My personal solution was to just drop computers/tech as an major interest, and find some other hobby. I found language learning to be a good alternative, because:

1. You may be able to use it professionally.

2. It might be useful when traveling.

3. You can meet interesting people from various parts of the world and very often for free (language exchanges (online or not), playing video games, etc.).

4. You are able to absorb other people’s massive culture, that might not be popular in your part of the world.

5. You might impress some people with language skills, if you care about that.

6. It is good for your brain.

7. It is fun.

As for computers, I mostly use them as a tool nowadays, and occasional video gaming and YouTube watching. I mostly don’t care about AI, or any other technological marvel that isn’t proven yet to be useful, maybe except AR and VR which I still hope will be a big thing in the near future. Especially AR.

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Does that take into account that AI models will become more efficient with time?

Yes, thanks captain obvious for telling me that.

Are you fucking kidding me. I already can’t see shit at the maximum brightness, when I am trying to use my phone under the sunlight.

That would be Minix 3, I think, because it runs in (yes, in) all modern Intel CPU’s.

I don’t understand ads. Do people actually use services and buy products because of a shitty advertisement?

I remember hearing that there was a similar concept in Soviet Union at some point, when normal citizens worked collecting fruits or something like that.

There are no actual worms in the universe, only bunch of atoms.

I am amazed that people still use Xitter.

Doesn’t installing Linux on a Mac make it more usable though? Especially when using older Mac, that isn’t supported anymore.

It definitely is better, but it sill has some stupid quirks that in some cases could probably be fixed by few lines of code, like not locking the screen when you are on the lyrics screen. It also is very slow to start-up in offline mode, which drives me nuts. But otherwise it is much better performant than Spotify and has better ways to listen to new music, instead of the dumb intelligent randomize feature on Spotify.

So what do you recommend, Siberia?

That’s interesting, here in Poland you pay ~$12 for the family plan.

I didn’t know it was that expensive in US. That sucks, man.

I can think only for one legitimate reason:

• Google bought out YouTube and operated it at loss for most of its life, effectively making it a monopoly in the process, and only started to earn money on it when there was no way any other alternative would come up and endanger it.

If you ignore this, YouTube Premium is a pretty good offer. And I personally like the fact that I support content creators, without the need of watching ads that are nothing more than cancer for society.

That said, I would still prefer YouTube to return to its roots and separate from Google, since it’s pretty much possible for it to stand on its own right now, I guess.

Not sure who that is, but great 👍

Who even buys shit because of ads?

I once did double “parentheses” in speech when started doing streaming year ago, lol.

If you think that if you cannot count a minor version number from from fingers and toes, and it is meaningless anyway, why not drop the current versioning system entirely? It would be fine if it was (major version).(patch)

Stuff likes this me think that modern technology is glued together random shit that somehow works, or at least as long as you are using your phone like a zoomer or a normie which only scrolls Facebook. The moment you do something that is not done by >90% of users, you will only encounter random fucking bugs and freezes (although these also happen when normally using an app, see YouTube Music in which it takes forever to load the library while offline completely making downloading songs completely useless).

I have a moderately new mid (mid-high?) range phone (from 2021) and it’s crazy how often software freezes or just glitches the fuck up, despite of running on a device that’s probably millions times faster than a computer used to launch people to the fucking moon. In no period of history the technology was so unresponsive as nowadays. I think it just went worse from mid 2010’s (or maybe even earlier) onwards.