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Person born in the late 70’s here

Although birth of social media took a gigant shit on peoples general mindset and world feels more divided, right wing and missing “street level” empathy, world is still better.

For example in the 80’s autistic people were just mentally retarded, dyslexic people were just stupid, bullying in schools was normal behaviour and part of being young, violence among teenagers was more commonplace, attitude that animals were just biological machines with instinctual reactions and just appearance of some cognition was more commonplace. 80’s yuppie culture made it fashionable to be a wealthy asshole.

In the 90’s home computers became common. Recession had bankrupted many high rolling yuppies. Nerds were no longer beaten for knowing how tech works. Gamer culture was no longer niche phenomenon. Cold war was over and nuclear armageddon was distant thing. Youth culture still had this doom and gloom attitude. Everyone was a flannel wearing tortured skater boy/girl. 90’s was the “tomboy era”, where girls were allowed to dress and act like boys without being socially ostracised. More attention was focused on mental health and colorful spectrum of human mind.

Late 90s and early 00 internet really started rolling, smarphones started to appear, social media was born. World became very small and everyone who wanted was a content creator. Suddenly large portion of population communicated with people outside their country on a daily basis.

This was the best time in the Internet. Search engines started to actually work and new webpages were sometimes an actual joy. Algorithms weren’t corrupting things and polarizing everything. Autogenerated content was yet to come. Internet and social media was infused as essential part of our lives.

2010’s the enshittification started and commercialization was on full gear. 2020 has become the era of stupid, AI, autogenerated content, polarization and dead internet.

But even with all this, I still think it’s now better for the average person than the cold war paranoia world of the 70-80’s.

We are however on a downward spiral and I’m hoping for a counter reaction in coming decades. Hoping that ignorances of past world are just making noise and attracting attention before they vanish for good.

Harambre was a Human-gorilla hybrid thought to be impossible. He could speak and was planning to “spill the beans” about his origin.

Stock market is bullshit and value of things are just made up and manipulated?

At that point George’s writing and directing was so shitty, Jar Jar would have had an evil smirk or some stupid Sith one-liner that he repeated every 15 min.

A bit too dark tho

Calea Zacatechichi

I guess he got bored just using an aimbot.

+1

…although I would have taken the degoogled version if I had known what the latest android was like.

So far just too lazy to install custom rom.

Especially when they get IBS of bladder stones and go on a special diet that you can only get from a vet.

Do you also have a dry skin?

Got rid of my dandruff problem when I realised that I was sensitive to SLS compounds. Try to use non-sulfate products for a while.

… and I no longer need to use skin lotions on a daily basis.

True. For example lattepanda is not a bad option, if you don’t mind the price and availability is not a problem.

If somebody is inspired to get one, I’d recommend getting raspberry pi 500. The 400 is OK, but needs a hefty overclocking to run most robust webpages smoothly. It can still get a little sluggish on really bloated webpages, like using steaming services from a webpage.

Good thing is that you can overclock it quite far before you need to modify the default cooling setup.

I have a privacy oriented raspberry pi 400, that i use for my web browsing, banking, office, microcontroller and video conversion stuff.

Steam Deck is for games and 3d modelling and other stuff that rp400 might not have enough power for.

Steam Deck is mostly 90% on desktop mode mounted on a dock with external display, mouse and keyboard.

I keep my personal stuff out of Steam Deck because I don’t trust steam + games data gathering.

I allowed my son to scavenge my old desktop PC, because I didn’t need it anymore.

Only gripe is that Arduino IDE is shit on both Steam Deck and RP400, but so far Thonny and micropython has been adequate.

I’m surprised it doesn’t need a some dubious app.

Microwave death ray to beam it down could be fun.

Local residents metallic objects would shoot sparks every now and then.

I’d be more interested about the cable that is going to bring all that power to the ground level. With traditional tech that would weigh a shit-ton. Light weight generator would be easy peasy compared to that.

This is the way.

Ah, resident alien. How low did you go.

The mysterious “tits and ass” perioid, right before our machine overlords emerged.

Or useless old people will be turned in to a soylent green to feed the working meat slaves.