory
I see. I was more thinking in terms of CPU/RAM resources where it’s far cheaper to just run a single process instead of a VM for it, etc.
but containerization does not use VMs. containers share the same kernel, but userspace and resources are separated with namespaces. it has a very little overhead
Yes that being my point. When you said wasteful I was thinking you were criticizing them vs VMS which makes no sense.
Even the duplication of layers makes little sense as one, storage is cheap and two, even duplicated they far more than make up for it without needing VMS per.
But then I also see you aren’t op who I originally directed the question to.
All of ours are containerised, but you can’t even dev in it because zscaler.
I was the same and then I rebuilt a server that originally took me forever to get up and running with all it’s weird requirements and had it going in docker in like 30 minutes with my old settings imported in.
I still compartmentalize individual programs into their own VM/CTs though, even when using docker.
Still have no idea how to package one together myself though.
Can’t code without a mouse. What the fuck does a mouse have to do with code! If I want to shoot nazis, I’ll go plug my mouse in.
Or if I’m coding a game that requires a mouse to play. Fuckin peeks and pokes. I miss my good old INPUT “What do?”, cmd$
I don’t like today’s extremism, take us back to your version! 😭
As an old person, I miss the old “radical”.
I remember renting Surf Ninjas on VHS back in the day. I would prefer not to think about how long ago that must be now.
Cant even find a good snow boarding game =(
I mean… There was 1080 & SSX. Can’t think of any others
Snowboarding Kids on the N64 was basically snowboarding meets Mario Kart. Was pretty fun. But SSX Tricky on Gamecube will always have a special place in my heart
When this happened.
67 did it for me. I tried to understand it and reflexivity said “well that’s fucking dumb” before realizing that’s literally the point. And we’ve all done anti-authority shit at some point. This random act of nothing is what a constantly surveilled generation does to elicit a reaction against a system that has proven it can ignore everyone.
I keep thinking of 67 as a cargo cult meme. You see the older gens making in jokes that just appear to be random words (when your not in on it.) So why not just take a random number and do the same?
