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Technology is kind of shit now (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 months ago by Baggie@lemmy.zip to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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I'm kind of sick of being into tech. Everything is riddled with ads and speculative investment. You have to manage your expectations so much because everything has a good likelihood of turning into garbage at a moments notice. It's just not fun anymore. I know I'm probably a bit nostalgia blinded, but I miss the mid-late 2000s and early 2010s so much. Games were new and interesting, tech was moving at a lightning fast pace, things were fun.

I know it's more complicated than that, and there are reasons things are how they are, but fuck man. Anyway, off my chest.

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[–] kitnaht@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You literally are walking around with a supercomputer in your pocket, with the entirety of human knowledge at your fingertips in a moment's notice.

Stop expecting that you need to buy every shit new product, and literally just stop. Tech is fine, it's the people who constantly get roped into 'fashion tech' that are the problem. Buying a new phone because if you don't you won't look cool, etc.

I got an Android phone from 2018, and it still works as good as ever. I still play modern games on a desktop PC, and uBlock Origin/Firefox means I never see a single ad. I don't use applications with ads. You shouldn't either. Start focusing on swapping yourself over to F/OSS stuff, and this world you're so frustrated over -- it goes away. Just stop consuming everything.