un-biden

VGA is the Boomers and HDMI is the Millenials. Gen-Z is using USB-C.

There are some platforms like World Packers where you receive free food and a bed for helping out in places. But I guess that still doesn’t cover travel, insurance, debt, and any other long term payments you might have to make

Yeah. I have several quotes on my desktop which I’ve written to try to counteract my perfectionism, and one of them is

• Live tomorrow’s plan, today.

And another one is

• Sign up now, cancel later.

Welp, as long as they haven’t kept coming undone for those 50 years I guess it can’t have been that wrong…

I’m a perfectionist and I realized I’ve been making life too hard for myself. Choosing a low bar for success but keeping the ceiling high has felt like a much healthier approach.

Definitely agree with this one

Dating lol

I think that something like the internet archive – where the body of data is too large and important to store in one place – is where using a federated framework similar to Lemmy might make a lot of sense. What’s more, there are many different organisations which have the incentive to archive their own little slice of the internet (but not those of others), and a federated model would help in linking these up into one easily navigable, and inherently crowd-funded, whole.

It’s only a ‘wrong answer’ because people here downvote on an ideological basis. If it works for you, then it’s okay 👍

people are not using it to do better. They are instead outsourcing their own thoughts and imagination

Exactly, technology is eating society instead of society being contientious about its use of tech. I believe that the pendulum will eventually swing back and people will start to ration their use of technology, but until that happens, opting out will remain really hard and I don’t know how to work with that…

And yes, I agree that much of the ‘progress’ has been solutions to problems people didn’t know they had. (But this is only tangentialy related to my problem.)

Exactly. It’s not ‘progress’ and yet oftentimes you’re forced to go along with it.

Ahh true

You honestly sound like the old fucks

I do, and that’s what concerns me. Because I’m only in my 20s. I could disconnect for a while, but I’m always going to have to return to society, whose constant changing caused this fatigue, eventually.

I think the thing that’s causing me the fatigue though is the constant change. For 000s of years people lived their whole lives with no technological change, whereas I’ve only been here for 2 decades and yet the world already works much differently than it did back then.

This is just the journey we’ve been on since the Industrial Revolution where the market decides what our new environment is for the sake of profit.

Well said

That’s the problem. Even if you want to be a Luddite, you have to do all the work for that yourself, because the entirety of society will be trying to pull you in the other direction :-/

Say you want the only computer you use to be an 80s computer: you can’t, because everything is online now. And society has since removed the adaptations that it had back then to an computer- and internet-less world.

The thing many people don’t even need their fridge to be smart in the first place

The Amish are a good point. Unfortunately being a Luddite gets quite logistically hard of you still want to be part of society

I don’t want my refrigerator connected to the internet

Yep

Try to buy a tv that isn’t a fucking smart tv, you just fucking can’t anymore.

This is what I’m on about, resisting is a loser’s game, even if you try it gets too hard :-(

what’s getting thrown at the wall.

Ah, well noticed. Yeah I guess a lot of the smart toasters etc is just the industry throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. You just reminded me how quickly 3D TVs disappeared after appearing.

Our lives do not need to be curated and polished into some technicolor madness.

Tell that to society 😩

But yes, we are definitely on the same page.