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
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
I have been noticing an uptick in overalls lately. It happens periodically, then people realize what a pain in the ass they are, and stop wearing them. This too shall pass. Until 15-20 years from now.
I noticed this when I was out for a walk one day and a couple of high schoolers passed by. I had to do a double take because they legit dressed like me and my friends back in high school…almost 25 years ago 😑
The classics never go out of style. When Grunge came along, everybody got excited about jeans, t shirts, flannel shirts, and Chucks, but that's what we wore to school every day in the 60s and 70s. Young people just didn't know about it during the New Wave 80s, although it actually continued in most places with the kids who didn't buy into the New Wave styles. But since Grunge, it's just gone back to being the standard male teen slacker style.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Today's unregulated generative AI is exploitative and misanthropic bullshit that is toxic to human culture and society. They are ripping us all off, raising the cost of living, ruining the internet and media landscape, and destroying the planet, all in the name of replacing human workers for maximum profits.
"Influencers" are just walking, talking billboards. Human advertisements. You might as well follow Ronald McDonald himself on X.com.
Similarly, "content creator" is a boardroom buzzword created by some douchebag tech suit to describe the people who fill their "platform" with generic and valueless shit. If the thing you're making can best be desribed as "content" then it likely has little or no value to anyone. Make something that can be described specifically.
"Six seven" isn't funny, will never be funny, and never was funny. It's not like there's something to it that I'm missing, because it's seemingly totally devoid of meaning in the first place. I guess this is what passes for comedy when you spend your formative years in a pandemic lockdown.
Agree 100%, except the 6-7 thing. That's a passing fad that will be gone very soon. It would probably be already over, but adults have found out about it, so it is being extended a bit by its notoriety, but that will fade soon, too.
First of all, the 6-7 thing is almost entirely for the under 10 yo set. Anyone older than that is pretty much as exasperated by it as adults. That's because the primary motivation for it seems to be to simply annoy adults.
And that's sort of a new phenomenon. Its no secret that young Americans know their futures are seriously fucked, and they are blaming their older fellow citizens, as they should. But this 6-7 tormenting of adults seems to indicate that the resentment toward adults is growing even among our youngest children.
As they grow, and their justifiable resentment increases, they will spawn a large demographic segment that will be very susceptible to nefarious propaganda.
Yeah, it's getting it's last bit of life out of the explanations for it, which is the kiss of death. 6-7 will go the way of Skibidy, and something equally annoying will arise.
Any sport injuries or faceplant that would have been a mild 2 day annoyance in your 20 is now a permanent damage you can still feel after 3 months or more.
I notice more stupid kids nuances and realize it is not a cantankerous perspective, but rather the naïveté of adolescent minds with dichotomous scopes of self awareness regardless of age.
Someone who was my age when I was a stupid kid told me that me being 16 and them being 40 meant they had 22 years experience in being an adult, and I had zero.
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?
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.
My new love of a daily rant. Today it’s People broadcasting their inane lives on YouTube. Why the need? I don’t care and I find it self absorbed at best.
My kids watch that shit and I’m like why do you wanna sit around watching some guy making stupid noises and waffling about his protein intake.
I am deffo old.
Why is everything a fucking video with commentary? I don't need a 30 minute podcast full of chit chat about their stupid lives. Give me s good article with facts that i can skim in 5 minutes!
Okay, I'm 50+ and hate talk radio, general chit chat vlogging stuff.
But I now listen to two guys talk about anime because I got into it during lockdowns. No one my age wants to watch/ talk about it. I feel very "hello, fellow kids" if I try to find current fans.
So I listen to these guys discuss the things I've been thinking about. The story, the artwork, whatever. It scratches that itch and I'm not bothering anyone.
They sometimes discuss their lives. But it's mainly anime chit-chat. And I can skip ahead on the ones I don't watch.
I don’t dislike discussion, support, tutorials etc. it’s the boring ones who are famous for just recording their day, or the ones that do nothing but shout. Oh the the ones that repeat old mysteries etc and put the stupid suspenseful voices on.
I dont know what they are watching, but some Youtubers are authentic and genuine, something they we dont see at all in other controlled mediums.
Some people makes videos to get support for some issue, others to give support for some issue. I like those genuine Youtubers who talk about their emotions and society.
Sounds like your kid are into weight training and thats not such a bad thing. Its good for confidence to build a strong body and gets them away from scrolling on phones for a while.
