Oh good points! The scam shit wasn't really thought about as much.
Rhoerii
joined 6 days ago
I was teen too. I know some of it is nostalgia glasses, but I had fun. But unlike a lot of my classmates from that time, I don't think they were the highlights of my life.
Def fun tho, and I do think it was a simpler time. I think the 24/7 access to news and media and online bitching has made things a bit worse.
The world definitely was NOT safer back then, but we weren't shown it 24 hours a day. The doomscrollers on Lemmy actually have made even lemmy less cool that it should be. Back then bad news was just for 6 oclock news or newspapers. Rest of the time was spent fucking around.
So it was easier to just play around, hang out, and 1980's sci-fi books were awesome to read back then. Not everything was as dystopian as it is now.
Funny thing is, I am living that future. My gf was arguing with Alexa ai yesterday. I was cleaning out the robot vacuum cleaner that was filled up with some dog hair, and the computer I carry in my pocket as a phone is more powerful than any desktops back then.
But fuck all, it's not as fun as I thought it would be! And OMG the bitching and moaning I hear from people and online all the time.
WTF?! That's easily the most irritating thing about modern day. Give it a fucking rest and go out to a park and enjoy some trees and sunshine.
This is a good thing. You were all complaining about housing prices. Well, now they are going down. :)
Just like when Biden was in office and Democrat propaganda was everywhere. Well, things changes. That's ok, in 4 years, it'll change back again.
Every day there is new DOGE news and I am loving it! lol
He's looked dead for a while!
Yeah, the tech we have is nicer, slicker, and faster. Most just works until it doesn't, then buy another. But I keep feeling like I SHOULD be excited, but I'm not.
I legit and thinking of dialing it all back, going old school and just fucking around w an old computer that can hardly do anything cool.
I mean, that excitement almost came back with raspberry pi, but not it's pretty commercial. AI sort had that thrill, but now it's so good and so fast, the newness wore off.
I recently retired (early retirement), and thought what all my free time I was gonna do and learn all the latest tech. Um, no. Now I want to do old tech as the hobby. lmao