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ha, none of that will exist in your lifetime. i think youll be ok. is it that hard to just ignore the stuff youre not interested in?
Maybe it's aggravated by the fact that I do programming and the industry standard libraries constantly keep evolving each year. You're stuck perpetually playing catch-up.
yeah, im a full stack guy and im old and it sucks constantly having to learn for the job, but ya know it hasnt really changed all that much in the last 30 years. gen AI doesnt exist so its 'revolution' certainly isnt going to be pronounced before im retired.
im certainly not afraid of some predictive generation as its nothing knew, its just [much] better than it was.
you led with speaking with animals and virtual reality but that boiled down pretty quick didnt it?
Good luck ignoring social media nowadays. Whether you use them or not, you live in a society that does use them and you are impacted by its consequences.
And good luck trying to buy a new television that isn't "smart". Even cars are getting like that.
haahha ive been runnin BBs's since the early 90s, and currently running a fully federating fediverse implementation of mbin. im not scared of running social media stuff. doesnt mean i cant ignore garbage tech like any VR.
and i only buy retail displays that dont include an onboard OS. they cost more, but theyre always worth it.
cars? my 1980 toyota celica aint goin nowhere. i can rebuild the 20r in my sleep.
i hate some of the new tech, but im also not afraid to completely work around it. you do you though
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.