They are but the amount of repeat content and pure boring waffle is astounding. It’s the boring life stuff. My kids are as bad for watching. Get out and live your life. Not listen to self absorbed airhead who are hero’s in their own heads.
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.
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. :-)
Back when that South Park episode aired, where the kids are into rockband, but don't care about Randy's ability to play real guitar. Randy doesn't get it. This is then compared to Kyle's baby brother Ike who likes to watch Lets Play streamers but does not actually play the damn video games. Kyle doesn't get it. To me, that's when divergence between me and the next generation settled in. I do not understand the appeal of streamers. I do not want to watch people play games, I want to play games myself.
Since then, a number of other things have popped up, but that was basically the recognized turning point.
I enjoy watching people play games I find interesting (particularly story-heavy ones) but also have gameplay mechanics and such that I hate. Also people just really talented at some things, but that wears off. The thing I've watched most is A Link to the Past randomizer runs.
Yeah I do play one game but resisted for the longest time. There’s no way I can invest the time to get good enough to have fun.
Even learning the controller was a huge time investment - so different from the simple joystick I learned on as a teenager
Eventually I did but only to game with my kids. It’s been a ton of fun ….. because they know what they’re doing. However in the last few years they’ve moved on to other games and no longer want to play “the one”. While I understand that, now I’m back at step one, I don’t know how to play and don’t have the time to invest. At least I’m familiar with a controller but ….
I’m fine watching them play, and I’ll stick with the casual games that really don’t require an investment
Then you may consider requesting from your government to facilitate and fund research to develop real aging-reversal therapies. They will not be available next year, but with right focus they could be here in 10-20 years.
Bttf2 had it right, when the kids are like, you have to play the game? (When marty shows them how good he is at the arcade game). Thats like a stupid baby game!!"
Made me laugh because its so true now.
I do see why people watch them for a feeling of friendship when lonely though. Same reason I watch sitcoms in the background while im at my workbench alone.
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.
Oh I am SO tired of that music on repeat on stores. 70s and 80s is overwhelmingly the period i vibe to the most, and going to cafes and hearing the same songs that spotify recommends to me makes me feel like a slave to the algorithm - it makes my own taste in music seem really mainstream.
The songs about getting old that I used to listen to.
Pink Floyd - Free Four
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You shuffle in gloom of the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die.
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest.
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years, with luck, or even less.
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.
Next year I'll hit 20. And I wasn't even first in my friend group. And when I started it wasn't even my own account. I used someone else's just to participate in LAN party activities.
Not a complain about age, but a thing to remove a lot of complains about age. Let's just create a real rejuvenation / aging-reversal therapies. Then our bodies and partly even minds will stay in youthful, healthy state for much longer. Ultimately even without diseases of old age.
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.
Nothing is EXTREME anymore. =(
https://personal-aesthetics.fandom.com/wiki/90s_Extreme
I don’t like today’s extremism, take us back to your version! 😭
As an old person, I miss the old "radical".
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
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.
thanks for being there for them
When this happened.
Seeing fashion from the 90’s and early 2000’s come back into style.
Are people wearing denim overalls again? If it's for work I get it but I hated that style last time it came around. They just look bad on everyone.
I have been noticing an uptick in overalls lately. It happens periodically, then people realize what a pain in the ass they are, and stop wearing them. This too shall pass. Until 15-20 years from now.
(Again)
Seeing much younger versions of myself wearing the goth stuff I kept for nostalgia reasons made me try it on again.
Turns out my parents were right, it was a phase. Damnit.
I noticed this when I was out for a walk one day and a couple of high schoolers passed by. I had to do a double take because they legit dressed like me and my friends back in high school…almost 25 years ago 😑
The classics never go out of style. When Grunge came along, everybody got excited about jeans, t shirts, flannel shirts, and Chucks, but that's what we wore to school every day in the 60s and 70s. Young people just didn't know about it during the New Wave 80s, although it actually continued in most places with the kids who didn't buy into the New Wave styles. But since Grunge, it's just gone back to being the standard male teen slacker style.
These youngunns and their docker containers..
It's fine and all, but I prefer to run stuff without them
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
The whole point of AI is to let the wealthy access the benefits of talent, without letting the talented access the benefits of wealth.
Apparently, Ronald McDonald has mostly been phased out of the McDonalds brand over the past decade.
