Its not the smartphone. Its corporations and social media. The tech has the ability to make people insanely smart. Capitalism and the far right wont allow that.

When I was a kid I loved tech, had a bunch of computers, read tech books, tried to take apart and break or fix stuff. Install tons of ridiculous software to see what it did. Now I don’t think kids have true tech interest. They are handed a phone and they let the zucc tell them what to do/buy/date/say. Gross. Poor young people today.

Im not even old. But I guess get off my lawn or whatever, Kewl.

I am Canadian at heart

Sadly an s23 but im saving this link, thanks!

I have a Samsung sadly

I hate that my phone is held hostage. My computer is free thanks to linux, it just sucks theres few linux phones that work in the US.

The second that valve goes public and gets horribly enshittified , it will grow exponentially.

This is actually not true at all for me. My music tastes completely evolved and still are evolving. Sure, if I listen to some 08 pendulum I feel some nostalgia, but I also feel nostalgia for 2112 in the same way. I think music is a comfort food for a lot of people so they never stray from what they know, which is fine. But there’s so much out there to find.

Hmm, no, but you could get really really good at trucking or farming sim or bus sim and apply those skills to real life. That is something people have actually done.

See, I have this exact way of thinking. Using a child’s toy is not something to brag about yet they try to set it as a goal at work. Its so fucking backwards.

Cloudtobutt 2.0

I think you’ve cracked it. My mind overthinks everything in detail so automatically, that there’s no way AI right now can keep up. Modern computers (with windows and work-spyware installed) are hardly fast enough for the amount of tasks I always have open at once. But I know a good amount of dumb people who treat the llm like a god and don’t understand why they still get shit wrong, because they could never fully think for themselves in the first place.

This comment sounds assholeish but I am honestly just describing my day to day. Obligatory FuckAI.

One of us one of us one of us

Yay late stage capitalism

Same story here! Im in love with computing all over again because of it. Too bad many are tricked into thinking Microsoft ia the only option.

Yep I agree!

Or Lyme disease. Makes people crazy for life.

Its very common. The individual thinker will be dead soon.

Its very common. The individual thinker will be dead soon.

Yep, it’s very common. I can’t fathom the idiocy. Its driving me nuts.

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