Played Sega gt 2002 on my (real) XBOX the other day. So fun.

I think its best to ignore they ever made anything else.

So much malicious code going on to piss us off and force compliance. And normies have no idea this is a thing.

Gross.

Thankfully our management is wary of slop bots (though they allow use of it in scenarios where you aren’t inputting data. Which is like every scenario soo, its useless) This however upsets the Young’s that think everything should be done with slopbots (spoiler, their work is shit)

You are correct. Explaining our server vs onedrive/teams/SharePoint is a losing battle with most of their eyes glazing over if you try to explain.

Thats great! I’m amazed at companies that would allow this. I cannot imagine ours doing it. Our IT dept hardly knows what Linux even is.

Theres no algorithm lol

If only managers/IT could see how amazing Linux is.

The productivity gains I’d have from the speed of Linux on my work machine would be noticeable. Plus my mood would greatly improve.

Windows (especially slop 11) cannot handle how much I do at once. My brain is faster than the computer now 😅

Love it!!

Very true.

Theres no innovation any more. We basically saw the peak in the 2000s of innovation. It is now solely driven to suck us dry of every cent and steal our data to sell it back to us on a subscription model.

Vr is one fun new tech though. Its also not new, we had vr in the 80s. It was awful ofc.

This is a strawman argument, and not really related to “ai” in any way.

If i was going to twist this to relate to sloperators though, in your analogy it would be akin to hiring either an old school plumber using hand tools who gets the job done with no leaks, vs a 16 year old kid with a full Milwaukee toolset thats never done a job without causing Significant leaks and damage to clients homes and the businesses reputation.

Again, its not a good comparison either way.

Ahhh I see. you are speaking of the electronic bleep blorps! Yeah, I mean electronic one could argue started in the 70’s as well but yes.

Also I’m not sure that hardware was ever that low priced. Good hardware has always been spendy. But anyone could still make that music today if they wanted to . The synths are still around. Propellerhead reason is still out there for free if you wanted.

I’m confused at this comment, but recorded works have been around since the 1800s.

“Modern” techniques started in the early 70s for recording and multitracking.

I’m a little scared if you think 2000s is classic. Its also one of the worst sounding eras in music history because of digital brickwall limiting.

Random example of a 2005 song that could have come out yesterday and would sound right at home with its amount of limiting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulI2pN-h4Nw&t=148

Oh you’d hire the one installing lead pipes and eating asbestos sandwhiches while drinking round-up? Because corporations told me none of those are bad.

Once those who stole all human knowledge and art with 0 repercussions with the intent to sell it back to us either pay every human on earth 100,000 dollars or more, or relieve their ownership of the companies and all land and data centers that go with it, and also make it illegal to use for law enforcement or any surveillance, then it can be used for specific scenarios if needed.

Oh that won’t happen ? Burn it down.

I always see this stuff and really it has nothing to do with age. I think its the kid or parents interest in teaching and learning. When I was 9 I knew what an 1899 Victrola was (and no, despite my steam profile, I wasnt born in 1901). I knew what typewriters were and had a couple. I knew what a john Deere single row plow was.

I’m not really a history buff though. I just figured throughout life that we should know about things that came before us. I keep learning more about old things and some new things daily.

I think its just ignorance. If you are 13 today and seriously dont know what a CD is, thats just idiocy. maybe if you dont know what a cassette is I’d get it, but still. Its not hard to learn.

Yeah I get that. “Old” to me is maybe around the 80s. I grew up around a lot of 80s stuff.

The music i listen to (since I was little ) is usually 60s through 80s, because those are the records I had. Some 90s and select new indie artists now too.

An “old” car is a 1969 chevelle. A 1991 f 150 is not an old car. The Xbox 360 is new. Etc. I regularly drive a 30 year old car and notice nothing I want or need (also I hate new cars but separate issue)

A huge thing about this is the tech. We went through insane technical revolutions in a super short period of time. Kids now dont have that. GTA 5 is how old, 14 years?

Tech basically peaked in 2012. Nothing has really been improving or groundbreaking for the common person since then. I think thats why when I think of 2012, I think oh yeah bout 4 years ago huh.

I mean my 2010 macbook still works perfectly. My 2001 windows 98 laptop, not as much.

Spelled eat wrong.

We can only hope for an Anonymous level sabotage group.

Very true!

I dont believe its a theory. Its absolute fact. Why else would they be requiring cameras in all cars next year, and putting flock cameras all over every city? That surveillance data needs to be stored and sorted through. This is the real reason for the massive push of data centers and bribery of politicians.