I grew up before playing snake on a phone. Anything good the world will rape till it’s evil. We can’t have good things. It’s not worth it. Shit look what happened to democracy.
Honestly the older I get the more I want to move off the grid and disconnect from all this mass marketed manipulation of the human species.
This is so true. I’m nearing 40 and becoming more and more frustrated with (mainly) horrible UI redos that move shit around every 6-9 months.
I can’t think of computers as tools anymore because every revision of their OSes just completely obliterates the muscle memory that I’ve built up from decades of using them.
Im not quite 40 but ive found myself going back to old computers and games. When shit was done, it was DONE. No constant updates and fiddling bullshit. And it didnt require a billion accounts, spyware apps, and constant internet connection to do anything.
I think about games today, kids wont be able to look back on any game they used to play because A. The servers will be shutdown, and B the game CONSTANTLY has massive re dos that change everything about it so nothing is static.
Thank the gods we have Linux at least. One of the few good things about computers left.
I got a new company laptop after 2 years with double the RAM, and it still takes ages to open powerpoint or any other program. And not just Windows: I remember a time where iOS was snappy and smooth, not laggy and bloated. Web also sucks, even with adblocker. I try to find movie tickets, have to click a million times through a mobile-optimized page, instead of getting an overview of the weekly schedule like 10 yrs ago.
One of the best things about my workplace is a lean, no nonsense custom software that integrates HR, controlling, and some other admin things in one place. It looks like it was developed by somebody over a long weekend in the early 2000s. But it’s fast and it works, saving me a ton of admin time every day as a team lead.
For what it’s worth, I’m sad that this had to be the way that the citizens of the United States found out what the rest of the world already knew, that their country is not a democracy.
I’d take a look at the UK and the EU’s Digital ID pushes. Canada is also fairly rough. It’s not just the USA, though that nation is certainly the worst.
UK is a close second with its Digital ID being required for work, crackdown on criticism of the UK/Israel, and locking down content deemed *undesirable * (porn, coverage of Ukraine-Russian war, coverage of Israeli atrocities in Palestine)
I grew up before playing snake on a phone. Anything good the world will rape till it’s evil. We can’t have good things. It’s not worth it. Shit look what happened to democracy.
Honestly the older I get the more I want to move off the grid and disconnect from all this mass marketed manipulation of the human species.
This is so true. I’m nearing 40 and becoming more and more frustrated with (mainly) horrible UI redos that move shit around every 6-9 months.
I can’t think of computers as tools anymore because every revision of their OSes just completely obliterates the muscle memory that I’ve built up from decades of using them.
Im not quite 40 but ive found myself going back to old computers and games. When shit was done, it was DONE. No constant updates and fiddling bullshit. And it didnt require a billion accounts, spyware apps, and constant internet connection to do anything.
I think about games today, kids wont be able to look back on any game they used to play because A. The servers will be shutdown, and B the game CONSTANTLY has massive re dos that change everything about it so nothing is static.
Thank the gods we have Linux at least. One of the few good things about computers left.
This is the worst! I can’t stand it when I open up some software and I have to click through some bullshit tour of new things I don’t care about.
It’s one of the reasons I’m happy I took the time to learn emacs. The UI has been consistent for decades and it works the same across all platforms.
It’s horribe, and getting worse every year.
I got a new company laptop after 2 years with double the RAM, and it still takes ages to open powerpoint or any other program. And not just Windows: I remember a time where iOS was snappy and smooth, not laggy and bloated. Web also sucks, even with adblocker. I try to find movie tickets, have to click a million times through a mobile-optimized page, instead of getting an overview of the weekly schedule like 10 yrs ago.
One of the best things about my workplace is a lean, no nonsense custom software that integrates HR, controlling, and some other admin things in one place. It looks like it was developed by somebody over a long weekend in the early 2000s. But it’s fast and it works, saving me a ton of admin time every day as a team lead.
We are switching to SAP next year.
Bro same, win 11 work laptop with an i7 and 64 gb ram and ssd. Absolute dogshit slow and freezes up daily.
My linux pc with a 15 YEAR OLD CPU and HALF the ram, runs 4x faster.
Also. Use kagi for search. Feels like 2006 again (peak internet age)
That dogshit is often an antivirus and other corpo surveillance processes…
My condolences :(
*What has happened to democracy so far
** In the United States
For what it’s worth, I’m sad that this had to be the way that the citizens of the United States found out what the rest of the world already knew, that their country is not a democracy.
I’d take a look at the UK and the EU’s Digital ID pushes. Canada is also fairly rough. It’s not just the USA, though that nation is certainly the worst.
UK is a close second with its Digital ID being required for work, crackdown on criticism of the UK/Israel, and locking down content deemed *undesirable * (porn, coverage of Ukraine-Russian war, coverage of Israeli atrocities in Palestine)