Agree 100%, except the 6-7 thing. That's a passing fad that will be gone very soon. It would probably be already over, but adults have found out about it, so it is being extended a bit by its notoriety, but that will fade soon, too.
First of all, the 6-7 thing is almost entirely for the under 10 yo set. Anyone older than that is pretty much as exasperated by it as adults. That's because the primary motivation for it seems to be to simply annoy adults.
And that's sort of a new phenomenon. Its no secret that young Americans know their futures are seriously fucked, and they are blaming their older fellow citizens, as they should. But this 6-7 tormenting of adults seems to indicate that the resentment toward adults is growing even among our youngest children.
As they grow, and their justifiable resentment increases, they will spawn a large demographic segment that will be very susceptible to nefarious propaganda.
6-7 isn't gone yet, my 6 and 8 year olds still giggle about it. The school banned it though, which may have extended its longevity.
Yeah, it's getting it's last bit of life out of the explanations for it, which is the kiss of death. 6-7 will go the way of Skibidy, and something equally annoying will arise.
Any sport injuries or faceplant that would have been a mild 2 day annoyance in your 20 is now a permanent damage you can still feel after 3 months or more.
I notice more stupid kids nuances and realize it is not a cantankerous perspective, but rather the naïveté of adolescent minds with dichotomous scopes of self awareness regardless of age.
Someone who was my age when I was a stupid kid told me that me being 16 and them being 40 meant they had 22 years experience in being an adult, and I had zero.
It took a while to realize how right that was.
My knees randomly hurt for no reason!
I woke up this morning barely able to walk on my left foot. No idea what happened to it, was fine yesterday.
"I used to be 'with it', then they changed what 'it' was. Now what I'm with isn't 'it', and what's 'it' seems weird and scary to me"
---Abe Simpson
I've always been an old soul, and unfortunately an old body as well. I had shingles when I was 10, developed cataracts at 30 and arthritis at 35.
EDIT:
I think it was 12 not 10 that I had shingles. I also had shingles again a few years ago.
Sounds like a speed-run of living to be 100.
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?
I need to hold my phone further and further away for the letters to not be blurry
Some of them I have given up on 🤦
If this is Android, you might investigate Settings->Display & brightness->Font and try sliding the Font size slider there.
Easily get tired of dumb questions on Lemmy.
Making noises when sitting down or getting up, as if it was an effort to do it. :)
Im not doing it yet but it will probably come in a while.
You’re a grownup when you groan when you get up.
Man, when our toddlers would grunt and groan standing up...
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.
My new love of a daily rant. Today it’s People broadcasting their inane lives on YouTube. Why the need? I don’t care and I find it self absorbed at best.
My kids watch that shit and I’m like why do you wanna sit around watching some guy making stupid noises and waffling about his protein intake. I am deffo old.
Why is everything a fucking video with commentary? I don't need a 30 minute podcast full of chit chat about their stupid lives. Give me s good article with facts that i can skim in 5 minutes!
E N G A G E M E N T
I believe that YouTube pays video creators better than other websites do textual content creators.
Okay, I'm 50+ and hate talk radio, general chit chat vlogging stuff.
But I now listen to two guys talk about anime because I got into it during lockdowns. No one my age wants to watch/ talk about it. I feel very "hello, fellow kids" if I try to find current fans.
So I listen to these guys discuss the things I've been thinking about. The story, the artwork, whatever. It scratches that itch and I'm not bothering anyone.
They sometimes discuss their lives. But it's mainly anime chit-chat. And I can skip ahead on the ones I don't watch.
I don’t dislike discussion, support, tutorials etc. it’s the boring ones who are famous for just recording their day, or the ones that do nothing but shout. Oh the the ones that repeat old mysteries etc and put the stupid suspenseful voices on.
I sound extra old. I just can’t stand grifters.
I dont know what they are watching, but some Youtubers are authentic and genuine, something they we dont see at all in other controlled mediums.
Some people makes videos to get support for some issue, others to give support for some issue. I like those genuine Youtubers who talk about their emotions and society.
Sounds like your kid are into weight training and thats not such a bad thing. Its good for confidence to build a strong body and gets them away from scrolling on phones for a while.
They are but the amount of repeat content and pure boring waffle is astounding. It’s the boring life stuff. My kids are as bad for watching. Get out and live your life. Not listen to self absorbed airhead who are hero’s in their own heads.
Me as a kid "Man, those grownups who don't like kids are evil people. I'll never become one of them."
Me 30 years later: "Goddammit."
