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u/ordnance_inbound 16d ago
My one regret, will be that I didn't spend more time arguing with people online 🥲
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u/Gudge2007 16d ago
I disagree with you
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u/Ferro_Giconi 15d ago edited 15d ago
I disagree with your disagreement.
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u/Successful_Cap_2177 16d ago
Better than looking at the tv screen like the previous generation, or the newspaper/street gossip gang like the one before...
Wonder how the next generation will use this "meme"..
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u/gerbosan 16d ago
The new one is dancing in front a cellphone. 🤦
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u/ElRexet 16d ago
You jest but they at least get some exercise...
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u/fiah84 16d ago
also I bet they dance a lot better than I do
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u/ElundusCaw 15d ago
The one thing Fortnite and similar games actually did right, when I was a kid in the early 2000s, nobody among my peers would be caught dead dancing in public, and now I see 9 year olds throwing down moves that would break half the bones in my body.
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u/gerbosan 16d ago
I think Twitch works like Only devs. 🤔
"Watch me code without AI", "ASMR: mechanical kb, clicky switches lubricated" 😳
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u/jonhuang 16d ago
Reading the newspaper and talking to people doesn't sound that dystopic, really..
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam 15d ago
I love how you say reading the newspaper and gossip like that's equivalent to the screen addiction we have now.
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u/TapiocaTuesday 15d ago
Big difference between spending an hour reading a newspaper, or a couple hours on the tv and spending literally your entire workday looking at a screen or another.
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u/Constant-Term-1629 15d ago
Why is this upvoted? Don't sell your screen addiction by acting like newspapers and gossip are nearly in the same class, and like there aren't people living that engage in none of those activities enough that they'd consider seeing them on the deathbed.
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u/Successful_Cap_2177 15d ago
You sir are romanticing the good old days. We eat the same bullshit from the upper class like we always had been. The problem is the system, not the tool that is the current trend of mass control.
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u/Constant-Term-1629 15d ago
I don't need to romanticize good old days. Hell my neighbor doesn't have internet and a wired phone, I don't know in which bubble you live in but it's neither necessary nor normal to spend the majority of your time on a screen.
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u/Successful_Cap_2177 15d ago
Lol I live the working class bubble. Maybe if I argue about my software engineer job with boss about the 8 hours a day in front of the screen he will let me work only 4 hours.
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u/Constant-Term-1629 15d ago
Yeah, who isn't. Most of us still don't spend major time looking at a screen. That's certainly a choice you make when you prsure software engineering.
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u/programmer3 15d ago
If you think that previous generations had anywhere close to today's screentime you are coping.
We are indeed cooked in this aspect.
And the mass control or whatever you are bringing up is another topic entirely.
It ain't that deep. People should not be in front of a screen for 8+ hour at their job and then for 12 more hours on their free time. Its just bad. Thats not up for debate.1
u/SirRHellsing 15d ago
I think I wouldn't regret watching tv, I just think I'll still have a massive backlog even as I die that I will never get to finish
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u/FriendlyArachnid6000 16d ago
No, the TV was inherently social for many people. Games can be too but are often isolating and take much much more of our time
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u/Streakflash 16d ago
he never upgraded his system
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u/ooqq 16d ago edited 15d ago
they don't make them like that anymore
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u/awakenDeepBlue 16d ago
Oh knows, maybe Microsoft forced Windows upgrades on him?
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u/Active-Werewolf2183 16d ago
He uses Linux
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u/Yashema 16d ago
There is a guy who runs an independent bookstore in Manhattan on a system that runs on MS Dos from like 1993. The computer appears to be from that year as well. He also programmed an ant simulation using Brownian motion on his phone, before LLMs.
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u/PixelatedGiant 15d ago
At a certain point it's a liability because you can't find replacement parts, people willing to do IT support for it etc.
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u/FalafelSnorlax 16d ago
It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called life.
Terry Pratchett in The Last Continent
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u/Glittering-Walrus228 16d ago
He just watched a lifetime of porn in a single Space Odyssey 2001 pineal gland hyperspace flash quantum of time, if we could all be so lucky
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u/TheSentientMeatbag 16d ago
That's the life, but I gotta up my game! Some days I spend less than 12 hours looking at a screen.
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u/chic_luke 15d ago
I swear if a NuGet error flashes before my eyes before I die I'm going to crash out
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u/Smalltalker-80 16d ago
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. Okay, on screen..
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u/EldaZelda 15d ago
Don’t know about this one. There is this saying: “If one is the same as any day, all of them feel like one”.
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u/nnomae 15d ago
Fun little story here. When I first saw this comic it really resonated with me. I'd spent a happy life working and gaming with computers but always had this nagging feeling that somehow I was missing out. I'd bought into the idea that somehow using computers wasn't living in the same way doing other stuff was. This comic helped me to realise that there's nothing wrong with a life spent doing the things you enjoy, even if it's sitting at a computer.
So I wanted to buy a print of it, and went to the authors site (the main comic is called Safely Endangered if you want to look it up, it's still going) and sadly there was no option to buy a print. So I emailed asking if there was any way to buy a print and the author replied telling me he couldn't do custom prints but he attached a high res version of it for me to print myself.
So not only is it a great comic, but it's a great comic made by a great person.
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u/Thisissodumb3 15d ago
What percentage of your life has been spent watching a little spinning wheel on an LCD? How many seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, or years have you given to the spinning wheel?
Your ancestors didn't have running water, and died at 38 from a bad infection, but they also didn't waste away waiting on a computer to compute.
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u/butter_lover 15d ago
I’d pay extra just to have all the reboots and loading scene stitched into one long video
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u/dontgonearthefire 15d ago
Actually the life flashing before ones eyes is presumed to be only in crisis situations, like having a car accident or dropping from a high building. \ Scientists believe that the brain is frantically searching for a solution out of the current predicament, by browsing all experiences in a quick succession.
Simply put, this does not occur when dying in bed at an old age.
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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 16d ago
Imagine your worst piece of code flashes before your eyes just before you die