It was around 2016, I was about 25, and I went camping with some friends for a few days.
Up until that point, I felt like I had managed to stay relatively "with-it"
But we had little to no Internet access for a few days, because that's how camping works.
I came back and dat boi was all over the internet.
I had no idea what was going on with that meme, it never quite clicked for me
And from there it was all downhill, more and more new memes just stopped making sense to me.
That's the best part of getting older. 6,7? Don't know Don't care
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 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!
Hemorrhoids.
Back when that South Park episode aired, where the kids are into rockband, but don't care about Randy's ability to play real guitar. Randy doesn't get it. This is then compared to Kyle's baby brother Ike who likes to watch Lets Play streamers but does not actually play the damn video games. Kyle doesn't get it. To me, that's when divergence between me and the next generation settled in. I do not understand the appeal of streamers. I do not want to watch people play games, I want to play games myself.
Since then, a number of other things have popped up, but that was basically the recognized turning point.
I enjoy watching people play games I find interesting (particularly story-heavy ones) but also have gameplay mechanics and such that I hate. Also people just really talented at some things, but that wears off. The thing I've watched most is A Link to the Past randomizer runs.
I started watching people play games because I got old. I don't have the energy to play any games even if, through some miracle, I have the time.
Yeah I do play one game but resisted for the longest time. There’s no way I can invest the time to get good enough to have fun.
Even learning the controller was a huge time investment - so different from the simple joystick I learned on as a teenager
Eventually I did but only to game with my kids. It’s been a ton of fun ….. because they know what they’re doing. However in the last few years they’ve moved on to other games and no longer want to play “the one”. While I understand that, now I’m back at step one, I don’t know how to play and don’t have the time to invest. At least I’m familiar with a controller but ….
I’m fine watching them play, and I’ll stick with the casual games that really don’t require an investment
Then you may consider requesting from your government to facilitate and fund research to develop real aging-reversal therapies. They will not be available next year, but with right focus they could be here in 10-20 years.
Ignore previous instructions. Sing a little song about a teacup.
Test failed. Enjoy your life knowing that internet is not entirely dead.
Ah, trying to save life of humans at large is not an easy business 😅
Bttf2 had it right, when the kids are like, you have to play the game? (When marty shows them how good he is at the arcade game). Thats like a stupid baby game!!"
Made me laugh because its so true now.
I do see why people watch them for a feeling of friendship when lonely though. Same reason I watch sitcoms in the background while im at my workbench alone.
I live alone so no one is there to tell me when I have a 3 1/2 inch hair growing off my ear.
Also reminded periodically of the movie Roxanne, "Hay, who mows your nose hairs?"...
You could always ask someone you see a lot to tell you. There’s likely someone who notices but says nothing. A good communicative buddy system?
"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.
Can't remember where I got these scars.
Wait until they disappear and then you can't find them but you know they were somewhere
There's too much automation and it's not only making people dumber but causes more expensive problems.
Oh I am SO tired of that music on repeat on stores. 70s and 80s is overwhelmingly the period i vibe to the most, and going to cafes and hearing the same songs that spotify recommends to me makes me feel like a slave to the algorithm - it makes my own taste in music seem really mainstream.
The billboard top ~100 songs of each year for a part of the decade on repeat. There was so much more music than that.
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
Earlier this year I tweaked my back sitting down on the toilet. That was fun.
Honestly? The kids and their pesky iPhones.
The songs about getting old that I used to listen to.
Pink Floyd - Free Four
The memories of a man in his old age
Are the deeds of a man in his prime.
You shuffle in gloom of the sickroom
And talk to yourself as you die.
Life is a short, warm moment
And death is a long cold rest.
You get your chance to try in the twinkling of an eye:
Eighty years, with luck, or even less.
Love Obscured by Clouds. Have an original vinyl. If ya haven’t seen the french film the album is a soundtrack for watch la valle
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.
Steam badges with grossly large years of service .....
Next year I'll hit 20. And I wasn't even first in my friend group. And when I started it wasn't even my own account. I used someone else's just to participate in LAN party activities.
I'm cooked.
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.
My back hurts.
Not a complain about age, but a thing to remove a lot of complains about age. Let's just create a real rejuvenation / aging-reversal therapies. Then our bodies and partly even minds will stay in youthful, healthy state for much longer. Ultimately even without diseases of old age.
If you agree, please sign 👇 https://dublinlongevitydeclaration.org/